J. K. Rowling Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

• We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.72, Hachette UK

• It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Believe, Magic

• Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humble, Magic, Opinion

  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Found, Wands

• Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

  J. K. Rowling

  Music, Magic, Magic Harry Potter

• If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, Reality, Voice

• Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

• But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, People, What If

• Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

  J. K. Rowling

  Music, Eye, Magic

• There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Comedy, Dramatic

• We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Magic, Mcgonagall

• I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Thinking, Magic

• You're a wizard, Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Novelists, Inspirational Harry Potter

• Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Noses, Wizards

• Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Believe, Book

• I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Magic, Fool

• Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. 'Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!

  J. K. Rowling

  Song, Eye, Magic

• You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses. . . I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death — if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Believe, Magic

• Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Causes, Trouble

• The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Sides, Trouble

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.22, Pottermore

• Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Use, Littles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.80, Pottermore

• And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.

  J. K. Rowling

  Loyalty, Children, House

• I really don't believe in magic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Magic, Don't Believe

• Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death Eater’s hood, and last heard that man’s voice jeering in a dark graveyard while Lord Voldemort tortured him. He could not believe that Lucius Malfoy dared look him in the face; he could not believe that he was here, in the Ministry of Magic, or that Cornelius Fudge was talking to him, when Harry had told Fudge mere weeks ago that Malfoy was a Death Eater.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Eye, Dark

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