FastSaying

Oh, no, sir, no,' said Dobby, looking suddenly serious. 'Tis part of the house-elf's enslavement, sir. We keeps their secrets and our silence, sir, we upholds the family's honour, 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' Dobby looked suddenly nervous, and beckoned Harry closer. Harry bent forwards. Dobby whispered, 'He said we is free to call him a - a barmy old codger if we likes, sir!' Dobby gave a frightened sort of giggle.


J.K. Rowling

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Harry Potter asks if he can help Dobby . . . Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goo...
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter set Dobby free!" "Least I could do, Dobby", said Harry, grinning. "Just promise never t...
J.K. ROWLING Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby do...
J.K. ROWLING If [Harry Potter] knew what he means to us, to the lowly, the enslaved, we dregs of the magical worl...
J.K. ROWLING Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten hi...
J.K. ROWLING Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find his Wheezy—"
"Find my what?"
"—and take ...
J.K. ROWLING But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his w...
J.K. ROWLING Dobby is free.
J.K. ROWLING Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
J.K. ROWLING Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry ...
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING Dobby non può permettere che Harry Potter si perde il suo rosso!
J.K. ROWLING Offend Dobby!” choked the elf. “Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a wizard — li...
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!” Harry said, staring at Hagrid. “You don’t think anything...
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING —¿Para qué? —preguntó Harry, mirando las branquialgas. —¡Gracias a ellas, Harry Potter pod...
J.K. ROWLING So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You kno...
J.K. ROWLING Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD You don’t think anything that Skeeter cow — sorry, Professor,” he added quickly, looking at Du...
J.K. ROWLING So, Harry,' said Dumbledore quietly. "Before you got lost in my thoughts, you wanted to tell me some...
J.K. ROWLING We didn’t give it to him because he’s a Muggle!” said Fred indignantly. “No, we gave it to h...
J.K. ROWLING When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' N...
RANDY MAY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.
SAMUEL JOHNSON In court he is 'yes sir,' 'no sir' and 'please.' He always had this look about him of 'Who me?' - as...
JAMES POLK Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.
J.K. ROWLING Sir D is getting better and better each week. If he keeps improving, we should be good.
ERIC SMITH And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
BIBLE Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry ha...
J.K. ROWLING Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry ha...
J.K. ROWLING Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there.
"Still in the showers," said Fr...
J.K. ROWLING Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?"
J.K. ROWLING So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, an...
J.K. ROWLING Sir Harry Towers cares.
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON No sir, we don't have a home left.
DAN PARKER I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.'
'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. ...
JOHN GREEN I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?
ALEX SCARROW Yes, Harry, you can love,' said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry h...
J.K. ROWLING How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don’t know how to use it?’
Not me, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone.
He will only be gone from the school when none here or lo...
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ ...
J.K. ROWLING We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it."
"...
TERRY PRATCHETT I should have known it was going to go downhill from there.
“Now, I understand you’re looki...
T.J. KLUNE But you're dead,' said Harry.
'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.
'Then... am I d...
J.K. ROWLING You are my heart,” he said. He’d said those very words to her that morning. But that morning, th...
TIFFANY REISZ Lt. Denice Barnum at the helm gave a sigh, then replaced her nail file on the control panel, beside ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to becom...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?'
'Because it...
J.K. ROWLING The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN When the Buddha was asked, “Sir, what do you and your monks practice?” he replied, “We sit, we...
THICH NHAT HANH Professor Moody!" said a shocked voice.
Professor McGonagall was coming down the marble stairca...
J.K. ROWLING Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, M...
MARGARET MITCHELL What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER No sir, I didn't do that. I did not do that.
HILLARY CLINTON Dear Professor Dumbledore, Sorry to bother you, but my scar hurt this morning. Yours sincerely, Harr...
J.K. ROWLING Mahmoud, sir. No, Doctor Mahmoud is not well. A—a slight nervous breakdown, sir.” Van Tromp refl...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yes, (Gonzales) said there’s a contract, ... But he did not (explain it) and said, ‘Sir, I’ll ...
EDUARDO ERMITA I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really kn...
J.K. ROWLING Sir, we are a nest of singing birds
SAMUEL JOHNSON William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT He had big plans for you," I said with tears rolling down my face. "That's why it took so long." Sir...
PATRICK CARMAN A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY Blimey,” said the other twin. “Are you — ?” “He is,” said the first twin. “Aren’t yo...
J.K. ROWLING Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us e...
KURT VONNEGUT He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about wa...
J.K. ROWLING I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
"'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're prete...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS A policeman stopped me and said: "Would you please blow into this bag, sir?" I said: "What for, offi...
TOMMY COOPER So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy ...
BIBLE Two years ago the A's brought in their first-round picks to the Coliseum and he was smiling and tell...
JUSTIN DUCHSCHERER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of an...
J.K. ROWLING No -- no, sir, I don't.
DAN RATHER He never really wanted a career, never said he did. We just sort of gave him one.
MATTHEW JOHNSON Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.
JACK LONDON Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritatio...
J.K. ROWLING The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
Harry is the best hope we have. Trus...
J.K. ROWLING Dumbledore shook his head. “Curiosity is not a sin,” he said. “But we should exercise caution ...
J.K. ROWLING We'll be there, Harry," said Ron
"What?"
"At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And ...
J.K. ROWLING Apparently, Professor Sprout told Professor Moody I’m really good at Herbology,” Neville said. T...
J.K. ROWLING Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?”
“We’re going to look for water,” said...
DAVE BARRY ...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--"
"Indeed, sir! May ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The crowd watched. 'Sir?' said the cop. 'Can you please answer the crazy woman so we can all go home...
KRISTAN HIGGINS Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about w...
CASSANDRA CLARE She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impr...
HUMPHREY DAVY A fox may steal your hens, sir, / . . . If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir, / He steals your whole estate...
JOHN GAY

