Memorable Harry Potter Quotes

• You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

  J. K. Rowling

  Greatness, Doubt, Way

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• We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Choices, Inspirational Tattoo, Potters

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• You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style.

  J. K. Rowling

  Style, Deny, Ministers

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• Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Lying, Greatness

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, People, Inspirational Harry Potter

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• Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

  J. K. Rowling

  Three, Four, Pages

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• Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dobby, Potters, Harry Potter Movie

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• Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dobby, Potters, Harry Potter

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• The ones that love us never really leave us.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memorial, Potters, Harry Potter Movie

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• Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

  J. K. Rowling

  Butterfly, Funny Harry Potter, Spiders

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• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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• Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humble, Magic, Opinion

  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Potters, Harry Potter Birthday

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• We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Inspirational, Dark

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• ... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Silly, Potters, Harry Potter Movie

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• Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Death, Inspirational Harry Potter

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• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Friendship, Courage

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

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• We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Encouraging, Battle

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• We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fun, Gone, Potters

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trust, Halloween, Technology

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Our Words, Sometimes

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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