Happy Birthday, Harry Potter! 35 Quotes To Celebrate J.K. Rowling’s Birthday
Happy birthday, Harry Potter! The boy wizard is a boy no more. The character from the famous magical series turned 35 Friday. He also happens to share a birthday with J.K. Rowling, the English author of the beloved “Harry Potter” series. She turned the big 5-0. To celebrate the half-blood prince’s birthday, 35 quotes the films and books have been shared below, courtesy of Good Reads and Huffington Post.
1. “ You’re a wizard, Harry.” -- Hagrid [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]
2. “Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember… I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter… After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.” --Mr. Ollivander [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone]
3. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” --J.K. Rowling [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]
4. “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” --Albus Dumbledore [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]
5. “It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities.” --Albus Dumbledore [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]
6. "Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew.” --Dobby [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]
7. “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]
8. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]
9. "Happiness can be found it the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” --Albus Dumbledore [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]
10. "Mischief managed." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]
11. “What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.” --J.K. Rowling [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]
12. "I didn't put my name in that cup, I don't want eternal glory." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]
13. “It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.” --J.K. Rowling, [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]
14. “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” --Sirius Black [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]
15. "Hey! My eyes aren't 'glistening with the ghosts of my past'!" --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]
16. "The prophecy said: neither one can live for the other one survives. It means one of us is gonna have to kill the other in the end."--Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
17. "Facing this stuff in real life is not like school. In school if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there when you're a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes, you don't know what that's like." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
18. "Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
19. "I just feel so... angry, all the time., and what if after everything I've been through, something's gone wrong inside me. What if I'm becoming bad?"--Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
20. "Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us?" --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
21. “Things have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always the way we expect.” --Luna Lovegood [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
22. "Even though we got a fight ahead of us, we've got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have. Something worth fighting for." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
23. "You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
24. “Sorry, Professor, but I must not tell lies.”--Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
25. “An invisible barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was – he had always been a marked man.” --J.K. Rolwing, [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
26. “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” --Albus Dumbledore [Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince]
27. "It's true. I am the Chosen One, only I can destroy him, but in order to do so, I need to know what Tom Riddle asked you all those years ago in your office, and I need to know what you told him. Be brave, sir. Be brave like my mother."--Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]
28. “Dobby never meant to kill. Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure” --Dobby [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1]
29. "Dumbledore trusted me to see this through...I'm not interested in what happened between you and your brother. I don't care that you've given up. I trusted the man I knew." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]
30. "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.” --Dumbledore [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]
31. "What if that wand never belonged to Snape? What if its allegiance was always to someone else? Come on, Tom, let's finish this the way we started: together!" --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]
32. "If it really means that much to you, you can choose Gryffindor. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]
33. "There's a reason I can hear them, the horcruxes. I think I've known for a while, and I think you have too." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]
34. "Albus Severus Potter, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was the bravest man I ever knew." --Harry Potter [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]
35. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earthy should that mean it’s not real?” --Dumbledore [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]
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