50 Inspirational Harry Potter Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Magic

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J.K. Rowling

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

- J.K. Rowling

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."

- Albus Dumbledore

"If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin."

- Albus Dumbledore

"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."

- Sirius Black

"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."

- Albus Dumbledore

"It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

- Albus Dumbledore

"We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."

- Albus Dumbledore

"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on."

- Sirius Black

"Always"

- Severus Snape

"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are."

- Sirius Black

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."

- Albus Dumbledore

"It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- J. K. Rowling

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the lights."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Always."

- Severus Snape

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and most of all, pity the ones who live without love."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Dark and difficult times lie ahead, soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Lily, after all this time? "Always""

- Severus Snape

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers."

- Remus Lupin

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

- Albus Dumbledore

"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery…"

- Hermione Granger

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. And above all, pity those who live without love."

- Albus Dumbledore

"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"After all this time? – Always."

- Severus Snape

"The ones that love us never really leave us."

- Sirius Black

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

- Sirius Black

"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Yer a wizard Harry."

- Rubeus Hagrid

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

- Albus Dumbledore

"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."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open"

- Albus Dumbledore

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

- J.K. Rowling

"Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself."

- Hermione Granger

"I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'"

- Rubeus Hagrid

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

- Albus Dumbledore

"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

- Kingsley Shacklebolt

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

- J.K. Rowling

"This memory is everything. Without it, we are blind. Without it, we leave the fate of our world to chance. You have no choice. You must not fail."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

- Albus Dumbledore

"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! It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"

- Albus Dumbledore

"It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers."

- Remus Lupin

"If you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us too!"

- Ron Weasley

"We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago — years, really."

- Hermione Granger

"What’s life without a little risk?"

- Sirius Black

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."

- J. K. Rowling

"We’re with you whatever happens."

- Ron Weasley

"As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all – the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect"

- Luna Lovegood

"I am not worried, Harry…I am with you"

- Albus Dumbledore

"Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve."

- Ginny Weasley

"You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve."

- Ginny Weasley

"Curiosity is not a sin… But we should exercise it with caution."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

- Albus Dumbledore

"There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Albus Dumbledore

"Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Now as you know, each and every one of you was searched upon your arrival here tonight and you have the right to know why. Once there was a young man, who like you, sat in this very hall, walked this castle's corridors, slept under its roofs. He seemed to all the world a student like any other. His name: Tom Riddle. Today, of course, he's known all over the world by another name, which is why, as I stand looking out upon you all tonight, I'm reminded of a sobering fact: Every day, every hour, this very minute, perhaps, dark forces attempt to penetrate this castle's walls.But in the end, their greatest weapon... is you. Now, off to bed, pip-pip."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Yer a wizard, Harry."

- Rubeus Hagrid

"The wand chooses the wizard."

- Mr. Ollivander

"The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

- J.K. Rowling

"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 Granger

"Dobby never meant to kill! Dobby only meant to maim, or seriously injure!"

- Dobby

"You’re saying it wrong. It’s leviOsa, not levioSA."

- Hermione Granger

"You shall not harm Harry Potter!"

- Dobby

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled."

- Hermione Granger

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."

- J. K. Rowling

"I don’t think you’re a waste of space."

- Dudley Dursley

"Don’t let the muggles get you down."

- Ron Weasley

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed."

- Hermione Granger

"Not my daughter, you b*tch!"

- Molly Weasley

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain."

- Arthur Weasley

"Dobby is free."

- Dobby

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"

- Albus Dumbledore

"You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary."

- Ron Weasley

"There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it."

- Lord Voldemort

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

- The Gryffindors

"I've had enough trouble for a lifetime."

- Harry Potter

"I've always wanted to use that spell!"

- Minerva McGonagall

"You may not like him, minister, but you cannot deny that Dumbledore's got style."

- Kingsley Shacklebolt

"Being me has it's privileges."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

- J.K. Rowling

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

"This pain is part of being human…the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength."

"While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one."

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."