Book of Quotes

Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

- “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.” 

- “Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.”

- “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"

"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?” 

- “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

- “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"

"Yes."

"You called her a liar?"

"Yes."

"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"

"Yes."

"Have a biscuit, Potter.” 

- “I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"

"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” 

- “You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...” 

- “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!” 

- “Give her hell from us, Peeves.” 

- “Why were you lurking under our window?"

"Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"

"Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.

His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.

"Listening to the news! Again?"

"Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.” 

- “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” 

- “Accio Brain!” 

- “Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones."

"You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.” 

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

- “From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.” 

- “Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!” 

- “Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!"

"Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!"

"Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do."

"Oh, really?"

"Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. 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.” 

- “You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.” 

- “But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.” 

- “Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..."

"Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.”

- “Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?"

Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully.

Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell.

"Because she was crying," Harry continued heavily.

"Oh," said Ron, his smile faded slightly. "Are you that bad at kissing?"

"Dunno," said Harry, who hadn't considered this, and immediately felt rather worried. "Maybe I am.” 

- “The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.”

- “Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. 

"Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles.” 

- “According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.” 

- “Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.” 

- “Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall.

"Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question."

"D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern.

"Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin...” 

- “This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. ” 

- “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

- “By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.”

- “It unscrews the other way.”