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Quotations
This is a collection of Harry and Ron quotations from the books. I'm trying to compile quotations that tell us something about Harry and Ron's friendship, or that come from key Harry and Ron moments, or that are just really amusing. I'm reeeeeeeeally taking my time compiling the quotations, I'm afraid, but I do hope to be done eventually. :D
WARNING! This page will probably contain big spoilers! The quotations are sorted by which book they come from, so if I were you I wouldn't read the quotations from any book I hadn't read.
All of these quotations are, of course, written by the brilliant J.K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
'Are you really Harry Potter?' Ron blurted out.
Harry nodded.
'Oh - well, I thought it might be one of Fred and George's jokes,' said Ron.
'So that's where You-Know-Who -?'
'Yes,' said Harry, 'but I can't remember it.'
'Nothing?' said Ron eagerly
'Well - I remember a lot of green light, but nothing else.'
'Wow,' said Ron.
'I think I know who that one's from,' said Ron, going a bit pink and pointing to a very lumpy parcel. 'My mum. I told her you didn't expect any presents and - oh no,' he groaned, 'she's made you a Weasley jumper.'
Harry had torn open the parcel to find a think, hand-knitted sweater in emerald green and a large box of home-made fudge.
'Every year she makes us a jumper,' said Ron, unwrapping his own, 'and mine's always maroon.'
Ron was fascinated by the fifty pence.
'Weird!' he said. 'This is money?'
'You can keep it,' said Harry, laughing at how pleased Ron was.
The door of the compartment slid open and the youngest red-headed boy came in.
'Anyone sitting there?' he asked, pointing at the seat opposite Harry. 'Everywhere else is full.'
Harry shook his head and the boy sat down. He glanced at Harry and then looked quickly out of the window, pretending he hadn't looked. Harry saw he still had a black mark on his nose.
'Are all your family wizards?' asked Harry, who found Ron just as interesting as Ron found him.
'Er - yes, I think so,' said Ron. 'I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.'
Harry didn't think there was anything wrong with not being able to afford an owl. After all, he'd never had any money in his life until a month ago, and he told Ron so, all about having to wear Dudley's old clothes and never getting proper birthday presents. This seemed to cheer Ron up.
' ... and until Hagrid told me, I didn't know anything about being a wizard or about my parents or Voldemort-'
Ron gasped.
'What?' said Harry.
'You said You-Know-Who's name!' said Ron, sounding both shocked and impressed. 'I'd have thought you, of all people -'
'I'm not trying to be brave or anything, saying the name,' said Harry. 'I just never knew you shouldn't. See what I mean? I've got loads to learn ... I bet,' he added, voicing for the first time something that had been worrying him a lot lately, 'I bet I'm the worst in the class.'
'You won't be. There's loads of people who come from Muggle families and they learn quick enough.'
'Go on, have a pasty,' said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties and cakes (the sandwiches lay forgotten).
Harry turned the card back over and saw, to his astonishment, that Dumbledore's face had disappeared.
'He's gone!'
'Well, you can't expect him to hang around all day,' said Ron. 'He'll be back. No, I've got Morgana again and I've got about six of her ... do you want it? You can start collecting.'
Ron's eyes strayed to the pile of chocolate frogs waiting to be unwrapped.
'Help yourself,' said Harry. 'But in, you know, the Muggle world, people just stay put in photos.'
'Do they? What, they don't move at all?' Ron sounded amazed. 'Weird!'
'You want to be careful with those,' Ron warned Harry. 'When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a bogey-flavoured one once.'
Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully and bit into a corner.
'Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.'
They had a good time eating the Every Flavour Beans. Harry got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny grey one Ron wouldn't touch, which turned out to be pepper.
'Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, I mean, it's the very best school of witchcraft there is, I've heard - I've learnt all our set books off by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough - I'm Hermione Granger, by the way, who are you?'
She said all this very fast.
Harry looked at Ron and was relieved to see by his stunned face that he hadn't learnt all the set books off by heart either.
'What's your Quidditch team?' Ron asked.
'Er - I don't know any,' Harry confessed.
'What!' Ron looked dumbfounded. 'Oh, you wait, it's the best game in the world-' And he was off, explaining all about the four balls and the positions of the seven players, describing famous games he'd been to with his brothers and the broomstick he'd like to get if he had the money.
And now there were only three people left to be sorted. 'Turpin, Lisa' became a Ravenclaw and then it was Ron's turn. He was pale green by now. Harry crossed his fingers under the table and a second later the hat had shouted 'GRYFFINDOR!'
Harry clapped loudly with the rest as Ron collapsed into the chair next to him.
Madam Hooch then showed them how to mount their brooms without sliding off the end, and walked up and down the rows correcting their grips. Harry and Ron were delighted when she told Malfoy he'd been doing it wrong for years.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
'It's a bit small,' said Ron quickly. 'Not like that room you had with the Muggles. And I'm right underneath the ghoul in the attic, he's always banging on the pipes and groaning ...'
But Harry, grinning widely, said, 'This is the best house I've ever been in.'
Ron's ears went pink.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
'How about these?' said Ron, shoving a jar of Cockroach Cluster under Hermione's nose.
'Definitely not,' said Harry.
Ron nearly dropped the jar.
'Harry!' squealed Hermione. 'What are you doing here? How -- how did you --?'
'Wow!' said Ron, looking very impressed. 'You've learned to Apparate!'
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