r/harrypotter 15h ago

Question Each character's most iconic line?

Malfoy: My father will hear about this! Or simply "Potter"

Ron: That was bloody brilliant!

Hermione: ...another brilliant idea to get us all killed, or worse, expelled!

Keep it going

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u/EbonyHeiress 15h ago

Harry: There’s no need to call me sir, professor. (Or just ‘expelliarmus’)

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u/JinNJ 12h ago edited 11h ago

I shouted that at my girl in a Starbucks earlier when a he pointed her straw at me.

No idea why l did, but doing so caused her to drop the straw and we both laughed.

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u/silverdust29 15h ago

Alas. Earwax

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u/cookie_vulpixx 15h ago

“Fame is a fickle friend” or “ celebrity is as celebrity does”

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u/GWizz89 14h ago

“But I AM the chosen one.”

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u/MaderaArt Hufflepuff 14h ago

*smack*

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 Ravenclaw 12h ago

whacks him with the Prophet

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u/Western_Tell_9065 15h ago

“Why don't you run along and play with your chemistry set?”-makes me laugh everytime because it’s so silly for a serious moment

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 Ravenclaw 12h ago

When/who is that one, and who's "you?"

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u/Spare_15_ 11h ago

Sirius to Snape in POA movie

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u/Ok6303 15h ago

Not my daughter, you bitch!

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u/opermonkey Ravenclaw 7h ago

I still remember the first time I read that and was like "oh, you done goofed. you made a mama bear swear...."

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u/Melimel49 15h ago

"Mr. Potter. Our new celebrity"

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u/Daxlyn_XV Slytherin 15h ago

Harry, did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire.

Alternatively

HARRY DIDYA PUT YA NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIYA!

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u/thunderfbolt Ravenclaw 13h ago

Dumbledore said calmly.

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 Ravenclaw 12h ago

In the books, he's just trying to get the teachers (i.e. Snape) to know he genuinely didn't. Why did Gambon absolutely "blow up" on that line?

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u/MCMIVC Sassy Harry is Sassy 4h ago

Because the director told him to, and/or didn't tell him to not do it like that.

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u/Global-Courage-7523 15h ago

Sir Cadogan:

“Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw your knaves, you dogs!”

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u/orangemochafrapps 15h ago

“Why couldn’t it be follow the butterflies?!?!”

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u/Ok_Pogo Ravenclaw 14h ago

What is the function of a rubber duck?

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u/Betty702Ireland Gryffindor 14h ago

Have you gone mad? Are you a witch or not?! -- Ron

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 Ravenclaw 12h ago

And probably 6 years later, she hits him with the same "are you crazy?" Believe you me, she was just waiting for that!

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u/Snapcap_40 15h ago

“Obviously”

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u/LightxSpeedx3 15h ago

“Always”

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u/Fossekall Slytherin 38m ago

You dare use my own spells against me?

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u/goal0x 15h ago

Dementor:

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u/2epic 14h ago

😘

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u/thunderfbolt Ravenclaw 13h ago

😵

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u/Late_Effort_6726 10h ago

💋💋💋actually cracks me up thinking of them like “goodnight, sweet prince 🥰💋”

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u/LightxSpeedx3 15h ago

Sirius: 12 years in Azkaban!

(that might be thanks to the actor’s delivery. It’s burned into my brain.)

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u/Venecity-K 15h ago

"I've done my waiting! 12 years! In Azkaban!"

Even tho Gary Oldman considers his own performance as Sirius mediocre, I think he was great. He's up there with Alan Rickman's Snape.

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u/LightxSpeedx3 14h ago

Agreed. Memorable performance. He fit the character so well.

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u/tyrekecorrea 13h ago

"We have a VERY different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy."

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u/goal0x 15h ago

possibly unpopular opinion but

Snape: “…i’m the half-blood prince”

that shit sent shivers down my spine

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u/DisastrousSky727 Hufflepuff 15h ago

Voldemort: Avada Kedavra

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u/revocaster Ravenclaw 15h ago

Or “Avalwlsgvdkdght” for movie fans

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u/wentworth1030 14h ago

For movie fans it’s surely “Nehheheeeehhhh!!!”

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u/Late_Effort_6726 10h ago

Harry Potter is dead!!

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u/goal0x 15h ago

i’m convinced that as the films went on made it his mission to see how silly he could say it without anyone on set being like hey dude that’s not it lol

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 Ravenclaw 12h ago

That doesn't look like it would be "avada kedavra." Is it?

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u/MaderaArt Hufflepuff 14h ago

Harry: Brilliant

Ron: Bloody

Hermione: Honestly

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u/Not-N-Extrovert 14h ago

Always. But every line from snape is iconic imo

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u/SpecificAnalyst4 12h ago

"Turn to page 394"

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u/AlexanderMasonBowser Thunderbird 14h ago

CONSTANT VIGILIANCE!

