Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

— J.K. Rowling

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

— J.K. Rowling

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.”“Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

— J.K. Rowling

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

— J.K. Rowling

You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You should have said it was really annoying, but I'd made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn't want to go, you'd much rather spend the whole day with her, but unfortunately you thought you really ought to meet me, and would she please, please come along with you, and hopefully you'd be able to get away more quickly? And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am too,' Hermione added as an afterthought.' But I don't think you're ugly,' said Harry, bemused. Hermione laughed.

— J.K. Rowling

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do, so boys can understand them.

— J.K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

— J.K. Rowling

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

— J.K. Rowling

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

— J.K. Rowling

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry." No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

— J.K. Rowling