Favorite Lines (Deathly Hallows Spoilers)

Since we keep dropping them, I thought I'd try to collect those quotes and passages I find especially meaningful, moving or funny. I'll go back and add more as I think of them...

"He died as he lived: working always for the greater good and, to his last hour, as willing to stretch out a hand to a small boy with dragon pox as he was on the day that I met him." - Elphias, 20

"We're leaving soon, really soon. And then you'll be able to fly again." - Harry, 36

"The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt." - Rowling, 21

"I don't think you're a waste of space." - Dudley, 40

"Take care, Big D." - Harry, 42

"Well, that's that plan scuppered." - George, 49

"Wow - we're identical!" - Fre and George, 51

"Harry, your eyesight is really awful." - Hermione, 52

"I'm George. Can't you even tell us apart when we're Harry?" - Fred, 52

"I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there. That's Voldemort's job." - Harry, 71

"For the first time since Harry had known him, Fred seemed to be lost for words." - Rowling, 74

"Pathetic. Pathetic! With the whole wide world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?" - Fred, 75

"We've got to trust each other." - Harry, 80

"Harry, he's taking over the Ministry and the newspapers and half the Wizarding world! Don't let him inside your head too!" - Hermione, 85

"Oh, of course. I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library." - Ron, 95

"Wendell and Monica Wilkins don't know that they've got a daughter, you see." - Hermione, 97

"Oh, well, lucky we've got such a large supply of basilisk fangs, then. I was wondering what we were going to do with them." - Ron, 103

"I open at the close." - Snitch, 134

"Harry looked up, diverted. The circumstance of Ron having read a book that Hermione had not was unprecedented." - Rowling, 135

"When I get married, I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like, and I'll put a full Body-Bind Curse of Mum until it's all over." - Fred, 138

"Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today - perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish - do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!" - Xenophilius, 140

"...and your hair's much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra. Merlin's beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet." - Muriel, 141

"While her radiance usually dimmed everyone else by comparison, today it beautified everybody it fell upon." - Rowling, 144

"'I like this song,' said Luna, swaying in time to the waltzlike tune, and a few seconds later she stood up and glided onto the dance floor, where she revolved on the spot, quite alone, eyes closed and waving her arms." - Rowling, 147

"Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?" - Viktor, 150

"Don't believe a word of it! Not a word, Harry! Let nothing tarnish your memories of Albus Dumbledore!" - Elphias, 152

"You're amazing, you are." - Ron, 162

"She had made her 'g's the same way he did: He searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil." - Rowling, 181

"Of course, Voldemort would have considered the ways of house-elves far beneath his notice, just like all the purebloods who treat them like animals... It never would have occurred to him that they might have magic that he didn't." - Hermione, 195

"The house-elf's highest law is his Master's bidding. Kreacher was told to come home, so Kreacher came home..." - Kreacher, 195

"What do wizard wards mean to an elf like Kreacher? He's loyal to peole who are kind to him... I've said all along that wizards would pay for how they treat house-elves. Well, Voldemort did... and so did Sirius." - Hermione, 198

"I'm pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you aren't sticking with your own kid, actually." - Harry, 212

"Shoes off, if you please, Master Harry, and hands washed before dinner." - Kreacher, 224

"Merlin's pants!" - Hermione, 226

"Who are they expecting to turn up, Harry Potter?" - Ministry wizard, 241

"With a twinge of regret that had nothing to do with food, Harry imagined the house-elf busying himself over the steak-and-kidney pie that Harry, Ron and Hermione would never eat." - Rowling, 271

"Hermione was watching Ron fret over the fate of the Cattermoles, and there was such tenderness in her expression that Harry felt almost as if he had surprised her in the act of kissing him." - Rowling, 274-5

"Was it his own blood pulsing through his veins that he could feel, or was it something beating inside the locket, like a tiny metal heart?" - Rowling, 276

"My mother can make good food appear out of thin air." - Ron, 292

"We take no sides. This is a wizards' war." - Griphook, 296

"I mean, the Weasleys don't need any more of their kids injured, do that?" - Ted, 299

"'Please' always helps." - Phineas, 301

"Neville is not an idiot and Luna is not an oddity!" - Harry, 302

"Hagrid's not an oaf!" - Hermione, 302

"Harry, did you ever even open A History of Magic?" - Hermione, 318

"The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this oment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him." - Rowling, 321

"Harry, I think it's Christmas Eve!" - Hermione, 323

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Ariana's tombstone, 325

"It doesn't mean defeating death in the way the Death Eaters mean it, Harry. It means... you know... living beyond death. Living after death." - Hermione, 328

"Where's my wand?" - Harry, 348

"For the Greater Good" - Dumbledore, 357

"They were the same age we are now. And here we are, risking our lives to fight the Dark Arts, and there he was, in a huddle with his new best friend, plotting their rise to power over the Muggles." - Harry, 361

"Help." - Harry, 368

"Well, I've - you know - I've come back. If - You know. You still want me." - Ron, 372

"She's like my sister. I love her like a sister and I reckon she feels the same way about me. It's always been like that. I thought you knew." - Harry, 278

"Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it was. I've been trying to tell you that for years." - Harry, 379

"Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?" - Hermione, 383

"Bill told Mum he and Fleur weren't going home for Christmas because they wanted to spend it alone. I don't think Fleur minded. You know how much she hates Celestina Warbeck." - Ron, 397

"Yes, because we really need a bit more fear in our lives." - Harry, 407

"It was only when he had attained a great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son. And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed from this life." - Beedle the Bard, 409

