Favorite Lines in GoF

"Frank inserted a gnarled finger into his ear and rotated it. Owing, no doubt, to a buildup of earwax, he had heard the word 'Quidditch,' which was not a word at all." - Rowling, 7

"Wizards who are supposed to be dead would do well not to run into Ministry of Magic witches at wayside inns..." - Voldemort, 11

"The snake, on the other hand, was curled up on the rotting hearth rug, like some horrible travesty of a pet dog." - Rowling, 14

"Both had been delivered, not by owls (as was usual with wizards), but by large, brightly colored tropical birds. Hedwig had not approved of these flashy intruders..." - Rowling, 24

"Harry frowned. He thought it was a bit rich of Uncle Vernon to call anyone 'dumpy,' when his own son, Dudley, had finally achieved what he'd been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall." - Rowling, 32

"'OUCH!' said Harry as what appeared to be a small, gray, feathery tennis ball collided with the side of his head." - Rowling, 35

"If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday. If they say no, send Pig back pronto and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday anyway." - Ron, 36

"Really? Eclectic, you say? With a plug? Gracious, I must see that..." - Arthur, 43

"They run off eckeltricity, do they? Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs. And batteries. Got a very large collection of batteries. My wife thinks I'm mad, but there you are." - Arthur, 46

"You aren't going to see your nephew till next summer. Surely you're going to say good-bye?" - Arthur, 48

"Uncle Vernon's face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just blasted away half his living room wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering." - Rowling, 48

"We've been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually making things. We thought they just liked the noise." - Ginny, 55

"And your hair's getting silly, dear. I wish you'd let me give it a trim..." - Molly, 62

"Ah, but you didn't fall off, did you? Always modest, our Ced, always the gentleman... But the best man won, I'm sure Harry'd say the same, wouldn't you, eh? One falls off his broom, one stays on, you don't need to be a genius to tell which one's the better flier!" - Amos, 72-3

"I'm not putting them on. I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks." - Archie, 84

"Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt." - Fred, 89

"Oh, shut up, Weatherby." - Fred, 92

"Every time Muggles have got anywhere near here all year, they've suddnly remembered urgent appointments and had to dash away again... bless them." - Arthur, 95-6

"Good lord, Arthur. What did you have to sell to get seats in the Top Box? Surely your house wouldn't have fetched this much?" - Lucius, 101

"And that, boys, is why you should never go for looks alone!" - Arthur, 112

"Oh I am glad I'm not on duty. I wouldn't fancy having to go and tell the Irish they've got to stop celebrating." - Arthur, 118

"Stop! STOP! That's my son!" - Arthur, 130

"Amos, think who you're talking to! Is Harry Potter likely to conjure the Dark Mark?" - Arthur, 134

"I shouted at you before you left! It's all I've been thinking about! What if You-Know-Who had got you, and the last thing I ever said to you was that you didn't get enough O.W.L.s? Oh Fred... George..." - Molly, 146

"Well, it is a bit long, dear. If you'd just let me - " - Molly, 152

"Now, Mum. If the Hogwarts Express crashed tomorrow, and George and I died, how would you feel to know that the last thing we ever heard from you was an unfounded accusation?" - Fred, 153

"I'll go starkers before I put that on." - Ron, 156

"Fine. go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh." - Molly, 157

"When he had lined up with his terrified-looking peers, he caught Colin Creevey's eye, gave a double thumbs-up, and mouthed, I fell in the lake! He looked positively delighted about it." - Rowling, 176

"It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one." - Ron, 178

"'Wow!' said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster." - Rowling, 179

"I am not joking, Mr. Weasley, though now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag and a leprechaun who all go into a bar... Er - but maybe this is not the time... no... where was I?" - Dumbledore, 186

"Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?" - Draco, 197

"Teach - Moody, is that a student?" - McGonagall, 206

"You need to be prepared You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Brown, when I'm talking." - "Moody", 212

"CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" - "Moody", 213

"Very interesting dinner - I mean lesson - what's for eating?" - Neville, 218

"Telling Neville what Professor Sprout had said, Harry thought, had been a very tactful way of cheering Neville up, for Neville rarely heard that he was good at anything. It was the sort of thing Professor Lupin would have done." - Rowling, 220-1

"Harry and Ron grinned at each other. They knew Hermione would rather eat bobotuber pus than miss such an important lesson." - Rowling, 231

"Ron gave a loud false cough, which sounded oddly like 'Lockhart!'" - Rowling, 236

"It's all in Hogwarts, A History. Though, of course, that book's not entirely reliable. A Revised History of Hogwarts would be a more accurate title. Or A Highly Biased and Selective History of Hogwarts, Which Glosses Over the Nastier Aspects of the School." - Hermione, 238

