Harry Potter Quotes

Favorite Quotes by Severus Snape

"Harry Potter - Our new celebrity."

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"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."

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"Fascinating though your social life undoubtedly is, Miss Granger, I must ask you not to discuss it in my class. Ten points from Gryffindor."

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"Or maybe, he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train."

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"Don't go blaming Dumbledore for Potter's determination to break rules. He has been crossing lines ever since he arrived here."

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"You have a habit of turning up in unexpected places, Potter, and you are very rarely there for no good reason."

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"Moronic though some of this class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an 'Acceptable' in your O.W.L., or suffer my... displeasure."

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"The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible."

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"Another ten points from Gryffindor. I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room."

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"DON'T CALL ME A COWARD!"

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"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."

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"Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!"

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"The Dark Lord, for instance, almost always knows when somebody is lying to him. Only those skilled at Occlumency are able to shut down those feelings and memories that contradict the lie, and to utter falsehoods in his presence without detection."

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"Oh, very good," interrupted Snape, his lip curling. "Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent.'"

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"Look...at...me..." he [Snape] whispered.
The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, bland, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.

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"Always."

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