"Luna has told me all about you, young lady. You are, I gather, not unintelligent, but painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded." - Xenophilius, 410

"But that's - I'm sorry, but that's completely ridiculous! How can I possibly prove it doesn't exist? Do you expect me to get hold of - of all the pebbles in the world and test them? I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!" - Hermione, 411

"The three of them spoke at the same time; Hermione said, 'the Cloak,' Ron said, 'the wand,' and Harry said, 'the stone.'" - Rowling, 414

"Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends... friends... friends..." - Rowling, 417

"They took my Luna." - Xenophilius, 419

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." - Kingsley, 440

"'The Boy Who Lived' remains a symbol of everything for which we are fighting: the triumph of good, the power of innocence, the need to keep resisting. ... I'd tell him we're all with him in spirit. And I'd tell him to follow his instincts which are good and nearly always right." - Remus, 441

"For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That's a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that's glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it's safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that's still likely to be the last thing you ever do." - Fred, 443

"...The fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to..." - Fred, 444

"Harry saw Draco's face up close now, right beside his father's. They were extraordinarily alike, except that while his father looked beside himself with excitement, Draco's expression was full of reluctance, even fear." - Rowling, 459

"Help us! We're in the cellar of Malfoy Manor, help us!" - Harry, 466

"Harry Potter, Dobby has come to rescue you." - Dobby, 468

"You must not hurt Harry Potter." - Dobby, 474

"His rage was dreadful and yet Harry's grief for Dobby seemed to diminish it, so that it became a distant storm that reached Harry from across a vast, silent ocean." - Rowling, 478

"HERE LIES DOBBY, A FREE ELF." - Harry, 481

"Am I meant to know, but not to seek? Did you know how hard I'd find that? Is that why you make it this difficult? So I'd have time to work that out?" - Harry, 483

"You are an unusual wizard, Harry Potter." - Griphook, 486

"Goblins and elves are not used to the protection or the respect that you have shown this night. Not from wand-carriers." - Griphook, 488

"You talk about wands like they've got feelings, like they can think for themselves." - Harry, 493

"Hermione's right. Dumbledore didn't want me to have it. He didn't want me to take it. He wanted me to get he Horcruxes." - Harry, 500

"Dumbledore wouldn't come back as a ghost. He would have gone on." - Harry, 504

"You were an inexpressible comfort to me in that terrible place." - Ollivander, 512

"To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs." - Bill, 517

"'Oh,' said Ron. 'Yeah... well, I'm hungry!' he added defensively as his stomach gave an enormous rumble." - Rowling, 560

"Sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good!" - Harry, 568

"The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. I used to notice that when you did it, Harry" - Neville, 574

"Thing was, they bit off a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably thought they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway, Dawlish is still in St. Mungo's and Gran's on the run. She sent me a letter telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parents' sn, and to keep it up." - Neville, 576

"Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration." - Ron, 578

"You don't have to do everything alone, Harry." - Hermione, 583

"No, Luna will take Harry, won't you, Luna?" - Ginny, 585

"Beneath the disbelief and anger, Harry heard a little strain of pride in her voice, and affection for Minerva McGonagall gushed up inside him." - Rowling, 592

"'Our headmaster is taking a short break,' said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window." - Rowling, 600

"Now go and do something constructive! Find Peeves!" - Minerva, 602

"'I was a fool!' Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph." - Rowling, 606

"Potter, aren't you supposed to be looking for something?" - Minerva, 611

"OI! There's a war going on here!" - Harry, 625

"IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!" - Ron, 633

"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face." - Rowling, 637

"The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?" - Rowling, 638

"'Get back!' shouted Ron, and he, Harry and Hermione flattened themselves against a door as a herd of galloping desks thundred past, shepherded by a sprinting Professor McGonagall." - Rowling, 644

"We're all still here, we're still fighting. Come on, now..." - Luna, 649

"Look... at... me..." - Severus, 658

"You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon..." - Albus, 680

"I ask this one great favor of you, Severus, because death is coming for me as surely as the Chudley Cannons will finish bottom of this year's league." - Albus, 683

"But this is touching, Severus. Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?" - Albus, 687

"Do not use that word!" - Severus, 689

"Like rain on a cold window, these thoughts pattered against the hard surface of the incontrovertible truth, which was that he must die." - Rowling, 693

"We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?" - Neville, 696

"You've been so brave." - Lily, 699

"I am sorry too. Sorry I will never know him... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand. I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life." - Remus, 700

"Happiness seemed to radiate from Dumbledore like light, like fire: Harry had never seen the man so utterly, so palpably content." - Rowling, 708

"Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing." - Albus, 709

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" - Albus, 723

"He is dead!" - Narcissa, 726

"...the enormous hands that lifted him into the air were exceedingly gentle. Harry could feel Hagrid's arms trembling with the force of his heaving sobs; great tears splashed down upon him as Hagrid cradled Harry in his arms..." - Rowling, 727

"Oh, Harry... Harry..." - Hagrid, 729

"The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound." - Rowling, 730

"Fight! Fight! Fight for my Master, defender of house-elves! Fight the Dark Lord, in the name of brave Regulus! Fight!" - Kreacher, 734

"But before you try to kill me, I'd advise you to think about what you've done... Think, and try for some remorse, Riddle..." - Harry, 741

"I'd want some peace and quiet, if it were me." - Luna, 743

"We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one,
And Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!" - Peeves, 746

"Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?" - Ron, 746

"And let it be noted that Slytherin House played its part! Let our contribution not be forgotten!" - Phineas, 747

"Albus Severus, you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew." - Harry, 758