"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
— J.K. Rowling

"Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"It's going to be alright sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..."

"I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"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."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"It is nothing to be feared, just a dead body. Nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

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

"This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard."
— J.K. Rowling

"The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt"
— J.K. Rowling

"P.S. I enjoy acid pops."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed."
— J.K. Rowling

"Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

""Ah, music, A magic far beyond all we do here!""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way to obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)