More J.K. Rowling

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...
J.K. ROWLING Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold...
J.K. ROWLING The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...
J.K. ROWLING As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies l...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her lef...
J.K. ROWLING Excellent,” said Lupin, looking up as Tonks and Harry entered.
“We’ve got about a minute...
J.K. ROWLING Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school frie...
J.K. ROWLING You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But yo...
J.K. ROWLING And this is Nymphadora-"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder...
J.K. ROWLING You see!" said a strained voice. Tonks was glaring at Lupin. "She still wants to marry him, even tho...
J.K. ROWLING And don't forget: Elvendork! It's unisex! - James Potter
J.K. ROWLING And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!
J.K. ROWLING I will if you go out with me, Evans
J.K. ROWLING Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes.
“You’re less lik...
J.K. ROWLING Quelli che ci amano non ci lasciano mai veramente.
J.K. ROWLING My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp...
J.K. ROWLING Then you should have died!" Roared Black. "Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have do...
J.K. ROWLING I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thou...
J.K. ROWLING Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously th...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!”

A bearlike black dog had appeared...
J.K. ROWLING Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
J.K. ROWLING Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?
J.K. ROWLING You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .
J.K. ROWLING But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep...
J.K. ROWLING He's not a child!" said Sirius impatiently.

"He's not an adult either!" said Mrs. Weasley...
J.K. ROWLING You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
J.K. ROWLING You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!
J.K. ROWLING He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.
J.K. ROWLING Remus Lupin: I am not being ridiculous. Tonks deserves somebody young and whole.
Mr. Weasley: B...
J.K. ROWLING What you fear most of all is-fear.
J.K. ROWLING I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and ...
J.K. ROWLING Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only one out of three, I’m afraid. I have not been...
J.K. ROWLING Loony, Loopy Lupin.
J.K. ROWLING Harry -- yer a wizard.
J.K. ROWLING Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many peop...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
"Not today, Mr. Weasley."
Snape looked as...
J.K. ROWLING First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
J.K. ROWLING Well, that won’t matter if they turn out to cure seasickness or something, will it?” said Ron, g...
J.K. ROWLING thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing . . . maybe you’ve got to attack him while he’s i...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we’re trying to keep them alive,” said Malfoy sarcastically. “Wh...
J.K. ROWLING Now, Ron, the Sorting’s much more important than food,” said Nearly Headless Nick as “Madley, ...
J.K. ROWLING Bagman swore loudly. ‘Damn them!’ he said, looking quite distracted,
J.K. ROWLING Malfoy got Hermione!” Ron said. “Look!” He forced Hermione to show Snape her teeth — she was...
J.K. ROWLING I might be seeing you all sooner than you think,” said Charlie, grinning, as he hugged Ginny good-...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah, well, yeh get weirdos in every breed. I’m not sayin’ there isn’t the odd elf who’d tak...
J.K. ROWLING Right little ray of sunshine, aren’t you?” said Ron. “You and Professor Trelawney should get t...
J.K. ROWLING He wrenched the hangings shut around his four-poster, leaving Harry standing there by the door, star...
J.K. ROWLING Ron’s voice now joined the others’. “What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “O...
J.K. ROWLING sporadic howls from the ghoul who lived in the attic.
J.K. ROWLING Bill and Charlie both had their wands out, and were making two battered old tables fly high above th...
J.K. ROWLING Sirius shook his head and said, “She’s got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If y...
J.K. ROWLING The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with pe...
J.K. ROWLING What?” Ron bellowed furiously. “Four? You lousy, biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!” But Harry...
J.K. ROWLING Don’t you?” said Moody quietly. “It’s very simple, Karkaroff. Someone put Potter’s name in...
J.K. ROWLING He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville’s snores, ...
J.K. ROWLING Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?’ Dumbledore asked calmly.
J.K. ROWLING Harry heard the final, quavering note from the bagpipe with relief.
J.K. ROWLING Dobby non può permettere che Harry Potter si perde il suo rosso!
J.K. ROWLING Lo, Fawkes,’ said Harry quietly. He stroked the phoenix’s beautiful scarlet and gold plumage. Fa...
J.K. ROWLING Oh,’ said Mr Crouch, looking over at Percy in mild surprise. ‘Yes – thank you, Weatherby.’ F...
J.K. ROWLING Good one,” said Ron, copying it down. “Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don’t you...
J.K. ROWLING Myrtle," Harry said slowly, "how am I supposed to breathe?"

