Here are some quotes that we found to be quite powerful in evoking the reader's emotions.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Philosopher's Stone

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -Dumbledore

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

"When a wizard goes over to the dark side there's nothin', and no one matters to 'em anymore." -Hagrid

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them." -Dumbledore

"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself." -Dumbledore

"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort can't understand, its love." -Dumbledore

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

"I will only truly have left this school none here are loyal to me... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it." -Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

"You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!" -Sirius Black

"I'm not blamin' yeh...but I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two'd value yer friend more'n broomsticks or rats. Tha's all." -Hagrid

"What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? Only innocent lives, Peter." -Sirius Black

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. - Dumbledore

"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory." -Dumbledore

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. - Dumbledore

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! - Dumbledore

There was no point in worrying yet.... what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did.

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." -Sirius Black

"Imagine that Voldemort’s powerful now. You don’t know who his supporters are, you don’t know who’s working for him and who isn’t; you know he can control people so that they do terrible things without being able stop themselves. You’re scared for yourself, and your family, and your friends. Every week, news comes of more deaths, more disappearances, more torturing ... The Ministry of Magic’s in disarray, they don’t know what to do, they’re trying to keep everything hidden from the Muggles, but meanwhile, Muggles are dying too. Terror everywhere ... panic ... confusion ... that’s how it used to be." - Sirius Black

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"God rest ye Merry Hippogriff"- Sirius Black

Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard.

No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end. - Luna Lovegood

"You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed over the top of the shield. "Above such brutality, are you?"
"We both know there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom." Dumbledore said calmly. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit – "
"There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" snarled Voldemort.
"You are quite wrong," said Dumbledore, still closing in upon Voldemort and speaking as lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks. Harry felt scared to see him walking along, undefended, shieldless. He wanted to cry out a warning, but his headless guard kept shunting him backward toward the wall, blocking his every attempt to get out from behind it. "Indeed your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness –"

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I don't mean to be rude -" he began in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
"- yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

"It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - particularly after what happened at the Ministry." - McGonagall

"I haven't forgotten, Minister. . . ."
He raised his right fist. There, shining white on the back of his cold hand, were the scars which Dolores Umbridge had forced him to carve into his own flesh: I must not tell lies.

"Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it," Mr. Weasley said in a constricted voice. "Well, all I can say is that it was a lucky day for the Weasley's when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the Hogwarts Express, Harry."

Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.

"It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into an arena of to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world."

"But your blood is worth more than mine" - Dumbledore

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - Dumbledore

'We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...'
"I am not worried, Harry,' said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. 'I am with you.'

"Good evening, Amycus," said Dumbledore, camly, as thought welcoming the man to a tea party. "And you've brought Alecto, too... Charming..."
The woman gave an angry little titter. "Think your jokes'll help you on your deathbed then?"
"Jokes? No, no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quiet softly.
“Severus...”
The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading.
Snape said nothing, but walked forward and pushed Malfoy roughly out of the way. The three Death Eaters fell back without a word. Even the werewolf seemed cowed.
Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was a revulsion and hatred etched in the hard lines of his face.
“Severus... please...”
Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
“Avada Kedavra!"

"To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this, but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. - R.A.B"

"You see!" said a strained voice. Tonks was glaring at Lupin. "She still wants to marry him, even though he's been bitten! She doesn't care!"
"It's different," said Lupin, barely moving his lips and looking suddenly tense. "Bill will not be a full werewolf. The cases are completely -"
"But I don't care either, I don't care!" said Tonks, seizing the front of Lupin's robes and shaking them. "I've told you a million times ...."
(a paragraph later)
"And I've told you a million times," said Lupin, refusing to meet her eyes, staring at the floor, "that I am too old for you, too poor... too dangerous...."

"... but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone."
"He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him," said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon for ever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one: that the shelter of a parent's arms meant that nothing could hurt him.

"We'll be there, Harry," said Ron
"What?"
At your aunt's and uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going."
"No-"
"You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?"
"We're with you whatever happens."

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