Favorite Lines in OotP

"The injustice of it all welled up inside him so that he wanted to yell with fury. If it hadn't been for him, nobody would even have known Voldemort was back! And his reward was to be stuck in Little Whinging for four solid weeks, completely cut off from the magical world, reduced to squatting among dying begonias so that he could hear about water-skiing budgerigars!" - Rowling, 10

"Did he say you look like a pig that's been taught to walk on its hind legs? 'Cause that's not cheek, Dud, it's true..." - Harry, 13

"Not as stupid as you look, are you, Dud? But I s'pose if you were, you wouldn't be able to walk and talk at the same time..." - Harry, 14

"Oh, I'm going to kill Mundungus Fletcher!" - Mrs. Figg, 19

"OWLS! OWLS AGAIN! I WILL NOT HAVE ANY MORE OWLS IN MY HOUSE!" - Vernon, 26

"Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia exchanged looks of horror. If their least favorite thing in the world was magic, closely followed by neighbors who cheated more than they did on the hosepipe ban, people who heard voices were definitely in the bottom ten." - Rowling, 30

"I heard - that awful boy - telling her about them - years ago." - Petunia, 32

"She seized Dudley by the shoulders and shook him, as though testing to see whether she could hear his soul rattling around inside him." - Rowling, 34

"Harry's two lives had somehow become fused and everything had been turned upside down: The Dursleys were asking for details about the magical world and Mrs. Figg knew Albus Dumbeldore; dementors were soaring around Little Whinging and he might never go back to Hogwarts." - Rowling, 37

"The boy - the boy will have to stay, Vernon." - Petunia, 40

"Wotcher, Harry!" - Tonks, 47

"Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!" - Moody, 48

"It felt odd to be introduced to somebody he'd thought he'd known for a year." - Rowling, 49

"A surprising number of people volunteered to come and get you." - Lupin, 50

"Stop being so cheerful, Mad-Eye, he'll think we're not taking this seriously." - Tonks, 55

"ARE YOU MAD, MAD-EYE?" - Tonks, 57

"Hello, Harry. We thought we heard your dulcet tones." - George, 68

"You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out. There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you." - Fred, 68

"Time is Galleons, little brother." - Fred, 68

"If some far-fetched story appears they say something like 'a tale worthy of Harry Potter' and if anyone has a funny accident or anything it's 'let's hope he hasn't got a scar on his forehead or we'll be asked to worship him next - '" - Hermione, 74

"His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother. Is that normal, Hermione?" - Ron, 76

"Hello, Harry. I see you've met my mother." - Sirius, 78

"JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ALLOWED TO USE MAGIC NOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO WHIP YOUR WANDS OUT FOR EVERY TINY LITTLE THING!" - Molly, 84

"I don't know where you learned about right and wrong, Mundungus, but you seem to have missed a few crucial lessons." - Molly, 86

"Sometimes, the way you talk about him, it's as though you think you've got your best friend back!" - Molly, 89

"But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards." - Bill, 95

"If Ginny's not lying awake waiting for Hermione to tell her everything they said downstairs, then I'm a flobberworm..." - Fred, 98

"Yeah, size is no guarantee of power. Look at Ginny. ... You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?" - Fred, 100

"You'd be surprised what Kreacher can manage when he wants to, Hermione." - Sirius, 102

"I love hearing Mum shouting at someone else. It makes such a nice change." - Fred, 107

"My mother didn't have a heart, Kreacher. She kept herself alive out of pure spite." - Sirius, 109

"Well, you don't just hand in your resignation to Lord Voldemort. It's a lifetime of service or death." - Sirius, 112

"It was my father's. Kreacher wasn't quite as devoted to him as to my mother, but I still caught him snogging a pair of my father's old trousers last week." - Sirius, 117

"Sirius might refer to their work as 'cleaning,' but in Harry's opinion they were really waging war on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher." - Rowling, 117

"The thought that Dumbledore had been in the house on the eve of his hearing and not asked to see him made him feel, if that were possible, even worse." - Rowling, 120

"If I'm not expelled from Hogwarts, I'll put in ten Galleons, Harry found himself thinking desperately." - Rowling, 128

"Those are enchanted windows; Magical Maintenance decide what weather we're getting every day. We had two months of hurricanes last time they were angling for a pay raise..." - Arthur, 131

"Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore." - Dumbledore, 139

"But naturally, you would not care how many times you heard from a witness, if the alternative was a serious miscarriage of justice." - Dumbledore, 148