At this, Myrtle's eyes filled...
J.K. ROWLING I asked you,” said Moody quietly, “whether he forgave the scum who never even went to look for h...
J.K. ROWLING It suddenly occurred to Harry how odd this would look if a Muggle were to walk up here now … nine ...
J.K. ROWLING Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange t...
J.K. ROWLING giants. They can’t all be horrible. . . . It’s the same sort of prejudice that people have to...
J.K. ROWLING Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?” he asked calmly.
J.K. ROWLING A curly-haired third-year Hufflepuff girl to whom Harry had never spoken in his life asked him to go...
J.K. ROWLING He wanted to end it on his terms, that’s all. . . .
J.K. ROWLING Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive wi...
J.K. ROWLING They sat down at the Gryffindor table and helped themselves to lamb chops and potatoes. Hermione beg...
J.K. ROWLING Both were dressed as Muggles, though very inexpertly: The man with the watch wore a tweed suit with ...
J.K. ROWLING Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just...
J.K. ROWLING I like a healthy breeze ’round my privates, thanks.
J.K. ROWLING Moody limped around the table and bent down; Harry thought he was reading the S.P.E.W. notebook, unt...
J.K. ROWLING Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange t...
J.K. ROWLING Well, they’re okay!” said Ron angrily, looking at Harry’s robes. “Why couldn’t I have some...
J.K. ROWLING Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret …
J.K. ROWLING Aaah, ’at’s be’er,’ said Ron, with his mouth full of mashed potato.
J.K. ROWLING Harry scanned the table more carefully. Tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was sitt...
J.K. ROWLING The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them. “Wangoballwime?” “Sorry?...
J.K. ROWLING Listen,” said Harry firmly. “If you don’t take it, I’m throwing it down the drain. I don’t...
J.K. ROWLING It’s got to be a pretty boring life, hasn’t it, being a hat?
J.K. ROWLING You know, house-elves get a very raw deal!” said Hermione indignantly. “It’s slavery, that’s...
J.K. ROWLING He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out O...
J.K. ROWLING There was no hope . . . no help to be had. And as he heard Voldemort draw nearer still, he knew o...
J.K. ROWLING That woman’s got it in for the Ministry of Magic!” said Percy furiously. “Last week she was sa...
J.K. ROWLING You are blinded,” said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, hi...
J.K. ROWLING I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, ...
J.K. ROWLING E' strano, ma quando si ha paura di qualcosa, e si darebbe tutto per rallentare il tempo, quest'ulti...
J.K. ROWLING Snape, of course, would no sooner let them play games in class than adopt Harry.
J.K. ROWLING But I had my wand hidden up my sleeve," he assured Padma Patil,... [Ron revising the story in the 2n...
J.K. ROWLING A week ago, Harry would have said finding a partner for a dance would be a cinch compared to taking ...
J.K. ROWLING Curiosity is not a sin,” he said. “But we should exercise caution with our curiosity . . . ye...
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find his Wheezy—"
"Find my what?"
"—and take ...
J.K. ROWLING Well, if they’re any bigger than this lot, even Hagrid won’t be able to handle them,” said Har...
J.K. ROWLING Not going to have a very good month, are you?” she said sardonically as Crookshanks curled up in h...
J.K. ROWLING I haven’t got a clue what this lot’s supposed to mean,” he said, staring down at a long list o...
J.K. ROWLING You all righ'?"
"Yeah,"
"No yeh're not... 'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be.
J.K. ROWLING Harry had been picturing his parents’ deaths over and over again for three years now, ever since h...
J.K. ROWLING Not a week has passed since I became headmaster of this school when I haven’t had at least one owl...
J.K. ROWLING That’s not the song it sang when it Sorted us,” said Harry, clapping along with everyone else. �...
J.K. ROWLING Death,
J.K. ROWLING Oh it was my pleasure, dears,” said Mrs. Weasley. “I’d invite you for Christmas, but … well,...
J.K. ROWLING He speaks over two hundred! Mermish and Gobbledegook and Troll …” “Anyone can speak Troll,” ...
J.K. ROWLING Acıyı bir süreliğine uyuşturmak, sonunda onu hissettiğinde daha da büyük acı çekmene yol a...
J.K. ROWLING Ah, this is your cousin, is it, Harry?” said Mr. Weasley, taking another brave stab at making conv...
J.K. ROWLING The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this. It is possible that some of your parents wi...
J.K. ROWLING Thought I’d send this with Pig anyway. Harry stared at the word “Pig,” then looked up at the t...
J.K. ROWLING What’s that?” said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood besid...
J.K. ROWLING The school nurse had seen what Aunt Petunia’s eyes — so sharp when it came to spotting fingerpri...
J.K. ROWLING I will settle, in the short term,” said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, “for...
J.K. ROWLING if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very l...
J.K. ROWLING Mrs. Weasley glanced at the grandfather clock in the corner. Harry liked this clock. It was complete...
J.K. ROWLING It’s all in Hogwarts, A History. Though, of course, that book’s not entirely reliable. A Revised...
J.K. ROWLING So, Harry,' said Dumbledore quietly. "Before you got lost in my thoughts, you wanted to tell me some...
J.K. ROWLING He will stay, Minerva, because he needs to understand,’ said Dumbledore curtly. ‘Understanding i...
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry,' said Dumbledore, twiddling ...
J.K. ROWLING Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the H...
J.K. ROWLING The truth is generally preferable to lies...
J.K. ROWLING Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to b...
J.K. ROWLING If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clo...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up, Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear...
J.K. ROWLING Kill the spare.

