Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"[When cornering Harry under a Mistletoe] I really like you, Harry..."

"There is a time for speech-making, but this is not it. Tuck in!"

"Youth can not 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..."

"I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing."

"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 more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of 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."

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

"It meant that the only person who has the chance of conquering Lord Voldemort for good was born at the end of July nearly sixteen years ago. This boy would be born to parents who have already defied Voldemort three times."

"The odd thing is, Harry, that it may not have meant you at all. Sybil's prophecy could have referred to wizard boys; both born at the end of July that year, both sets of parents' in the Order of the Phoenix, both sets of parents having defied Voldemort three times. One, of course, was you, the other was Neville Longbottom."

"The official record was relabeled after Voldemort's attack on you as a child. It seemed clear to the keeper of the Hall of Prophecy that Voldemort could only have tried to kill you because he knew you to be the one to whom Sybil was referring."

"I am afraid...that there is no doubt that it is you."

"He heard only the first part; the part foretelling a boy born to parents' who have thrice defied Voldemort. Consequently, he could not warn his master that to attack you was to risk transferring power to you. So Voldemort never knew that there might be danger in attacking you, that it might be wise to wait or to learn more. He did know that you would have "power the Dark Lord knows not."

"Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... but I mustn't get my hopes up."

"Keep muttering and I will be a murderer! [To Kreacher, calling Sirius a murderer to himself.]"

"[Kreacher- ...the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black-] And it's getting blacker everyday! It's filthy!"

"[To Kreacher, and taken very literally] GET OUT!"

"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."

"Thanks for the book Harry! I've been wanting that New Theory of Numerology for ages! And that perfume is really unusual, Ron."

"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 saving-people thing?"

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

"Ron, just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."

"[On how Ginny's flying and seeking abilities were so good] She's been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren't looking."

"But there are twenty-eight of us and none of us is an Animagus, so we wouldn't need so much an Invisibility Cloak as an Invisibility Marquee."

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

"[To Harry, about the Thestrals] I've been able to see them ever since my first day here. Don't worry, you're just as sane as I am."

"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."

"There's nothing you can do, Harry... nothing... he's gone."

"[talking to Peeves who was trying to sabotage a chandelier] It unscrews the other way."

"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 --"

"I wonder, how you can 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."

"[talking to Umbridge] 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."

"Are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores?"

"Dean Thomas, if you do that to the mouse again I shall put you in detention."

"Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked so easily - weak people in other words-..."

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."

"[Talking to Umbridge, who is demanding he provide a bottle of truth serum to interrogate Harry] I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter- and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did- I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling."

"Crabbe, loosen your hold a little. If Longbottom suffocates, it means a tedious amount of paperwork and I do have to mention it on your reference if you ever apply for a job."

"I think I do see something!! Something that concerns you. I see something, something dark. Some gave peril. I am afraid...I am afraid that you are in grave danger."

"(During his Divination OWL) He might as well have tried to see moving pictures on the desktop as in the stubbornly blank crystal ball; he lost his head completely during tea-leaf reading, saying it looked to him as though Professor Marchbanks would shortly be meeting a round, dark, soggy stranger, and rounded off the whole fiasco by mixing up the life and head lines on her palm and informing her that she ought to have died the previous Tuesday."

"(After being mocked by Dudley) What d'you mean I'm not brave?"

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

"It means...me?"

"But he might have chosen wrong. He might have marked the wrong person."

""The end of the prophecy. It was something about...neither can live..."

"So...does that mean that one of us has got to destroy the other in the end?"

"But I don't!! I haven't any powers he hasn't got!! I couldn't fight the way he did tonight!! I can't possess people or kill them!!"

"Very clean, aren't they, these Muggles? My dad's Muggle-born and he's a right old slob. I suppose it varies, just as it does with wizards?"

"Ah well...wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? OK, let's go. Locomotor trunk."

"ARE YOU MAD, MAD-EYE?"

"If you shout his name I will curse you into oblivion."

"I'm sure I must have misunderstood you, Professor Dumbledore, so silly of me. But it sounded for a teensy moment as though you were suggesting that the Ministry of Magic had ordered an attack on this boy!"