Quotes and Sayings about Hogwarts

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.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Magic, both beautiful and powerful, binds together our long history. That common bond we share is the legacy of Hogwarts.

Hermione: "Feels strange to be going home, doesn't it?"
Harry: "I'm not going home. Not really."

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

Can you believe this place? They got pint-sized little witches and wizards running around here.

"Voldemort was, I believe, more attached to this school than he has ever been to a person. Hogwarts was where he had been happiest; the first and only place he had felt at home."
Harry felt slightly uncomfortable at these words, for this was exactly how he felt about Hogwarts, too.

Every corridor, every portrait, every stone in this castle tells the story of witches and wizards who came before. Here you will meet lifelong friends and grow into your own magical abilities in the class rooms of the worlds most talented professors.

Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose ancestry is purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest."
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those with brave deeds to their name,"
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same."

In times of old when I was new
And Hogwarts barely started
The founders of our noble school
Thought never to be parted:
United by a common goal,
They had the selfsame yearning,
To make the world's best magic school
And pass along their learning.

Hogwarts isn't actually that pleasant a place when you don't fit in.

Gringotts is the safest place in the world for something you want to hide - except perhaps Hogwarts.

By Gryffindor, the bravest were prized far beyond the rest;
For Ravenclaw, the cleverest would always be the best;
For Hufflepuff, hard workers were most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition.

Every day, every hour, this very minute, perhaps, dark forces attempt to penetrate this castle's walls. But in the end, their greatest weapon is you.

It's beautiful, isn't it? I'll never forget the first time I walked through those doors.

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts
Teach us something please
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff
For now they're bare and full of air
Dead flies and bits of fluff
So teach us something worth knowing
Bring us back what we've forgot
Just do your best, we'll do the rest
And learn until our brains all rot

A thousand years or more ago,
When I was newly sewn,
There lived four wizards of renown,
Whose name are still well-known:

Bold Gryffindor from wild moor,
Fair Ravlenclaw from glen,
Sweet Hufflepuff from valley broad,
Shrewd Slytherin from fen.

They share a wish, a hope, a dream,
They hatched a daring plan,
To educate young sorcerers,
Thus Hogwarts school began.

Ron: "Hermione's allowed in our dormitory, how come we're not allowed -?"
Hermine: "Well, it's an old-fashioned rule. But it says in Hogwarts: A History, that the founders thought boys were less trustworthy than girls."

At Hogwarts, you'll be taught not only how to use magic, but how to control it.

If you want to get the most out of your time at Hogwarts you're going to need to break the rules now and then.

Word travels fast at Hogwarts.

Hogwarts is full of bullies and spoilsports.

There's Phineas Nigellus... my great-great-grandfather, see? ... least popular Headmaster Hogwarts ever had.

Hogwarts should be Dumbledore's final resting place.

I never thought my life would turn out to be anything but normal. Until the day I recieved a very curious letter.

I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts' secrets.

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

Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts.

It is too 'eavy, all zis 'Ogwarts food. I will not fit into my dress robes!

"And here are the Gryffindors!" yelled Lee Jordan, who was acting as a commentator as usual. "Potter, Bell, Johnson, Spinnet, Weasley, Weasley and Wood. Widely aknowledged as the best side Hogwarts has seen in a good few years.

If you're going to tell me my life would be more peaceful at that pestilential school, you can save your breath, Albus!

"Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!"

Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts."

The best wizarding school is Hogwarts.

He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world.

Harry barely slept that night. When he awoke on Monday morning, he seriously considered for the first time ever just running away from Hogwarts. But as he looked around the Great Hall at breakfast time, and thought about what leaving the castle would mean, he knew he couldn't do it. It was the only place he had ever been happy.

Lily: "I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
Petunia: "That's where you're going. A special school for freaks."

That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy… weirdos, that's what you two are. It's good you're being separated from normal people. It's for our safety.

Oh, know the perils, read the signs,
The warning history shows,
For our Hogwarts is in danger
From external, deadly foes
And we must unite inside her
Or we'll crumble from within
I have told you, I have warned you...
Let the Sorting now begin.

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

There is no light without shadow as there is no shadow without light. Simply because you can eliminate darkness does not always mean that you should.

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

You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness.

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

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

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

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

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.

My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.