Muggles Quotes

• The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

  J. K. Rowling

  Wizards, Misfits, Outcast

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• Don't let the muggles get you down.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hogwarts, Magic Harry Potter

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, p.15, Pottermore

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• Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

  Michael Grant

  Wizards, Let Me, Raised

  Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hate, Death Eaters, Blood

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• What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

  J. K. Rowling

  Exactly Is, Ducks, Rubber

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• A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sweet, Kind, Lemons

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• Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!” said Hermione. “We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —” “What’s that, an illness?” asked Ron.

  J. K. Rowling

  White, Snow, Stories

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• My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stupid, Parent, Hogwarts

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• Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?

  J. K. Rowling

  Cutting, Doctors, People

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• Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can’t see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself — soul-less and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Air, Long

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• You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational Harry Potter, Potters, Hogwarts

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

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 12 (1997)

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• [Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

  Michael Grant

  Real, Interesting, Parent

  Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• How come the Muggles don’t hear the bus?” said Harry. “Them!” said Stan contemptuously. “Don’ listen properly, do they? Don’ look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don’.

  J. K. Rowling

  Looks, Said, Bus

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, p.36, Pottermore

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• He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Eye, Dark

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• Harry Potter, he sends a message on Owl Mail while us poor old muggles have to make do with instantaneous emails and texting. Oh, if only we could be like you Harry Potter, with your four day owl delivery!

  Craig Ferguson

  Owl, Email, 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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• Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Reality, Long Ago

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• Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods.

  J. K. Rowling

  Garden, Thinking, Fishing

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• Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

  Dave Beard

  St Patrick

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• Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Taken, Imagination

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• Let muggles manage without us!

  J. K. Rowling

  Manage

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• And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, Trying, Pals

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• When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?

  Paul Waldman

  Growing Up, Kids, Adults

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• I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Years, Use

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