Favorite Lines in HBP

"Yes, of course. I've been having the same week you have, Prime Minister." - Fudge, 4

"The Prime Minister rather resented being told to sit down in his own office, let alone offered his own whiskey, but he sat nevertheless." - Rowling, 8

"The whole Wizarding community has been screaming for my resignation for a fortnight. I've never known them so united in my whole term of office!" - Fudge, 15

"The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister." - Fudge, 18

"I had sixteen years of information on Dumbledore to give him when he returned, a rather more useful welcome-back present than endless reminisces of how unpleasant Azkaban is..." - Snape, 27

"You overlook Dumbledore's greatest weakness: He has to believe the best of people." - Snape, 31

"Judging by your look of stunned disbelief, Harry did not warn you that I was coming. However, let us assume that you have invited me warmly into your house. It is unwise to linger overlong on doorsteps in these troubled times." - Dumbledore, 45

"It was clear that as far as he was concerned, any man who could look at Harry and say 'excellent' was a man with whom he could never see eye to eye." - Rowling, 46

"Sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man." - Dumbledore, 46

"Shall we assume that you have invited me into your sitting room?" - Dumbledore, 47

"I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness." - Dumbledore, 48

"Oh, I'm so sorry. But it would have been better manners to drink it, you know." - Dumbledore, 51

"You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you." - Dumbledore, 55

"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." - Dumbledore, 56

" I do not think you need to worry about being attacked tonight. ... You are with me." - Dumbledore, 57-8

"Well, I have lost count of the number of times I have said this in recent years, but here we are, once again, one member of staff short." - Dumbledore, 60

"Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry." - Dumbledore, 60

"You can't Apparate anywhere inside the buildings or grounds. Hermione Granger told me." - Harry, 60

"No, I thought not. You have not asked me, for instance, what is my favorite flavor of jam, to check that I am indeed Professor Dumbledore and not an impostor. ... For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself." - Dumbledore, 61-2

'The fact remains that I'm an old man, Albus. A tired old man who's earned the right to a quiet life and a few creature comforts." - Slughorn, 67

"That's what she did, did she? Idiotic woman. Never liked her." - Slughorn, 69

"One of my best friends is Muggle-born, and she's the best in our year." - Harry, 70

"No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines. I do love knitting patterns." - Dumbledore, 73

"Harry had a sudden and vivid mental image of a great swollen spider, spinning a web around it, twitching a thread here and there to bring its large and juicy flies a little closer." - Rowling, 75

"I take my hat off to you - or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders." - Dumbledore, 77

"I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are." - Dumbledore, 80

"Mrs. Weasley ended her speech with a stern look, as if it had been Harry suggesting that it was natural to miss spark plugs." - Rowling, 85

"I must say, I didn't approve at first, but they do seem to have a bit of a flair for business!" - Molly, 88

"I was so pleased to 'ear you would be coming - zere isn't much to do 'ere, unless you like cooking and chickens!" - Fleur, 92

"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." - Hermione, 96

"Oh, come off it. Yep - ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' at Defense Against the Dark Arts. You're actually disappointed, aren't you?" - Ron, 103

"Mum, d'you honestly think You-Know-Who's going to be hiding behind a bookshelf in Flourish and Blotts?" - Ron, 107

"Who blacked your eye, Granger? I want to send them flowers." - Draco, 113

"Dumbledore won't always be there to protect you." - Narcissa, 113

"WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT YOU-KNOW-WHO?
YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT U-NO-POO -
THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION
THAT'S GRIPPING THE NATION!" - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes poster, 116

"They'll be murdered in their beds!" - Molly, 116

"There was such a Mrs. Weasley-ish glare on her face that Harry was surprised Fred didn't recoil." - Rowling, 121

If I see you do that again I'll jinx your fingers together." - Molly, 122

"Well, next time you can show me how it's done, Master of Mystery!" - Hermione, 127

"Bill and I 'ave almost decided on only two bridesmaids, Ginny and Gabrielle will look very sweet togezzer. I am theenking of dressing zem in pale gold - pink would of course be 'orrible with Ginny's 'air..." - Fleur, 131

"Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George." - Arthur, 134

"He felt a strange twinge of annoyance as she walked away, her long red hair dancing behind her; he had become so used to her presence over the summer that he had almost forgotten that Ginny did not hang around with him, Ron, and Hermione while at school." - Rowling, 136

"I enjoyed the meetings too. It was like having friends." - Luna, 138

"People expect you to have cooler friends than us." - Luna, 139

"Wrackspurt got you? ... They're invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy. I thought I felt one zooming around in here." - Luna, 140

