For those of you who have never read Harry Potter in its entirety, now is a good time.

I’ll share some of my favorite quotes from the books to this thread, as the mood strikes me. To begin:

"I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'" - Hagrid

“I DON'T CARE!’ Harry yelled... ‘I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!’

‘You do care,’ said Dumbledore... His expression was calm, almost detached. ‘You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“The thing about growing up with Fred and George,’ said Ginny thoughtfully, ‘is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”

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

-Albus Dumbledore

“I'm not going to be murdered,”
Harry said out loud.

“That's the spirit, dear,” said his mirror sleepily.

-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

-Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“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.”

-Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

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

-Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone