Harry Potter Quotes

“Several boys about Harry’s age had their noses pressed against a window with broomsticks in it. ‘Look,’ Harry heard one of them say, ‘the new Nimbus Two Thousand – fastest ever –’ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“The witches are depicted as old and hunched, carrying a stick alongside their familiars: birds, goats, a many-legged sort of fish-cat and the devil himself.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“provider of chocolate in a crisis…”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“what is the creature that walks first on four legs, then on two legs and lastly on three? The answer is man – you start off crawling as a baby, then you walk, then you walk with a stick.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“Accusations of witchcraft were a way for societies to control what they viewed as ‘disruptive’ female behaviour. What often started as an opportunistic way of getting a woman out of the way became a cultural contagion with little or no rational explanation”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“In the 17th century and beyond, women were often disenfranchised and vulnerable within wider society, along with the disabled and mentally ill. They were easy targets and that’s what we’ve seen in the iconography of witchcraft ever since: the witch with a walking stick is really a vulnerable old woman.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“Argus’ was a giant of classical mythology who had a hundred eyes. He was known as the ‘all-seeing one’,”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“people’s”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love...”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“Spells like these weren’t supplications or prayers, but commands to demonic entities. To get a demon to obey you, you needed two things: the demon’s full and exact name, and a physical way to make sure it did as it was told. So, in this case, the magical papyrus recipe book gave you the demon’s name and the correct incantation, while the iron ring was the target of the magic that established a physical bond. It was intended that the ring be hidden in the ground in order to prevent something from happening. By inscribing and burying the ring, the owner could specify, for example, that they did not want a rival to be lucky in love.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“We’ve seen how charms could be used for transfiguring into other creatures and transporting yourself into new magical places, but there were also charms that could be used for more malign purposes, such as getting the upper hand over your enemies. There was a charm from the Egyptian city of Thebes, dating from the 4th century AD, which let you do just that. In the papyrus document later found that described it, there were seven pages of incantations, which included charms to discover thieves and to reveal the secret thoughts of men. The spells and charms were written in Ancient Greek and one page showed you how to transform a ring into a charm.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“Known today for its use by stage magicians when they perform illusions, ‘Abracadabra’ is probably familiar to us all. But it has more sinister connotations as well. Londoners used to paint it on their doors to ward off the plague in the 17th century. The infamous 20th-century English occultist Aleister Crowley believed it to be a word that held great power.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

“To become invisible, to make someone fall in love with you, to transform into another creature – these are all things that people have believed in, yearned for or feared throughout history. There’s nothing more magical than a magic charm.”
― Pottermore Publishing, Harry Potter: A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts