Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix quotes

View Quote Dumbledore: Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric...Brian...Dumbledore.
Fudge: You, you got our message that the time and place of the hearing had been changed, did you?
Dumbledore: I must have missed it. But by a happy mistake I arrived at the Ministry three hours early.
[Pause]
Dumbledore: Charges?
Fudge:The charges against the accused are as follows; that he did knowingly and in full awareness of the illegality of his actions, produced a Patronus charm in the presence of a Muggle. Do you deny producing said Patronus?
Harry: No, I--
Fudge: [Interrupting Harry] And you were aware that you were forbidden to use magic outside school while under the age of seventeen?
Harry: Yes.
Conrelius Fudge: Witches and wizards of the Wizengamot--
Harry: I was only doing it because of the Dementors!
Amelia Bones: Dementors? In Little Whinging?
Fudge: That's quite clever. Muggles can't see Dementors, can they boy? Highly convenient.
Harry: I'm not lying, there were two of them and if I hadn't--
Fudge: [Interrupting Harry] Enough! I'm sorry to interrupt what I'm sure would have been a very well reversed story, but since you can produce no witnesses of the event--
Dumbledore: Pardon me Minister, but as it happens we can.

View Quote Amelia Bones: Please describe the attack. What did they look like?
Mrs Figg: Well one of them was very large, and the other rather skinny.
Cornelius Fudge: Not the boys, the Dementors.
Mrs Figg: Alright, right, well um, big. Cloaked. Then everything went cold, as though all the happiness had gone from the world.
Cornelius Fudge: Now look here, Dementors don't just wander into a muggle suburb and happen across a wizard, the odds are astronomical.
Dumbledore: I don't think anyone would believe the Dementors were there by coincidence, Minister.
Umbridge: Ahem. I'm sure I must have misunderstood you, Professor. Dementors are after all under the control of the Ministry of Magic. So silly of me but it sounded, for a moment, as though you were suggesting that the Ministry had ordered the attack on this boy.
Dumbldore: That would be disturbing indeed, madame Under-Secretary, which is why I'm sure the Ministry will be mounting a full-scale inquiry into why the two Dementors were so far away from Azkaban and why they mounted an attack without authorization. Of course, there is someone who might be behind the attack.

View Quote Dumbledore: Cornelius, I implore you to see reason. The evidence the Dark Lord's return is incontrovertible.
Fudge: He's not back!
Dumbledore: In the matter of Harry Potter, the law clearly states that magic may be used before Muggles in life-threatening situations.
Cornelius Fudge: Laws can be changed if necessary, Dumbledore!
Dumbledore: Clearly, it has become practice to hold a full criminal trial to deal with a simple matter of underage magic.
Amelia Bones: Those in favor of conviction?
[Fudge raises his hand followed by some other people including Umbridge]
Amelia Bones: Those in favor of clearing the accused of all charges?
[Most people raise their hand, including Amelia Bones and Miss Figg, who actually has no vote in this]
Cornelius Fudge: [Reluctantly] Cleared of all charges!

View Quote Hermione: Everyone this is Loony Love--Luna Lovegood.
[Beat]
Hermione:What an interesting necklace.
Luna: It's a charm actually. Keeps away the Nargles.
[Pause]
Luna: Hungry. I hope there's pudding.
[The carriage starts riding]
Ron: [Whispering] What's a Nargle?
Hermione Granger: No idea.

View Quote Umbridge: Thank you, Headmaster, for those kind words of welcome. And how lovely to see all your bright happy faces smiling up at me [No one smiles]. I'm sure we're all going to be very good friends.
Fred and George: [sarcastically] That's likely.
Umbridge: The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizard of vital importance. Although each Headmaster has brought something new to this historic school.
[Nods to Dumbledore]
Umbridge: Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged. Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be prohibited.
[Soft applause]
Dumbledore: Thank you Professor Umbridge, that really was most illuminating.
Ron Weasley: Illuminating? What a load of waffle!

View Quote Harry: Dean, Seamus, good holiday?
Dean: Alright, better than Seamus's anyway.
Seamus: My mum didn't want me to come back this year.
Harry: Why not?
Seamus: Let me see, because of you! The Daily Prophet's been saying a lot of things about you Harry. And about Dumbledore as well.
Harry: And your mum believes them?
Seamus: Well, nobody was there the night Cedric died.
Harry: Oh well I guess you should read the Prophet then like your stupid mother, it'll tell you everything you need to know!
Seamus: Don't you dare talk about my mother like that!
Harry: I'll go up against anyone that calls me a liar!
Ron: [Entering the common room] What's going on?
Seamus: He's mad, is what's going on! Do you believe the rubbish he's coming out with about You-Know-Who?
Ron: Yeah, I do. Has anyone else got a problem with Harry?