"Why, in the few short weeks since I was asked to leave the Wizengamot, it has already become the practice to hold a full criminal trial to deal with a simple matter of underage magic!" - Dumbledore, 149

"Muggle-baiting might strike some wizards as funny, but it's an expression of something much deeper and nastier..." - Arthur, 153

"Everyone seems quite relieved, though, considering they all knew I'd get off." - Harry, 156

"I'll sponsor you to shut up about spew." - Ron, 159

"What are Fred and I, next-door neighbors?" - George, 163

"You don't mind if we don't kiss you, do you, Ron?" - Fred, 164

"Hermione looked as though she did not know whether to smile or not and compromised by taking an extra large gulp of butterbeer and choking on it." - Rowling, 170

"I think Dumbledore might have hoped that I would be able to exercise some control over my best friends. I need scarcely say that I failed dismally." - Lupin, 170

"I'm nobody." - Neville, 186

"He would have liked Cho to discover him sitting with a group of very cool people laughing their heads off at a joke he had just told; he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Loony Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap." - Rowling, 187-8

"I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon's... backside..." - Ron, 189

"The Quibbler's rubbish, everyone knows that." - Hermione, 193

"Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am." - Luna, 199

"I assume I am still allowed to enjoy the use of whichever words I like, even if the pleasures of eating and drinking are denied me!" - Nearly Headless Nick, 210

"Unfortunately, Ron's mouth was packed to exploding point again and all he could manage was 'node iddum eentup sechew,' which Nick did not seem to think constituted an adequate apology." - Rowling, 210

"None of the faces he could see looked happy; on the contrary, they all looked rather taken aback at being addressed as though they were five years old." - Rowling, 212

"Progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering." - Rowling, 213

"That was about the dullest speech I've ever heard, and I grew up with Percy." - Ron, 214

"I'll tell you what it means. It means the Ministry's interfering at Hogwarts." - Hermione, 214

"It would be quite nice if you stopped jumping down Ron's and my throats, Harry, because if you haven't noticed, we're on your side." - Hermione, 223

"Do mine ears deceive me? Hogwarts prefects surely don't wish to skive off lessons?" - Fred, 225

"We feel our futures lie outside the world of academic achievement." - Fred, 227

"Poisonous toadstools don't change their spots." - Ron, 235

"Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about." - Umbridge, 243

"Oh, most think he's barking, the Potty wee lad,
But some are more kindly and think he's just sad,
But Peevesy knows better and says that he's mad - " - Peeves, 247

"For heaven's sake, Potter! Do you really think this is about truth or lies? It's about keeping your head down and your temper under control!" - McGonagall, 249

"Well, I'm glad you listen to Hermione Granger at any rate." - McGonagall, 249

"They might not count as clothes. They didn't look anything like hats to me, more like woolly bladders." - Ron, 256

"I see no reason why everybody in this class should not achieve an O.W.L. in Transfiguration as long as they put in the work. Yes, you too, Longbottom. There's nothing wrong with your work except lack of confidence." - McGonagall, 257

"Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" - Harry, 261

"You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!" - Luna, 262

"Oh, for heaven's sake, Harry, you can do better than her. Ginny's told me all about her, apparently she'll only believe in things as long as there's no proof at all." - Hermione, 262

"Are you going to give me the password or will I have to stay awake all night waiting for you to finish your conversation?" - Fat Lady, 273

"Subtlety has never been Peeves's strong point." - Nearly Headless Nick, 281

"Get back in position, she's fine! But as you're passing to a teammate, do try not to knock her off her broom, won't you? We've got Bludgers for that!" - Angelina, 292

"I do hope, Ron, that you will not allow family ties to blind you to the misguided nature of our parents' beliefs and actions either. I sincerely hope that, in time, they will realize how mistaken they were and I shall, of course, be ready to accept a full apology when that day comes." - Percy, 298

"Hermione, you are honestly the most wonderful person I've ever met." - Ron, 300

"Harry, yours is okay except for this bit at the end, I think you must have misheard Professor Sinistra, Europa's covered in ice, not mice." - Hermione, 300

"The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters." - Sirius, 302

"Sirius! Honestly, if you made a bit of an effort with Kreacher I'm sure he'd respond..." - Hermione, 303

"You're less like your father than I thought. The risk would've been what made it fun for James." - Sirius, 305

"Oh, I can't wait to see McGonagall inspected. Umbridge won't know what's hit her." - Ron, 309