-Voldemort
J.K. ROWLING What would come, would come...and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING What he really wanted (and it felt almost shameful to admit it to himself) was someone like — some...
J.K. ROWLING Who’s avoiding you?” said Ron, sitting down next to them. “Wish you would,” said Fred, looki...
J.K. ROWLING We’ve been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually ...
J.K. ROWLING Harry -
I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of st...
J.K. ROWLING He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to him or hit him, both seemed quite appealing...
J.K. ROWLING But I think Durmstrang must be somewhere in the far north," said Hermione thoughtfully. "Somewhere v...
J.K. ROWLING Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.
J.K. ROWLING So...you lot got dates for the ball yet?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"Well, you'd better hurry up m...
J.K. ROWLING Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you’re searching, ...
J.K. ROWLING Harry took a deep, steadying breath and then said, “Okay, I can’t see the World Cup. Can I go no...
J.K. ROWLING A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poison...
J.K. ROWLING Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"

"What's the point?" said Ron. "Yo...
J.K. ROWLING He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip...
J.K. ROWLING Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri...
J.K. ROWLING The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
J.K. ROWLING But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
J.K. ROWLING Giggling should be made illegal.
J.K. ROWLING OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!”
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble st...
J.K. ROWLING There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.
J.K. ROWLING Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I me...
J.K. ROWLING The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate ...
J.K. ROWLING Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hint...
J.K. ROWLING Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ...
J.K. ROWLING Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
J.K. ROWLING Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
J.K. ROWLING We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor.
J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths."

"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
J.K. ROWLING I love magic!
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
J.K. ROWLING