View Quote Ron: You alright, mate?
Harry: I'm fine
Ron: Seamus was bang out of order. But he'll come through. You'll see--
Harry: I said I'm fine Ron!
Ron: Right. I'll just leave you to your thoughts then. [Ron leaves the dormitory]

View Quote Umbridge: Your previous instruction for this subject has been disturbingly uneven. But you will be pleased to know, from now on you will be following a carefully structured, Ministry-approved course of defensive magic. Yes?
Hermione: There's nothing in here about using defensive spells?
Umbridge: Using spells? [laughs] Why I can't imagine why you would need to use spells in my classroom.
Ron: We're not gonna use magic?
Umbridge: You'll be learning about defensive spells, in a secure risk-free way.
Harry Well, what use is that? If we're gonna be attacked, it won't be risk-free.
Umbridge: Students will raise their hands when they speak in my class. It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all is what school is all about!
Harry: And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what's out there?
Umbridge: There is nothing out there dear. Who would you imagine would want to attack children like yourself?
Harry: Oh, I don't know, maybe Lord Voldemort?

View Quote Umbridge: No let me make this quite plain. You have been told that a certain Dark Wizard is at large once again. This...is...a ...lie!
Harry: It's not a lie, I saw him! I fought him!
Umbridge: Detention, Mr. Potter!
Harry: So according to you Cedric Diggory dropped dead of his own accord?
Umbridge: Cedric Diggory's death was a tragic accident.
Harry: It was murder. Voldemort killed him. You must know this--
Umbridge: Enough! Enough.

View Quote Luna: Hello Harry Potter.
Harry: [Sees Luna isn't wearing shoes] Your feet, aren't they cold?
Luna: Bit. Unfortunately all my shoes have mysteriously disappeared. I suspect Nargles are behind it.
Harry: [Referring to the Thestrals] What are they?
Luna They're called Thestrals. They're quite gentle really but people avoid them because, they're a bit--
Harry: Different. But why can't the others see them?
Luna: They can only be seen by people who've seen death.
Harry: So you've known someone who's died then?
Luna: My mum. She was quite an extraordinary witch and she did like to experiment and one day one of her spells went badly wrong. I was nine.
Harry: I'm sorry.
Luna: Yes, it was rather horrible. I do feel very sad about it sometimes. But I still have a dad. We both believe you by the way. [When Harry doesn't respond] That He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is back, and you fought him and the Ministry and the Prophet are conspiring against you and Dumbledore.
Harry: Thanks. It seems you're about the only ones that do.
Luna: Don't think that's true.

View Quote Umbridge: Pardon me, professor, but what exactly are you insinuating?
Professor McGonnagall: I am merely requesting that when it comes to my students, you conform to the prescribed disciplinary practices.
Umbridge: So silly of me but it sounds as if you're questioning my authority in my own classroom... [Takes a step up] Minerva.
Professor McGonnagall: Not at all, [Does the same] Dolores.. Merely your medieval methods.
Umbridge: I am sorry dear, but to question my practices is to question the Ministry and, by extension, the Minister himself. I am a tolerant woman but the one thing I will not stand for is disloyalty.
Professor McGonnagall: [Takes a step down] Disloyalty?
Umbridge: Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared. Cornelius will want to take immediate action.

View Quote Umbridge: You applied first for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post, is that correct?
Snape: ...Yes.
Umbridge: But you were unsuccessful?
Snape: ...Obviously.
[Ron snickers just as Umbridge leaves. Snape whacks him over the head with a book]

View Quote Harry: First we need to find a place to practice where Umbridge won't find out.
Ginny: The Shrieking Shack?
Harry:That's too small.
Hermione: Forbidden Forest?
Ron: Oh bloody no.
Ginny: Harry? What happens if Umbridge does find out?
Hermione: Who cares? I mean, sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?
Ron: Who are you, and what have you done with Hermione Granger?

View Quote Hermione: You've done it Neville. You found the Room of Requirement.
Ron: The what?
Hermione: It's also known as the Come-And-Go Room. The Room of Requirement only appears when a person has real need of it, and is always equipped for the seeker's needs.
Ron: So say you really needed the toilet?
Hermione: Charming, Ronald, but yes, that is the general idea.
Harry: It's brilliant! It's like Hogwarts wants us to fight back.

View Quote Umbridge: You will please copy the approved text four times to insure maximum pretention. There will be no need to talk.
Hermione: [sotto voice] No need to think is more like it.
[neville flicks out wand[Expelliarmus] umbridge:Wands away.