The best Quotes by Cuthbert Binns

Today, they suffered three quarters of an hour's droning on the subject of giant wars. Harry heard just enough within the first ten minutes to appreciate dimly that in another teacher's hands this subject might have been mildly interesting.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Professor Binns was the only ghost teacher, and the most exciting thing that ever happened in his classes was his entering the room through the blackboard.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed that magical learning should be kept within all-magic families.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Slytherin

The four school houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Hogwarts

Professor Binns raised his eyes from his notes, looking amazed, as always, to find the room in front of him full of people.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff-room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

My subject is History of Magic. I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Myths & Legends

Professor Binns was looking at her in such amazement, Harry was sure no student had ever interrupted him before, alive or dead.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Professor Binns opened his notes and began to read in a flat drone like an old vacuum cleaner until nearly everyone in the class was in a deep stupor, occasionally coming round long enough to copy down a name or date, then falling asleep again.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

"Follow the spiders"... Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies"?

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Spiders

Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.

Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Names

At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in. They got in on pure talent.

Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Draco Malfoy Gryffindor

If we're not careful, we'll have another Head Boy in the family. I don't think I could stand the shame.

Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Ron Weasley

"You won't tease him, will you?" she added anxiously.
"Wouldn't dream of it," said Fred, who was looking as if his birthday had come early.
"Definitely not," said George, sn*ggering.

Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Percy Weasley

"Percy's been acting very oddly this summer," said George, frowning. "And he has been sending a lot of letters and spending a load of time shut up in his room... I mean, there's only so many times you can polish a prefect badge."

Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Percy Weasley

Make way for the heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through!

Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Hogwarts

Harry: "Where's Snape?"
Ron: "Maybe he's ill!"
Harry: "Maybe he's left!"
Ron: "Or he might have been sacked! I mean, everyone hates him-"
Snape: "Or maybe he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train."

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"A study of Hogwarts' Prefects and their later careers," Ron read aloud off the back cover. "That sounds fascinating."

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!

Arthur Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Brain

Dobby never meant to kill. Dobby only meant to... just maim or seriously injure.

Dobby in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Myrtle: "D'you think I don't know what people call me behind my back? Fat Myrtle! Ugly Myrtle! Miserable, moaning, moping Myrtle!"
Peeves: "You've forgotten pimply!"

Peeves in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Moaning Myrtle

I would have thought you'd be ashamed that a girl of no wizard family beat you in every exam.

Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Draco Malfoy Hermione Granger

You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Harry James Potter in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Voldemort / Tom Riddle

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Morality

Ron: "One person couldn't feel all that. They'd explode."
Hermione: "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have!"

Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Ron Weasley

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

"E" for "Exceeds Expectations". And I've always thought Fred and I should've got "E" in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Dreaming

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Voldemort / Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Power Good & Evil

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Spirit Death

Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.

Harry James Potter in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Severus Snape Albus Dumbledore Albus Severus Potter Slytherin

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Home Hogwarts

The king is a man, and a man can fail. But a myth is indestructible.

Rebel Moon - Part One - A Child of Fire

Kings Myths & Legends

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"Me?", said Hermione, "Books and cleverness. There are more important things: friendship and bravery."

Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Courage Friendship

I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

Harry James Potter in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Hermione Granger

Don't get lulled into a false sense of security, thinking he's out of the country. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Severus Snape

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.

Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Values

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Neville Longbottom Funny Insults

My mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the way we expect.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Dreaming

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Teams

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Kindness

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