"I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams." - George, 311

"There will be no need to talk." - Umbridge, 316

"I wonder how you expect to gain an idea of my usual teaching methods if you continue to interrupt me? You see, I do not generally permit people to talk when I am talking." - McGonagall, 320

"But this is much more important than homework!" - Hermione, 325

"Harry, don't you see? This... this is exactly why we need you... We need to know what it's r-really like... facing him... facing V-Voldemort." - Hermione, 328

"Harry had to admit she was getting better; it was now almost always possible to distinguish between the hats and the socks." - Rowling, 334

"The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grumpy-looking old man with a great deal of long gray hair and beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry." - Rowling, 336

"Ginny used to fancy Harry, but she gave up on him months ago. Not that she doesn't like you, of course." - Hermione, 348

"And talking about Michael and Ginny... what about Cho and you? ... Well, she just couldn't keep her eyes off you, could she?" - Hermione, 349

"Well, it's an old-fashioned rule, but it says in Hogwarts, A History that the founders thought boys were less trustworthy than girls." - Hermione, 353

"Well, that clears that up. It would've been really annoying if you hadn't explained yourself properly." - Ron, 377

"I also think we ought to have a name. It would promote a feeling of team spirit and unity, don't you think?" - Hermione, 391

"Well, the Sorting Hat did seriously consider putting me in Ravenclaw during my Sorting, but it decided on Gryffindor in the end." - Hermione, 399

"You'll notice I decided to engrave the date on bits of metal rather than on our members' skin." - Hermione, 399

"I've become accustomed to seeing the Quidditch Cup in my study, boys, and I really don't want to have to hand it over to Professor Snape, so use the extra time to practice, won't you?" - McGonagall, 400

"Even Fred had said that Ron might yet make him and George proud, and that they were seriously considering admitting that he was related to them, something he assured Ron they had been trying to deny for four years." - Rowling, 400-1

"Weasley cannot save a thing,
He cannot block a single ring,
That's why the Slytherins all sing:
Weasley is our King." - Slytherins, 407

"Never known kids like you three fer knowin more'n yeh oughta." - Hagrid, 423

"Hold yer hippogriffs, I haven' finished me story yet!" - Hagrid, 431

"Yes, as gamekeeper fresh air must be so difficult to come by." - Umbridge, 437

"I'll plan his lessons for him if I have to. I don't care if she throws out Trelawney but she's not taking Hagrid!" - Hermione, 440

"Grubbly-Plank's idea of an interesting class was not one where there was a risk that somebody might have their head ripped off." - Rowling, 442

"Well, as you can see - or, I dunno - can you? We're doin' thestrals today - " Hagrid, 447

"Ron, you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet." - Hermione, 458-9

"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have." - Hermione, 459

"That's what they should teach us here, how girls' brains work... it'd be more useful than Divination anyway..." - Harry, 462

"Their renown is such that both have portraits hanging in other important Wizarding institutions. As they are free to move between their own portraits they can tell us what may be happening elsewhere..." - Dumbledore, 469

"This is how it is - this is why you're not in the Order - you don't understand - there are things worth dying for!" - Sirius, 477

"A CLEAN CAULDRON KEEPS POTIONS FROM BECOMING POISONS." - St. Mungo's poster, 484

"ANTIDOTES ARE ANTI-DON'TS UNLESS APPROVED BY A QUALIFIED HEALER." - St. Mungo's poster, 484

"He felt dirty, contaminated, as though he were carrying some deadly germ, unworthy to sit on the underground train back from the hospital with innocent, clean people whose minds and bodies were free of the taint of Voldemort..." - Rowling, 492

"I thought that to belong in Gryffindor House you were supposed to be brave? It looks to me as though you would have been better off in my own house. We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks." - Phineas, 494-5

"Maybe you're taking it in turns to look and keep missing each other." - Hermione, 499

"Well, that was a bit stupid of you, seeing as you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels." - Ginny, 499

"One day, you'll read Hogwarts, A History, and perhaps that will remind you that you can't Apparate or Disapparate inside Hogwarts." - Hermione, 500

"His heart swelled with happiness and relief, and he felt like joining in as they heard Sirius tramping past their door toward Buckbeak's room, singing 'God Rest You, Merrye Hippogriffs' at the top of his voice." - Rowling, 500-1

"Hagrid had sent a furry brown wallet that had fangs, which were presumably supposed to be an antitheft device, but unfortunately prevented Harry putting any money in without getting his fingers ripped off." - Rowling, 502

"Do you mean to tell me that you have been messing about with Muggle remedies?" - Molly, 507