"You can't Apparate inside the Hogwarts grounds, how often do I have to tell you?" - Hermione, 242

"Don't be stupid... It's a flying house!" - Dennis, 242

"I did warn you. I suggest you both go up to Madam Pomfrey. She is already tending to Miss Fawcett, of Ravenclaw, and Mr. Summers, of Hufflepuff, both of whom decided to age themselves up too. Though I must say, neither of their beards is anything like as fine as yours." - Dumbledore, 260

"Somewhere under Harry's numb disbelief he felt a ripple of anger. Little boy?" - Rowling, 275

"We all know Professor Moody considers the morning wasted if he hasn't discovered six plots to murder him before lunchtime." - Karkaroff, 279

"I've left young Weatherby in charge... Very enthusiastic... a little overenthusiastic, if truth be told..." - Crouch, 281

"'You believe I didn't do it, then?' said Harry, concealing with difficulty the rush of gratitude he felt at Hagrid's words." - Rowling, 294

"'Look like they're havin' fun, don' they?' Hagrid said happily. Harry assumed he was talking about the skrewts, because his classmates certainly weren't..." - Rowling, 295

"Enchantingly nasty. I particularly enjoyed your description of me as an obsolete dingbat." - Dumbledore, 307

"Quite apart from liking to get Quidditch terms correct, it caused him another pang to imagine Ron's expression if he could have heard Hermione talking about Wonky-Faints." - Rowling, 317

"That was a very decent thing you just did, Potter." - "Moody", 342

"Play to your strengths." - "Moody", 344

"'No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine." - Rowling, 351

"Last year dementors, this year dragons, what are they going to bring into this school next?" - Pomfrey, 357

"Harry, whoever put your name in that goblet - I - I reckon they're trying to do you in!" - Ron, 358

"You two are so stupid!" - Hermione, 358

"But Harry didn't care, he wouldn't have cared if Karkaroff had given him zero; Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him." - Rowling, 360

"Yeah, you can have a word. Good-bye." - Harry, 362

"Right little ray of sunshine, aren't you? You and Professor Trelawney should get together sometime." - Ron, 364

"I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry." - George, 366

"Just then, Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary." - Rowling, 367

"Worst that can happen is Hagrid'll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry... did I say worst? I meant best." - Ron, 371

"'Professor Dumbedore offered Dobby ten Galleons a week, and weekends off,' said Dobby, suddenly giving a little shiver, as though the prospect of so much leisure and riches were frightening..." - Rowling, 379

"We upholds the family's honor, and we never speaks ill of them - though Professor Dumbledore told Dobby he does not insist upon this. Professor Dumbledore said we is free to - to - He said we is free to call him a - a barmy old codger if we likes, sir!" - Dobby, 380

"Percy wouldn't recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby's tea cozy." - Ron, 384

"A week ago, Harry would have said finding a partner for a dance would be a cinch compared to taking on a Hungarian Horntail. But now that he had done the latter, and was facing the prospect of asking a girl to the ball, he thought he'd rather have another round with the dragon." - Rowling, 388

"Why do they have to move in packs? How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" - Harry, 388

"It was quite something to hear 'O Come, All Ye Faithful' sung by an empty helmet that only knew half the words. Several times, Filch the caretaker had to extract Peeves from inside the armor, where he had taken to hiding, filling in the gaps in the songs with lyrics of his own invention, all of which were very rude." - Rowling, 395

"Giggling should be made illegal, Harry thought furiously..." - Rowling, 396

"He had been starting to like Cedric - prepared to overlook the fact that he had once beaten him at Quidditch, and was handsome, and popular, and nearly everyone's favorite champion. Now he suddenly realized that Cedric was in fact a useless pretty boy who didn't have enough brains to fill an eggcup." - Rowling, 398

"Hermione, Neville's right - you are a girl..." - Ron, 400

"Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?" - Hermione, 404

"Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts' secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessibly at five-thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder." - Dumbledore, 417-8

"You - you're fraternizing with the enemy, that's what you're doing!" - Ron, 421

"This lot keep gabbling in Gobbledegook... and I only know one word of Gobbledegook. Bladvak. It means 'pickax.' I don't like to use it in case they think I'm threatening them." - Ludo, 446

"Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to break down the door." - Dumbledore, 453

"My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery..." - Dumbledore, 454

"Lying to Hagrid wasn't quite like lying to anyone else." - Rowling, 457

"Pajama party, is it?" - "Moody", 470

"Oh, if there's one thing I hate, it's a Death Eater who walked free..." - "Moody", 477