"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe." - Nick, 165

"Harry shook his head again. Exactly what Hagrid would say when he realized his three favorite students had given up his subject, he did not like to think." - Rowling, 170

"We were the ones who made the most effort in classes because we like Hagrid. But he thinks we liked the stupid subject." - Hermione, 173

"It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - particularly after what happened at the Ministry." - McGonagall, 174

"Take Charms, and I shall drop Augusta a line reminding her that just because she failed her Charms O.W.L., the subject is not necessarily worthless." - McGonagall, 174

"Good teams have been ruined before now because Captains just kept playing the old faces, or letting in their friends..." - Katie, 176

"The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible." - Snape, 177

"Harry stared at Snape. It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them, as Snape was doing, with a loving caress in his voice?" - Rowling, 178

"There's no need to call me 'sir,' Professor." - Harry, 180

"Harry was so disarmed that she had thought his words as well worth memorizing as The Standard Book of Spells that he did not argue." - Rowling, 181

"P.S. I enjoy Acid Pops." - Dumbledore, 181

"They chose the one nearest a gold-colored cauldron that was emitting one of the most seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: Somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle, and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow." - Rowling, 183

"It's supposed to smell differently to each of us, according to what attracts us, and I can smell freshly mown grass and new parchment and - " - Hermione, 185

"Did you really tell him I'm the best in the year? Oh, Harry!" - Hermione, 186

"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love." - Slughorn, 186

"Two tablespoonfuls taken with breakfast. Two perfect days." - Slughorn, 187

"Did I hear right? You've been taking orders from something someone wrote in a book, Harry?" - Ginny, 192

"From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky mashes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher, who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron." - Dumbledore, 197

"In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger." - Dumbledore, 197

"Hissy, hissy, little snakey,
Slither on the floor,
You be good to Morfin
Or he'll nail you to the door." - Morfin, 204

"I hate not talking to Hagrid." - Hermione, 218

"'I'm tall,' said Ron inconsequentially." - Rowling, 219

"I'm a teacher! A teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!" - Hagrid, 228

"He did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behavior, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way." - Rowling, 237-8

"Tomorrow, I'd rather you set the alarm clock." - Ron, 239

"And they'd love to have me. We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in." - Harry, 242

"I expect 'nothing's' in the back getting more firewhisky." - Hermione, 247

"Ron and Hermione exchanged looks that plainly said There's no point arguing with him." - Rowling, 256

"Could you possibly be feeling sorry for Lord Voldemort?" - Dumbledore, 262

"I don't think many people will be sorry to see the back of him." - Mrs. Cole, 268

"I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want them to do, without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to. I knew I was different. I knew I was special. Always, I knew there was something." - Tom, 271

"At Hogwarts, we teach you not only to use magic, but to control it. ... You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to allow your magic to run away with you. ... All new wizards much accept that, in entering our world, they abide by our laws." - Dumbledore, 273

"There are a lot of Toms." - Tom, 275

"There he showed contempt for anything that tied him to other people, anything that made him ordinary. Even then, he wished to be different, separate, notorious. ... Lord Voldemort has never had a friend, nor do I believe that he has ever wanted one." - Dumbledore, 277

"We're allowed to bring guests, and I was going to ask you to come, but if you think it's that stupid then I won't bother!" - Hermione, 282

"Well, you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should - " - Ginny, 286

"He had known Ginny for years now... It was natural that he should feel protective... natural that he should want to look out for her... want to rip Dean limb from limb for kissing her... No... he would have to control that particular brotherly feeling..." - Rowling, 289-90

"It looks like he's eating her face, doesn't it? But I suppose he's got to refine his technique somehow." - Ginny, 300

"Harry said nothing. He thought his voice might soon vanish from lack of use." - Rowling, 305

"He says very funny things sometimes, doesn't he? But he can be a bit unkind. I noticed that last year." - Luna, 310

"Oh, no, I'd love to go with you as friends! Nobody's ever asked me to go to a party before, as a friend! Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?" - Luna, 311

"Potty loves Loony!" - Peeves, 312

"I like really good Quidditch players." - Hermione, 313

"Quidditch! Is that all boys care about?" - Hermione, 318

"I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry. The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a combination of Dark Magic and gum disease." - Luna, 320

"Only time I've ever seen Dad as angry as Mum. Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since." - Ron, 326

"I'm sure you'll dazzle us all with hitherto unsuspected magical skills." - Fred, 326

