Best Quidditch Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Although I have removed the usual library-book spells from this volume, I cannot promise that every trace has gone. Madam Pince has been known to add unusual jinxes to the books in her care. I myself doodled absent-mindedly on a copy of Theories of Transubstantial Transfiguration last year and next moment found the book beating me fiercely around the head.”

Humor Harry Potter Dumbledore Quidditch Kennilworthy Whisp Madam Pince

Author:Albus Dumbledore J.K. Rowling

“Please be careful how you treat this book. Do not rip out the pages. Do not drop it in the bath. I cannot promise that Madam Pince will not swoop down on you, wherever you are, and demand a heavy fine.”

Humor Harry Potter Dumbledore Quidditch Kennilworthy Whisp Madam Pince

Author:Albus Dumbledore J.K. Rowling

“All that remains is for me to thank you for supporting Comic Relief and to beg Muggles not to try Quidditch at home; it is, of course, an entirely fictional sport and nobody really plays it. May I also take this opportunity to wish Puddlemere United the best of luck next season.”

Humour Harry Potter Dumbledore Quidditch Kennilworthy Whisp

Author:Albus Dumbledore J.K. Rowling

“No, no, no. I tried to kill you. Your friend Miss Granger accidentally knocked me over as she rushed to set fire to Snape at that Quidditch match. She broke my eye contact with you. Another few seconds and I'd have got you off that broom. I'd have managed it before then if Snape hadn't been muttering a counter-curse, trying to save you.”

Snape Quidditch Quirrell

Book:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Guthrie Lochrin, a Scottish wizard writing in 1107, spoke of the 'splinter-filled buttocks and bulging piles' he suffered after a short broom ride from Montrose to Arbroath.”

Humour Harry Potter Wizard Quidditch Jk Rowling Broomstick Kennilworthy Whisp

Book:Quidditch Through the Ages

Source: Quidditch Through the Ages

“We're coming for you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and Dad reckon it's better if we pretend to ask their permission first. If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday. If they say no, send Pig back pronto and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday anyway.”

World Cup Ron Weasley Quidditch

Book:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I don't care if you fall off your broom as long as you catch the Snitch first.”

Harry Potter Wood Quidditch Firebolt Oliver Wood

Author:J.K. Rowling

“I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.”

“You always know when one of the first ["Harry Potter" movies] are on TV, because you'll get a text message from one of your friends saying, "How high was your voice?" It's like watching a home movie, in some sense. But you just remember because the audience sees the scenes as they're written, but we remember shooting [the scenes] and all the stories that came around it. Like the Quidditch World Cup in ["Harry Potter and the] Goblet of Fire," it's like the Glastonbury Festival at Leavesden [Studios].”

“Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Long Care Winning Bits Alive News Caught Priorities Cups Staying Professors Bad News Staying Alive Snitch Mcgonagall Professor Mcgonagall Quidditch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.”

Ifs Persons Next Aim Worried Pathetic Quidditch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.”

People Turns Known Months Died Desert Referee Sahara Quidditch Sahara Desert

Author:J. K. Rowling

“George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.”

Ifs Trying I Can Done Might Team Woods Bumps Quidditch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?”

Ifs Girl Taken Player International Looking Good Quidditch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world”

“Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.”

Taken Cutting Progress Hurling Quidditch

Author:Megan McCafferty

“Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.”

Play England Hagrid Quidditch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?”

Want Important School Sports Subjects Talent Hogwarts Quidditch

Author:J. K. Rowling