"Neville's aim was so poor that he kept accidentally sending much heavier things flying across the room - Professor Flitwick, for instance." - Rowling, 479

"It turned out that Hagrid knew quite as much about unicorns as he did about monsters, though it was clear that he found their lack of poisonous fangs disappointing." - Rowling, 484

"Dobby cannot let Harry Potter lose his Wheezy!" - Dobby, 491

"There you go, Harry! You weren't being thick after all - you were showing moral fiber!" - Ron, 507

"I told you not to annoy Rita Skeeter! She's made you out to be some sort of - of scarlet woman!" - Ron, 513

"She's got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - Sirius, 525

"Percy would never throw any of his family to the dementors." - Hermione, 534

"She's unhappy! Why don't you try cheering her up instead of covering her up?" - Hermione, 538

"Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?" - Hermione, 548

"I vant to know vot there is between you and Hermy-own-ninny." - Viktor, 552

"You can't Disapparate on the Hogwarts grounds, haven't I told you enough times?" - Hermione, 564

"You can't Disapparate on the grounds, Ron!" - Hermione, 570

"Cockroach Cluster? I was only joking..." - Harry, 579

"No, it's not that, it's just that Potter wants a word with you, Dumbledore. He's just outside the door." - "Moody", 580

"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind." - Dumbledore, 597

"Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed..." - Dumbledore, 598

"That is no ordinary scar." - Dumbledore, 600

"Please do not speak about Neville's parents to anybody else. He has the right to let people know, when he is ready." - Dumbledore, 604

"Fleur Delacour, Harry noticed, was eyeing Bill with great interest over her mother's shoulder. Harry could tell that she had no objection whatsoever to long hair or earrings with fangs on them." - Rowling, 616

"Cedric was serious. He was walking away from the sort of glory Hufflepuff House hadn't had in centuries." - Rowling, 634

"Both of us. ... We'll take it at the same time. It's still a Hogwarts victory. ... we've helped each other out, haven't we? We both got here. Let's just take it together." - Harry, 634

"Kill the spare." - Voldemort, 638

"Your father's coming... He wants to see you... it will be all right... hold on..." - Lily, 667

"Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents..." - Cedric, 668

"Decent people are so easy to manipulate..." - "Moody", 676

"There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat." - Rowling, 679

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery." - Dumbledore, 680

"Fawkes blinked peacefully up at him. There was something comforting about his warm weight." - Rowling, 694

"If I thought I could help you by putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it." - Dumbledore, 695

"For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes." - Rowling, 696

"No spell can reawaken the dead." - Dumbledore, 697

"You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!" - Dumbledore, 708

"The only one against whom I intend to work is Lord Voldemort. If you are against him, then we remain, Cornelius, on the same side." - Dumbledore, 709

"Poppy, would you be very kind and go down to Professor Moody's office, where I think you will find a house-elf called Winky in considerable distress?" - Dumbledore, 711

"Mrs. Weasley set the potion down on the bedside cabinet, bent down, and put her arms around Harry. He had no memory of ever having been hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her..." - Rowling, 714

"You all righ'? ... No, yeh're not. 'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be." - Hagrid, 718

"Yeh did as much as yer father would've done, an' I can' give yeh no higher praise than that." - Hagrid, 719

"Now... who'd like ter come an' visit the las' skrewt with me? I was jokin' - jokin'!" - Hagrid, 719

"Cedric was a person who exemplified many of the qualities that distinguish Hufflepuff house. He was a good and loyal friend, a hard worker, he valued fair play. His death has affected you all, whether you knew him well or not. I think that you have the right, therefore, to know exactly how it came about. Cedric Diggory was murdered by Lord Voldemort." - Dumbledore, 721-2

"It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies, and that any attempt to pretend that Cedric died as the result of an accident, or some sort of blunder of his own, is an insult to his memory." - Dumbledore, 722

"I say to you all, once again - in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." - Dumbledore, 723

"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory." - Dumbledore, 724

"I liked Diggory. He vos alvays polite to me. Alvays. Even though I vos from Durmstrang - with Karkaroff." - Viktor, 725

"I've told her she's to keep her quill to herself for a whole year. See if she can't break the habit of writing horrible lies about people." - Hermione, 728

"Interesting effect. Who used the Furnunculus Curse? ... Odd. I used Jelly-Legs. Looks as though those two shouldn't be mixed. He seems to have sprouted little tentacles all over his face. Well, let's not leave them here, they don't add much to the decor." - George, 730

"Listen. If you don't take it, I'm throwing it down the drain. I don't want it and I don't need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual before long." - Harry, 733

"As Hagrid had said, what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did." - Rowling, 734