It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
Books and cleverness. There are more important things. Friendship and bravery.
A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention would find you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God, I miss the screaming.
She needs to sort out her priorities.[Hermione Granger: Now, if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or worse, expelled.]
Honestly, don’t you two read?[to Harry and Ron]
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret. So, naturally, the whole school knows.[to Harry]
There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it.
I think we’ve had a bad influence on her.[to Harry, about Hermione]
Watch now on:
I shouldn’t have told you that.[repeated line]
The happiest man on earth would look into the mirror and see only himself, exactly as he is.
Only a person who wanted to find the Stone, find it, but not use it, would be able to get it. That is one of my more brilliant ideas. And between you and me, that is saying something.[to Harry]
Not all wizards are good. Some of them go bad.