"He was not entirely sure that she had heard him, though; Ron and Lavender had been saying a thoroughly nonverbal good-bye just behind him at the time." - Rowling, 329

"Oh, come and stir my cauldron,
And if you do it right,
I'll boil you up some hot strong love
To keep you warm tonight." - Celestina Warbeck, 330

"It comes down to whether or not you trust Dumbledore's judgment. I do; therefore, I trust Severus." - Lupin, 332

"Eez eet over?" - Fleur, 333

"Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit." - Lupin, 335

"Well, think back. Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?" - Harry, 338

"Well, we find we appreciate you more and more, Mum, now we're washing our own socks." - George, 339

"But if I keep running in and out of the Ministry, won't that seem as though I approve of what the Ministry's up to?" - Harry, 346

"Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you, Potter?" - Scrimgeour, 348

"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick." - Flitwick, 356

"No. He is not very happy with me either. We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on." - Dumbledore, 357

"I am very touched, Harry." - Dumbledore, 358

"Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did." - Dumbledore, 358-9

"Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!" - Dumbledore, 359

"He was oddly colorless, with transparent eyelashes, wispy hair, and an insubstantial air, as though a single gust of wind might blow him away. Harry wondered whether constant disappearances and reappearances had somehow diminished his substance, or whether this frail build was ideal for anyone wishing to vanish." - Rowling, 382

"The important things to remember when Apparating are the three D's! Destination, Determination, Deliberation!" - Twycross, 384

"So, all in all, not one of Ron's better birthdays?" - Fred, 399

"'Oh... yes...' said Madam Pomfrey, who seemed to have been counting Hagrid as several people due to his vastness." - Rowling, 402

"Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it. Well, all I can say is that it was a lucky day for the Weasleys when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the Hogwarts Express, Harry." - Arthur, 403-4

"Would you call getting poisoned being interesting?" - Harry, 410

"And Harry Potter's now having an argument with his Keeper. I don't think that'll help him find the Snitch, but maybe it's a clever ruse..." - Luna, 414

"Oh, it's a Gurdyroot. You can keep it if you like, I've got a few of them. They're really excellent for warding off Gulping Plimpies." - Luna, 425

"Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself." - Dumbledore, 427

"I see. And you feel that you have exerted your very best efforts in this matter, do you? That you have exercised all of your considerable ingenuity? That you have left no depth of cunning unplumbed in your quest to retrieve the memory?" - Dumbledore, 428

"I know what you are known as. But to me, I'm afraid, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings." - Dumbledore, 442

"I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed - " Voldemort, 443

"Of some kinds of magic. Of some. Of others, you remain... forgive me... woefully ignorant." - Dumbledore, 444

"I love you, Hermione." - Ron, 449

"Wish that would happen with me and Lavender. But the more I hint I want to finish it, the tighter she holds on. It's like going out with the giant squid." - Ron, 450

"Oh, very good. Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent.'" - Snape, 460

"And yet, I doubt you'd find a woman who sulked for half an hour because Madam Rosmerta didn't laugh at their joke about the hag, the Healer, and the Mimbulus mimbletonia." - Hermione, 468

"You didn't meet him, Hermione. Believe me, being dead will have improved him a lot." - Ron, 471

"The other spiders won' let me anywhere near their webs now Aragog's gone. Turns out it was on'y on his order they didn' eat me! Can yeh believe that, Harry?" - Hagrid, 482

"Farewell, Aragog, king of arachnids, whose long and faithful friendship those who knew you won't forget! Though your body will decay, your spirit lingers on in the quiet, web-spun places of your forest home. May your many-eyed descendants ever flourish and your human friends find solace for the loss they have sustained." - Slughorn, 484-5

"And Odo the hero, they bore him back home
To the place that he'd known as a lad,
They laid him to rest with his hat inside out
And his wand snapped in two, which was sad." - Slughorn, 488

"But you won't help her son. She gave me her life, but you won't give me a memory." - Harry, 489

"Well, you must understand that the soul is supposed to remain intact and whole. Splitting it is an act of violation, it is against nature." - Slughorn, 497-8

"Yes, Harry, you can love. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing. You are still too young to understand how unusual you are, Harry." - Dumbledore, 509

"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you stare into a mirror that reflected your heart's desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches. Harry, have you any idea how few wizards could have seen what you saw in that mirror?" - Dumbledore, 511

"He was in such a hurry to mutiilate his own soul, he never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole." - Dumbledore, 511

"But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high." - Rowling, 512

"Harry thought there was a rather knowing look in her eye as she told him that, but she could not possibly know that his insides were suddenly dancing the conga." - Rowling, 514

