The Hogwarts Library Quotes

“la nueva traducción de los cuentos, obra de Hermione Granger.”
― J.K. Rowling, Colección biblioteca de Hogwarts: Harry Potter Colección de la Biblioteca Hogwarts (Un libro de la biblioteca de Hogwarts)

“This exchange marked the beginning of Mr Malfoy’s long campaign to have me removed from my post as Headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort’s Favourite Death Eater.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Hogwarts Library Collection

“legs was no guarantee that a magical creature could or would take an interest in the affairs of wizard government. Embittered, Burdock Muldoon forswore any further attempts to integrate non-wizard members of the magical community into the Wizards’ Council. Muldoon’s successor, Madame Elfrida Clagg, attempted to redefine ‘beings’ in the hope of creating closer ties with other magical creatures. ‘Beings’, she declared, were those who could speak the human tongue. All those who could make themselves understood to Council members were therefore invited to join the next meeting. Once again, however, there were problems. Trolls who had been taught a few simple sentences by the goblins proceeded to destroy the hall as before. Jarveys raced around the Council’s chair legs, tearing at as many ankles as they could reach. Meanwhile a large delegation of ghosts (who”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“. In the absence of magic, Chizpurfles have been known to attack electrical objects from within (for a fuller understanding of what electricity is, see Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles, Wilhelm Wigworthy, Little Red Books, 1987). Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artefacts.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“In 1419, the Council issued the famously worded decree that Quidditch should not be played “anywhere near any place where there is the slightest chance that a Muggle might be watching or we’ll see how well you can play whilst chained to a dungeon wall.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“Quidditch unites witches and wizards from all walks of life, bringing us together to share moments of exhilaration, triumph and (for those who support the Chudley Cannons) despair.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“Canada has given us three of the most accomplished Quidditch teams in the world: the Moose Jaw Meteorites, the Haileybury Hammers, and the Stonewall Stormers.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“In 1967 the broom world was galvanised by the formation of the Nimbus Racing Broom Company. Nothing like the Nimbus 1000 had ever been seen before. Reaching speeds of up to a hundred miles per hour, capable of turning 360 degrees at a fixed point in mid-air, the Nimbus combined the reliability of the old Oakshaft 79 with the easy handling of the best Cleansweeps. The Nimbus immediately became the broom preferred by professional Quidditch teams across Europe, and the subsequent models (1001, 1500, and 1700) have kept the Nimbus Racing Broom Company at the top of the field.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“Dried Billywig stings are used in several potions and are believed to be a component in the popular sweet Fizzing Whizzbees.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“XX Harmless/may be domesticated”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“XXX Competent wizard should cope”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“XXXX Dangerous/requires specialist knowledge/skilled wizard may handle”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“XXXXX Known wizard killer/impossible to train or domesticate”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“One modern-day wizard who held very similar views was, of course, Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Order of Merlin (First Class), Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“Me and me dad like watching them Keepers flattened. I don’t want to go to Quidditch no more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“I’ve read worse.” — Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“Ministry of Magic (M.O.M.)”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“Meanwhile the world’s largest kelpie continues to evade capture in Loch Ness and appears to have developed a positive thirst for publicity.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“Herpo the Foul’s Basilisk is believed to have lived for close on nine hundred years. The creation of Basilisks has been illegal since medieval times,”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“I’ve read worse.”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library

“The first recorded Basilisk was bred by Herpo the Foul, a Greek Dark wizard and Parselmouth, who discovered after much experimentation that a chicken egg hatched beneath a toad would produce a gigantic serpent possessed of extraordinarily dangerous powers. The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty feet in length. The male has”
― J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts Library