"It sounds as though you've been trying to sew your skin back together, but even you, Arthur, wouldn't be that stupid - " - Molly, 507

"I have not got spattergroit!" - Ron, 508

"Well, hello there! I expect you'd like my autograph, would you?" - Lockhart, 509

"Oh, Gilderoy, you've got visitors! How lovely, and on Christmas Day too! Do you know, he never gets visitors, poor lamb, and I can't think why, he's such a sweetie, aren't you?" - St. Mungo's healer, 510

"I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.... Gladys Gudgeon writes weekly.... I just wish I knew why.... I suspect it is simply my good looks...." - Lockhart, 511

"Harry wanted to stamp on Ron's foot, but that sort of thing was much harder to bring off unnoticed when you were wearing jeans rather than robes." - Rowling, 513

"Well, it's nothing to be ashamed of! You should be proud, Neville, proud! They didn't give their health and their sanity so their only son would be ashamed of them, you know!" - Augusta, 514

"I'm not ashamed." - Neville, 514

"As they left, Harry was sure he saw Neville slip the wrapper into his pocket." - Rowling, 515

"If anybody asks, you are taking Remedial Potions. Nobody who has seen you in my classes could deny you need them." - Snape, 519

"Arthur's learned his lesson about dabbling in Muggle medicine, haven't you, dear?" - Molly, 522

"'Okay,' said Harry, stowing the package away in the inside pocket of his jacket, but he knew he would never use whatever it was." - Rowling, 523

"See you, Harry, and keep an eye out for snakes for me!" - Arthur, 523

"If you shout his name I will curse you into oblivion." - Tonks, 524

"Apparently Stan did not care how nutty somebody was if they were famous enough to be in the paper." - Rowling, 525

"You have no subtlety, Potter. You do not understand fine distinctions. It is one of the shortcomings that makes you such a lamentable potion-maker. ... Only Muggles talk of 'mind reading.' The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are..." - Snape, 530

"Repel me with your brain and you will not need to resort to your wand." - Snape, 535

"But Harry's anger at Snape continued to pound through his veins like venom. Let go of his anger? He could as easily detach his legs..." - Rowling, 535

"Exploding Snap's got nothing to do with Defense Against the Dark Arts, Professor! That's not information relating to your subject!" - Lee, 551

"In nobody was this improvement more pronounced than Neville. The news of his parents' attacker's escape had wrought a strange and even slightly alarming change in him." - Rowling, 553

"Dumbledore trusts him. And if we can't trust Dumbledore, we can't trust anyone." - Hermione, 555

"Harry's feet seemed to be too big for his body as he walked toward her, and he was suddenly horribly aware of his arms and how stupid they looked swinging at his sides." - Rowling, 556

"Women! What did she want to talk about Cedric for anyway? Why does she always want to drag up a subject that makes her act like a human hosepipe?" - Harry, 563

"Family. Whatever yeh say, blood's important..." - Hagrid, 564

"So the Daily Prophet exists to tell people what they want to hear, does it?" - Hermione, 567

"I don't think Daddy exactly pays people to write for the magazine. They do it because it's an honor, and, of course, to see their names in print." - Luna, 569

"You should have told her differently. 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, 572

"Harry, you're worse than Ron... Well, no you're not." - Hermione, 572

"You should write a book translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them." - Ron, 573

"Well, he can do it if he doesn't think anyone's watching him. So all we have to do is ask the crowd to turn their backs and talk amongst themselves every time the Quaffle goes up his end on Saturday." - Fred, 574

"That's the trouble with Quidditch, it creates all this bad feeling and tension between the Houses." - Hermione, 574

"He dreamed that Neville and Professor Sprout were waltzing around the Room of Requirement while Professor McGonagall played the bagpipes." - Rowling, 577

"This one's in two minds. Says you don't come across as a mad person, but he really doesn't want to believe You-Know-Who's back so he doesn't know what to think now... Blimey, what a waste of parchment..." - Fred, 579

"Oh, Harry, don't you see? If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!" - Hermione, 582

"The teachers were, of course, forbidden from mentioning the interview by Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six, but they found ways to express their feelings about it all the same. Professor Sprout awarded Gryffindor twenty points when Harry passed her a watering can; a beaming Professor Flitwick pressed a box of squeaking sugar mice on him at the end of Charms, said "Shh!" and hurried away; and Professor Trelawney broke into hysterical sobs during Divination and announced to the startled class, and a very disapproving Umbridge, that Harry was not going to suffer an early death after all, but would live to a ripe old age, become Minister of Magic, and have twelve children." - Rowling, 582-3

