The best Quotes by Lily Potter

Harry: "Why are you here? All of you?"
Lily: "We never left."

You call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?

"You're a witch," whispered Snape. She looked affronted.
"That's not a very nice thing to say to somebody!"

You think you're funny. But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone.

James Potter: "Apologise to Evans!"
Lily Evans: "I don't want you to make him apologise. You're as bad as he is."

James Potter: "You're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus -"
Severus Snape: "I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!"
Lily Evans: "Fine. I won't bother in future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus."

Severus Snape: "I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just -"
Lily Evans: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends... you've chosen your way, I've chosen mine."

Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can - I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me sick.

Severus Snape: "He fancies you, James Potter fancies you! And he's not... everyone thinks... big Quidditch hero -"
Lily Evans: "I know James Potter's an arrogant toerag. I don't need you to tell me that."

Not Harry! Please... have mercy... have mercy... not Harry! Not Harry! Please - I'll do anything...

"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote to the Headmaster and begged him to take you." Petunia turned scarlet.

Your father's coming... hold on for your father... it will be all right.... hold on...

Beste Freunde? Das sind wir, Sev, aber ich mag eben manche von den Leuten nicht, mit denen du rumhängst! Tut mir leid, aber ich hasse Avery und Mulciber!

You didn't just lose a mother that night in Godric's Hollow, you know. I lost a sister.

Lily: "Does it make a difference, being Muggle-born?"
Severus: "No. It doesn't make any difference."

Don't be a fool. Better save your own life and join me... or you'll meet the same end as your parents... they died begging me for mercy.

Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off -

You shouldn't have favourites as a teacher, of course, but she was one of mine. Your mother. Lily Evans. One of the brightest I ever taught. Vivacious, you know. Charming girl. I used to tell her she ought to have been in my House. Very cheeky answers I used to get back too.

Harry Potter: "How come she married him? She hated him!"
Sirius Black : "Nah, she didn't."
Remus Lupin: "She started going out with him in seventh year."

Your parents gave their lives to keep you alive, Harry. A poor way to repay them - gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks.

Lily Evans: "Doesn't your dad like magic?"
Severus Snape: "He doesn't like anything, much."

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."

I was the only one who saw her for what she was... a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!

How could you not be, my dratted sister being what she was? Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that - that school - and came home every holiday with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her for what she was - a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!

Lily and James... I can't believe it... I don't want to believe it.

Lily: "You've been so brave."
James: "You are nearly there. Very close. We are... so proud of you."

Harry: "You'll stay with me?"
James: "Until the very end."

Lily Evans: "Leave him alone. What's he done to you?"
James Potter: "Well, it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean..."

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.

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

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.

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.

"You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!" screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart.

Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn't fair.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

Crabbe, loosen your hold a little. If Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork.

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

Vernon: "Anyway, it's not as if there'd be anything about his lot on our news -"
Petunia: "Vernon, shh! The window's open!"

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

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.

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

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

Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question. One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin.

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

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

I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.