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Table of Contents | Printable Version Quotations Quotations, in order of their appearance in the book (speaker and significance at bottom) 1. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.” 2. “...No company except stupid people drumming their fingers on the glass trying to disturb it all day long. It was worse than having a cupboard as a bedroom, where the only visitor was Aunt Petunia hammering on the door to wake you up...” 3. “ ‘Of course we knew [you were a wizard]! How could you not be, my dratted sister being what she was? Oh she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that--that school--and came home every vacation with her pockets full of frogspawn, turning teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her for what she was--a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!’ ” 4. “ ‘I really don’t think they should let the other sort in, do you? They’re just not they same, they’ve never been brought up to know our ways.” Some of them have never even heard of Hogwarts until they get the letter, imagine. I think they should keep it in the old Wizarding families. What’s your surname, anyway?’ ” 5. “ “After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things--terrible, yes, but great.’ ”
7. “ ‘Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn’t he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat. Next to him, who would suspect p-p-poor, st-stuttering P-Professor Quirrell?’ ” 8. “ ‘There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.’ ” 9. “ ‘After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.’ ” 10. “ ‘You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. 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.’ ” 11. “ ‘Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.’ ” 12. “ ‘I’ll never drink again!’ ” 1. Narrator, Chapter One. Normality theme. 2. Narrator (Harry’s perspective), Chapter Two. Not very significant, just Harry being the compassionate, sympathetic person he is. 3. Aunt Petunia, Chapter Four. A little glimpse into Petunia’s jealousy of her sister and the attention she got. 4. Draco Malfoy, Chapter Five. Racism and intolerance Themes. 5. Mr. Ollivander, Chapter Five. Morality theme. 6. Hermione, Chapter Nine. Hermione’s original “teacher’s pet” mindset. 7. Quirrell, Chapter Seventeen. Appearances are deceiving theme. 8. Quirrell, Chapter Seventeen. Morality theme. 9. Dumbledore, Chapter Seventeen. Death theme. 10. Dumbledore, Chapter Seventeen. Just Dumbledore pondering the meaning of life. 11. Dumbledore, Chapter Seventeen. Dumbledore’s opinion on calling Voldemort “You-know-who.” 12. Hagrid, Chapter Seventeen. Hagrid feels guilty about endangering Harry’s life. Table of Contents | Printable Version | |
