With her real-life story of rags to riches, J.K. Rowling is truly an inspiring role model for girls and women aspiring for greatness. But it's also the characters she's written into being who have made an impact over the years. Rowling has created strong, smart, and complex ladies for the Harry Potter franchise who have some of the best one-liners, from funny to inspiring to straight-up badass. Let's look back at the life advice uttered from the witches of the Harry Potter books and films — the good, the bad, and the Bellatrix — including Molly Weasley's infamous foulmouthed line!
"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery . . . "
— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (book)
"What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!"
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (book)
"Not my daughter, you b*tch!"
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book)
"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book)
"If you attack my son again, I shall ensure that it is the last thing you ever do."
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (book)
"Everyone loves a rebel, Harry. Speaking of your parents, were they alive, how do you think they'd feel? Proud? Or concerned that your attitude shows, at best, a pathological need for attention? The worst psychotic death wish."
— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie)
"Mudblood, and proud of it!"
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book)
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book)
"Harry, if you die down there, you're welcome to share my toilet."
— Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (book)
"Well, what'd you expect, pumpkin juice?!"
— Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (movie)
"Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it."
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book)
"Well, thank you for that assessment, Mr. Weasley. Perhaps it would be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr. Potter and yourself into a pocket watch? That way, one of you might be on time."
— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (movie)
"You know, I really hate children."
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (movie)
"No, Harry, you listen. We're coming with you. That was decided months ago — years, really."
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book)
"See? Right here. You may be young in years, but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shriveled as an old maid's, your soul as dry as the pages of the books to which you so desperately cleave."
— Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)
"Let's get this straight once and for all. It's none of your business who I go out with or what I do with them."
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book
"Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?"
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book)
"They're very clean, these Muggles. It's unnatural."
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie
"Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself."
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book)
"Oh, there are several things I would like to say!"
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (movie)
"Friend? Don't make me laugh! You haven't spoken in weeks. I guess you want to make up with him now that's he's suddenly all interesting!"
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie)
"You've got the right to wages and holidays and proper clothes, you don't have to do everything you're told."
— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book)
"Don't be so mean."
— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie)
"And his name is Voldemort! Filius, you might as well use it; he's going to try to kill you either way."
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (movie)
"The truth is that you don't think a girl would have been clever enough!"
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (book)
"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book)
"I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?"
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book)
"Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book)
"[To Ron] Don't you look . . . dashing."
— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie)
"My Lord, I'd like to volunteer for this task. I want to kill the boy."
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 (movie)