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Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.
Sep 10, 2025
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.
Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!
The stories we love best do live in us forever.
What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.
I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days." "Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!" "It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley. George's fingers groped for the side of his head. "Saintlike," he murmured. "What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?" "Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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