Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Quotes

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

That's chess! You've got to make some sacrifices!

I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.

"Yes, him - Snape said he hates me because he hated my father. Is that true?"
"Well, they did rather detest each other. Not unlike yourself and Mr Malfoy. And then, your father did something Snape could never forgive."
"What?"
"He saved his life."
"What?"
"Yes ..." said Dumbledore dreamily. "Funny, the way people's minds work, isn't it?"

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

Humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things which are worst for them.

"Harry — you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and —"

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

"You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid — we know we're called Gred and Forge."

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

Wingardium Leviosa!' he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill.
'You're saying it wrong,' Harry heard Hermione snap. 'It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the "gar" nice and long.'
'You do it, then, if you're so clever,' Ron snarled.
Hermione rolled up the sleeves of her gown, flicked her wand and said, Wingardium Leviosa!'
Their feather rose off the desk and hovered about four feet above their heads.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.

'Ah, yes,' he said softly, 'Harry Potter. Our new — celebrity.'

Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember... I think we must expect great things from you, Mr Potter... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.

Enter stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned; beware
Of finding more than treasure there.

Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London Underground.

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution..."

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