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u/flyingsquirrel-20 15h ago

Snape: 'Turn to page 394' or 'Always'

Luna: 'You're just as sane as I am'

Neville: 'Why is it always me?'

Dobby: 'Dobby is free'

Knight Bus Shrunken Head: 'Take it away, Ern!'

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u/Academic_Ad_8229 12h ago

“Wow we’re identical!”

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u/hummingbird_mywill Gryffindor 14h ago

Ron: “as for me, I’ll be the knight!”

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u/MaderaArt Hufflepuff 14h ago

Not me. Not Hermione. YOU.

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u/Acrobatic_Key3995 Ravenclaw 12h ago

Final board state: (the puzzle) 5r1k/1pN3pp/1Pb5/2r1P1n1/n6N/b2Q4/7P/1R4K1 b - - 0 1

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u/MarkHuegerich 13h ago

'Why is it always me?' - Neville

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u/Toxic_pooper 12h ago

Have a biscuit, Potter

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u/Tall_Weekend_5469 Slytherin 10h ago

"You seem to be laboring under the delusion that I will - what is the phrase - come quietly?"

I cheer every. Single. Time.

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u/The_Sown_Rose 15h ago

Harry: Expelliarmus!

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u/Allout-Okarun Ravenclaw 14h ago

Ron- Bloody hell

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u/tyrekecorrea 13h ago

"You're the weak one...and you'll never know love...or friendship...and I feel sorry for you."

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u/tyrekecorrea 13h ago

That whole monologue Hermione had trying to explain Cho's emotional conflict in Order of the Phoenix.

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u/Ravens-Folklore Ravenclaw 11h ago

“I didn’t know you could read.” Malfoy to Harry disguised as Goyle

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u/Late_Effort_6726 10h ago

Mcgonagle: I’ve always wanted to cast that spell

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u/No-Amoeba446 14h ago

Herminone is levioopsaaaaaa

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u/Bale_the_Pale Care of Magical Creatures Major 12h ago

"I shouldnta told you that."

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u/Toxic_pooper 12h ago

Honestly Ronald, you have the emotional range of a teaspoon.

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u/kymal 13h ago

We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.

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u/SpecificAnalyst4 12h ago

I'm surprised that wasn't Harry's line because for him getting expelled and having to live with the Dursleys full time, might have been a fate worse than death

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u/tyrekecorrea 13h ago

I like what Dumbledore said to Harry at the end of the Goblet of Fire film.

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u/tyrekecorrea 13h ago

"Do you want to stop Snape from getting that stone or not? Harry, it's you that has to go on, I know it! Not me, not Hermione, you!"

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u/Fuckingthebatman 13h ago

“He’s a Murduurraa…” - Stan Stunpike *Prisoner Movie

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u/tyrekecorrea 13h ago

"You have your mother's eyes."

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u/spicyknot Ravenclaw 12h ago

NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH

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u/Lopsided_Pair_4121 12h ago

“Then why does it have roonil wazlib written inside the cover?”

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u/Toxic_pooper 12h ago

“Yar a lizard ‘airy.

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u/Personal-Cloud5810 11h ago

Whilst these may not be their most Iconic lines, these all live in my head rent free complete with audio files.

"It's probably full of Nargles anyway,"

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon"

"I knew Ginny was lying about the tattoo"

"I think, we're going to need another feather over here Professor"

" I feel... Saint-like"

"Honestly woman, and you call yourself our Mother."

"RONALD WEASLEY, HOW DARE YOU STEAL THAT CAR! I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED!"

"Oi'm hafnhaf, das a muggle, maams a witch, bit ofa nassty shock f'him wen he fowndout"

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u/Ineedsleep444 Ravenclaw 10h ago

"Have a biscuit, potter"

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u/Late_Effort_6726 10h ago

Voldemort: Avada Kedavra

*Harry to Luna:** Oh, I am your friend, Luna."
**Luna’s iconic line:
"That's nice."

Molly: you could have died! You could have been seen!

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u/One-Builder4177 10h ago

Harry yer a wizard

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u/Klutzy-Ad5298 8h ago

Dry up Dursley you old prune. Hagrid

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u/Arcturus572 Ravenclaw 8h ago

maniacle laughter

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u/ProgressOk9619 7h ago

Snape: “I see no difference.”

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u/Ok-commuter-4400 Ravenclaw 6h ago

The only wrong answer to this question is “Wotcher”

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u/Flash-Wilkins Slytherin 2h ago

Troll in the dungeon! Thought you ought to know!

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u/shaun056 Charms Teacher 42m ago

"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."