Quotes from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Quotes from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the second novel in the Harry Potter series.

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

Albus Dumbledore

40

Character Decisions

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

Ron Weasley

23

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

Hermione Granger

13

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

Hermione Granger

7

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

4

"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

3

"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

3

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

Fred and George Weasley

3

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

Albus Dumbledore

3

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

3

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

Ron Weasley

2

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

Arthur Weasley

2

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

2

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!"

2

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

Lucius Malfoy

2

Draco Malfoy Hermione Granger

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

Ron Weasley

2

Gilderoy Lockhart

Dear me, what's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?

Lucius Malfoy

1

Mad and hairy? You wouldn’t be talkin' about me, now would ya?

Rubeus Hagrid

1

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

Draco Malfoy

1

Walking & Going

I'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy.

Neville Longbottom

1

Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!

Draco Malfoy

1

Harry: "I wouldn't mind knowing how Riddle got an award for special services to Hogwarts either."
Ron: "Could've been anything. Maybe he got thirty O.W.L.s or saved a teacher from the giant squid. Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favor."

Ron Weasley

1

Professor Flitwick knows more about Entrancing Enchantments than any wizard I've ever met, the sly old dog.

Gilderoy Lockhart

Filius Flitwick

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Albus Dumbledore

Harry gaped at her. Now she said it, that seemed the obvious thing to have done.
"I – I didn't think –"
"That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious."

Minerva McGonagall

Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?

Rubeus Hagrid

Harry James Potter

"Now look, Lucius, if Dumbledore can't stop them -" said Fudge, whose upper lip was sweating now, "I mean to say, who can?"

Cornelius Fudge

Dudley: "I know what day it is."
Harry: "Well done. You've finally learned the days of the week."

Harry James Potter

D'you think we've got nothing better to do in Potions than listen to Snape?

Ron Weasley

You'll meet the same sticky end as your parents one of these days, Harry Potter. They were meddlesome fools, too.

Lucius Malfoy

Harry James Potter

Ah, Mr. Potter… Lucius Malfoy… we meet at last. Forgive me, your scar is legend. As, of course, is the wizard who gave it to you.

Lucius Malfoy

Hagrid: "What're you doin' here? Get outta my house!"
Lucius: "My dear man, please believe me, I have no pleasure at all in being inside your - er - d'you call this a house?"

Lucius Malfoy

It'll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to.

Oliver Wood

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.

Cuthbert Binns

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

Cuthbert Binns

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

Cuthbert Binns

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

Cuthbert Binns

Myths & Legends

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

Cuthbert Binns

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.

Cuthbert Binns

Being able to talk to snakes was what Salazar Slytherin was famous for. That's why the symbol of Slytherin house is a serpent.

Hermione Granger

Well, how is it that you - a skinny boy with no extraordinary magical talent - managed to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?

Voldemort / Tom Riddle

Harry James Potter

What have I told you about saying the "M"-word in our house?

Vernon Dursley

Brilliant! Inspired! What an entrance! Flying a car right into the Whomping Willow, people'll be talking about that one for years.

Isn't it obvious all this stuff's coming from Slytherin? The Heir of Slytherin, the monster of Slytherin - why don't they just chuck all the Slytherins out?

"Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to."
"So no pressure, Harry," said Fred, winking at him.

Fred and George Weasley

I was a Seeker, too. I was asked to try for the National Squad, but preferred to dedicate my life to the eradication of the Dark Forces.

Gilderoy Lockhart

"I didn't think ghosts provided food fit for living people at their parties."
"We weren't hungry," said Ron loudly as his stomach gave a huge rumble.

Ron Weasley

Whoops - my wand is a little over excited!

Gilderoy Lockhart

Harry: "You're running away? After all that stuff you did in your books?"
Lockhart: "Books can be misleading."
Harry: "You wrote them!"

Gilderoy Lockhart

Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him!

Gilderoy Lockhart

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