"You are neither special nor important, and it is not up to you to find out what the Dark Lord is saying to his Death Eaters." - Snape, 591

"Centaurs are not the servants or playthings of humans." - Firenze, 602

"Sibyll Trelawney may have Seen, I do not know, but she wastes her time, in the main, on the self-flattering nonsense humans call fortune-telling. I, however, am here to explain the wisdom of centaurs, which is impersonal and impartial. We watch the skies for the great tides of evil or change that are sometimes marked there. It may take ten years to be sure of what we are seeing." - Firenze, 603

"There's things more importan' than keepin' a job." - Hagrid, 605

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? RUN!" - Harry, 608

"Oh, so that's why he wasn't prosecuted for setting up all those regurgitating toilets! What an interesting insight into our justice system!" - McGonagall, 613-4

"Oho! Yes, do let's hear the latest cock-and-bull story designed to pull Potter out of trouble! Go on, then, Dumbledore, go on - Willy Widdershins was lying, was he? Or was it Potter's identical twin in the Hog's Head that day? Or is there the usual simple explanation involving a reversal of time, a dead man coming back to life, and a couple of invisible dementors?" - Fudge, 614

"Well, usually when a person shakes their head, they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans - " McGonagall, 616

"Dumbledore reached out and took the piece of parchment form Fudge. He gazed at the heading scribbled by Hermione months before and for a moment seemed unable to speak." - Rowling, 618

"Instead you get to arrest me. It's like losing a Knut and finding a Galleon, isn't it?" - Dumbledore, 619

"Well - it's just that you seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? 'Come quietly.' I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius." - Dumbledore, 620

"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts... but you cannoy deny he's got style..." - Phineas, 623

"We've decided we don't care about getting into trouble anymore." - Fred, 627

"Thank you so much, Professor! I could have got rid of the sparklers myself, of course, but I wasn't sure whether I had the authority..." - Flitwick, 634

"Now you mention it, d'you know... I think I'm feeling a bit... rebellious." - Hermione, 634

"You think you're funny. But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone." - Lily, 647

"Reading between the lines, I'd say she thinks you're a bit conceited, mate." - Sirius, 649

"The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." - Ginny, 655

"He gave Hermione a sanctimonious little nod. She looked rather taken aback by this thoughtfulness." - Rowling, 658

"May I offer you a cough drop, Dolores?" - McGonagall, 663

"I should have made my meaning plainer. He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher." - McGonagall, 664

"Potter, I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do!" - McGonagall, 665

"I just never thought I'd feel sorry for Snape." - Harry, 671

"George, I think we've outgrown full-time education." - Fred, 674

"Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset." - Rowling, 675

"None of the staff but Filch seemed to be stirring themselves to help her. Indeed, a week after Fred and George's departure Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves, who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier, and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'" - Rowling, 678

"Hermione, I couldn' leave him. See - he's my brother!" - Hagrid, 691

"The slaughter of foals is a terrible crime... We do not touch the innocent." - Magorian, 699

"Weasley can save anything,
He never leaves a single ring,
That's why Gryffindors all sing:
Weasley is our King." - Gryffindors, 701

"Grawp's about sixteen feet tall, enjoys ripping up twenty-foot pine trees, and knows me as Hermy." - Hermione, 705

"Our new - headmistress - has asked the Heads of House to tell their students that cheating will be punished most severely - because, of course, your examination results will reflect upon the headmistress's new regime at the school... However, that is no reason not to do your very best. You have your own futures to think about." - McGonagall, 709

"Hermione, we've been through this before... We're not going through every exam afterward, it's bad enough doing them once." - Ron, 712

"Leave him alone! Alone, I say!" - McGonagall, 721

"Galloping gargoyles! Not so much as a warning! Outrageous behavior!" - Tofty, 721-2

"I don't wonder you're shocked, Potter. As if one of them could have Stunned Minerva McGonagall face on by daylight! Cowardice, that's what it was... Despicable cowardice... If I wasn't worried what would happen to you students without me, I'd resign in protest..." - Pomfrey, 730

"You... This isn't a criticism, Harry! But you do... sort of... I mean - don't you think you've got a bit of a - a - saving-people-thing?" - Hermione, 733

"You're being rather rude, you know." - Luna, 735

"It was a mark of the seriousness of the situation that Hermione made no objection to the smashing up of the Transfiguration department." - Rowling, 736

"Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I assure you I would have the greatest sympathy with you if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too fast to give the victim much time for truth-telling..." - Snape, 745

"He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden!" - Harry, 745

"Potter, when I want nonsense shouted at me I shall give you a Babbling Beverage. And Crabbe, loosen your hold a little, if Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork, and I am afraid I shall have to mention it on your reference if ever you apply for a job." - Snape, 746

"HERMY! WHERE HAGGER?" - Grawp, 758

"There are other ways of flying than with broomsticks." - Luna, 762

"You'd better hope it stays invisible." - Harry, 765

"HARRY POTTER - RESCUE MISSION" - Ministry of Magic badge, 768

"The gently rippling veil intrigued him; he felt a very strong inclination to climb up on the dais and walk through it." - Rowling, 774

"He's dot alone! He's still god be!" - Neville, 800

"'I DOE YOU HAB!' roared Neville." - Rowling, 800

"It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall. His body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch..." - Rowling, 806

"We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom." - Dumbledore, 814

"You are quite wrong. Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness - " - Dumbledore, 814

"Cornelius, I am ready to fight your men - and win again! But a few minutes ago you saw proof, with your own eyes, that I have been telling you the truth for a year. Lord Voldemort has returned, you have been chasing the wrong men for twelve months, and it is time you listened to sense!" - Dumbledore, 817

"There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry. On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength." - Dumbledore, 823

"By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many." - Dumbledore, 825

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgotten lately..." - Dumbledore, 826

"I was trying, in distancing myself from you, to protect you. An old man's mistake..." - Dumbledore, 828

"I warned Sirius when we adopted twleve Grimmauld Place as our headquarters that Kreacher must be treated with kindness and respect." - Dumbledore, 832

"I trust Severus Snape. But I forgot - another old man's mistake - that some wounds run too deep for the healing. I thought Professor Snape could overcome his feelings about your father - I was wrong." - Dumbledore, 833

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike... The fountain we destroyed tonight told a lie. We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward." - Dumbledore, 834

"Your mother's sacrifice made the bond of blood the strongest shield I could give you. ... While you can still call home the place where your mother's blood dwells, there you cannot be touched or harmed by Voldemort." - Dumbledore, 836

"I cared about you too much. I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act." - Dumbledore, 838

"THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES... BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES... AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT... AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES..." - Trelawney, 841

"There is a room in the Department of Mysteries that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you." - Dumbledore, 843-4

"Well, Flitwick's got rid of Fred and George's swamp. He did it in about three seconds. But he left a tiny patch under the window and he's roped it off - " - Ginny, 848

"Right then, well, I think Potter and his friends ought to have fifty points apiece for alerting the world to the return of You-Know-Who! What say you, Professor Snape?" - McGonagall, 852

"He never was one ter sit around at home an' let other people do the fightin'. He couldn' have lived with himself if he hadn' gone ter help - " - Hagrid, 855

"It was sunny and the grounds around him were full of laughing people, and even though he felt as distant from them as though he belonged to a different race, it was still very hard to believe as he sat here that his life must include, or end in, murder." - Rowling, 856

"Indeed, Professor McGonagall sank back into her chair at the staff table after a few feeble remonstrances and was clearly heard to express a regret that she could not run cheering after Umbridge herself, because Peeves had borrowed her walking stick." - Rowling, 857

"Wizards can leave an imprint of themselves upon the earth, to walk palely where their living selves once trod. But very few wizards choose that path. ... He will not come back. He will have... gone on. ... I was afraid of death. I chose to remain behind. I sometimes wonder whether I oughtn't to have... Well, that is neither here nor there. In fact, I am neither here nor there. I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead." - Nearly Headless Nick, 861

"Well, I've lost most of my possessions. People take them and hide them, you know. But as it's the last night, I really do need them back, so I've been putting up signs." - Luna, 862

"Anyway, it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it? ... You heard them, just behind the veil, didn't you? ... In that room with the archway. They were just lurking out of sight, that's all. You heard them." - Luna, 863

"She walked away from him, and as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly." - Rowling, 864

"Wanting to impress Cho seemed to belong to a past that was no longer quite connected with him." - Rowling, 865

"Finest dragon skin, little bro. Business is booming and we thought we'd treat ourselves." - Fred, 867

"I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursley." - Moody, 869

"Harry nodded. He somehow could not find words to tell them what it meant to him, to see them all ranged there, on his side." - Rowling, 870