"This is your copy of Advanced Potion-Making, is it, Potter? ... This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts? ... Then why does it have the name 'Roonil Wazlib' written inside the front cover?" - Snape, 527

"Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments - or it might have been half an hour - or possibly several sunlit days - they broke apart." - Rowling, 533

"You'd think people had better things to gossip about. Three dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it's true you've got a hippogriff tattooed across your chest." - Ginny, 534

"How can I have hung round with you for five years and not think girls are clever?" - Harry, 538
"The Inner Eye was fixed upon matters well outside the mundane realms of whooping voices." - Trelawney, 542

"Again and again, no matter how I lay them out - the lightning-struck tower. Calamity. Disaster. Coming nearer all the time..." - Trelawney, 543

"I'll be fine, I'll be with Dumbledore." - Harry, 552

"I said it was crude. The idea, as I am sure you will have gathered, is that your enemy must weaken him- or herself to enter. Once again, Lord Voldemort fails to grasp that there are much more terrible things than physical injury." - Dumbledore, 559

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth..." - Dumbledore, 564-5

"There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his own lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - Dumbledore, 566

"I am not worried, Harry. I am with you." - Dumbledore, 578

"I've been better. That potion... was no health drink..." - Dumbledore, 580

"Dumbledore had wordlessly immobilized Harry, and the second he had taken to perform the spell had cost him the chance of defending himself." - Rowling, 584

"Draco, Draco, you are not a killer." - Dumbledore, 585

"Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe." - Dumbledore, 586

"You care about me saying 'Mudblood' when I'm about to kill you?" - Draco, 589

"My dear boy, let us have no more pretense about that. If you were going to kill me, you would have done it when you first disarmed me, you would not have stopped for this pleasant chat about ways and means." - Dumbledore, 591

"No, Draco. It is my mercy, and not yours, that matters now." - Dumbledore, 592

"Jokes? No, no, these are manners." - Dumbledore, 593

"Severus... please..." - Dumbledore, 595

"Harry sped up as an unbidden voice in his head said: not Hagrid... not Hagrid too..." - Rowling, 601

"Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!" - Snape, 603

"DON'T CALL ME COWARD!" - Snape, 604

"Take more'n that ter finish me." - Hagrid, 605

"He had known there was no hope from the moment that the full Body-Bind Curse Dumbledore had placed upon him lifted, known that it could have happened only because its caster was dead, but there was still no preparation for seeing him here, spread-eagled, broken: the greatest wizard Harry had ever, or would ever, meet." - Rowling, 608

"This was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that terrible potion for nothing." - Rowling, 610

"Dumbledore believed Snape was sorry James was dead? Snape hated James..." - Lupin, 616

" - Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder. Fred and George's. I'm going to be having a word with them about who they let buy their products." - Ron, 618

"And what do you mean by zat? What do you mean, ''e was going to be married?'" - Fleur, 622

"You thought I would not wish to marry him? Or per'aps, you hoped? What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for the both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!" - Fleur, 623

"Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world." - McGonagall, 624

"Professor Dumbledore always valued your views, and so do I." - McGonagall, 628

"No other headmaster or headmistress ever gave more to this school." - Hagrid, 629

"As he lay there, he became aware suddenly that the grounds were silent. Fawkes had stopped singing. And he knew, without knowing how he knew it, that the phoenix had gone, had left Hogwarts for good, just as Dumbledore had left the school, had left the world... had left Harry." - Rowling, 631-2

"'Evil' is a strong word." - Hermione, 638

"Harry did not believe that Malfoy would have killed Dumbledore. He despised Malfoy still for his infatuation with the Dark Arts, but now the tiniest drop of pity mingled with the dislike." - Rowling, 640

"Hagrid sat down next to his half-brother, and Grawp patted Hagrid hard on the head, so that his chair leges sank into the ground. Harry had a wonderful momentary urge to laugh." - Rowling, 643

"There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been before." - Rowling, 645

"It's for some stupid, noble reason, isn't it?" - Ginny, 646

"He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him." - Harry, 649

"Dumbledore's man through and through. That's right." - Harry, 649

"I've got to find them and destroy them, and then I've got to go after the seventh bit of Voldemort's soul, the bit that's still in his body, and I'm the one who's going to kill him. And if I meet Severus Snape along the way, so much the better for me, so much the worse for him." - Harry, 651

"We're with you whatever happens." - Ron, 651

"Harry looked at him, startled; the idea that anything as normal as a wedding could still exist seemed incredible and yet wonderful." - Rowling, 652

"His hand automatically closed around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione." - Rowling, 652