Hermione Granger Quotes

“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things! — Friendship! And Bravery!”

“It means “dirty blood.” Mudblood’s a foul name for someone who’s Muggle-born. Someone with non-magic parents. Someone like me. It’s not a term one usually hears in civilized conversation.”

“One person can’t feel all that at once, they’d explode.”

“It would be quite nice if you stopped jumping down out throats, Harry, because in case you haven’t noticed, Ron and I are on your side.”

“A warmth was spreading through him that had nothing to do with the sunlight; a tight obstruction in his chest seemed to be dissolving. He knew that Ron and Hermione were more shocked than they were letting on, but the mere fact that they were still there on either side of him, speaking bracing words of comfort, not shrinking from him as though he were contaminated or dangerous, was worth more than he could ever tell them.”

“That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.” Hermione went very red, put down her hand, and stared at the floor with her eyes full of tears. It was a mark of how much the class loathed Snape that they were all glaring at him, because every one of them had called Hermione a know-it-all at least once, and Ron, who told Hermione she was a know-it-all at least twice a week, said loudly, “You asked us a question and she knows the answer! Why ask if you don’t want to be told?”

“I mean, it’s sort of exciting isn’t it? Breaking the rules.”

“Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.”

“I’m hoping to do some good in the world!”

“I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have!”

“Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!”

“Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!”

“Actually I’m highly logical which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook.”

“You know, the Egyptians used to worship cats.”

“I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.”

“Very well spotted.”

“No, Harry. Even in the wizarding world, hearing voices isn’t a good sign.”

“Now if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled.”

“Are you sure that’s a real spell? Well, it’s not very good, is it?”

“Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!”

“What’s got your wand in a knot?”

“Stop, stop, stop! You’re going to take someone’s eye out. Besides, you’re saying it wrong. It’s leviosa, not leviosar!”

“Always the tone of surprise.”

“Honestly, don’t you two read?”

“Run like you have to get to the library.”

“Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry” said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron’s raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying “oh you know what I mean - Goyle’s Potion looked like bogies.”

“Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?” “Only once” said Hermione stung. “I got you loads more then you got me—” “I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—” “Well if you’re counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—”

“I’ll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I’ll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now—” “A telephone, Ron,” said Hermione. “Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year...”

“But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are somethings you can’t go through in life and become friends, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”

“No,” said Hermione shortly. “Have either of you seen my copy of Numerology and Gramatica?” “Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading,” said Ron, but very quietly.”

“Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!”

“Sometimes friendship means not having to say anything. Thank yous and apologies can sometimes get lost, but that doesn’t mean they’re unexpressed,”

“Ultimately, she had a bigger heart than she had a brain, and that’s saying something for Hermione.”

“You’re the cleverest witch I’ve ever met Hermione.”

“At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in, They got in on pure talent.”

“Oh I see, so basically, you’re going to take the best-looking girl who’ll have you, even if she’s completely horrible?”

“Oh for heaven’s sake! Listen to me, all of you! You’ve got just as much right as wizards to be unhappy! You’ve got the right to wages and holidays and proper clothes, you don’t have to do everything you’re told — look at Dobby!”

‘No, Harry, you listen,’ said Hermione. ‘We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago — years, really.‘”

“The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.”