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Muggles Quotes

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J.K. Rowling
“Don't let the muggles get you down.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling
“The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up"
"There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!"
"And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J.K. Rowling
“Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.

"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods...”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling
“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...”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling
“Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?'
'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J.K. Rowling
“Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.

'I'm not putting them on,' said old Archie in indignation. 'I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling
“Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling
“The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!”
J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling
“My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling
“How come the Muggles don’t hear the bus?” said Harry.
“Them!” said Stan contemptuously. “Don’ listen properly, do they? Don’ look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don’.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling
“Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Michael  Grant
“[Caine]
"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."
[Sam]
"Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.”
Michael Grant, Gone

J.K. Rowling
“Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.”
J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J.K. Rowling
“Let muggles manage without us!”
J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

John Green
“If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.”
John Green

J.K. Rowling
“Another notable difference between these fables and their Muggle counterparts is that Beedle’s witches are much more active in seeking their fortunes than our fairy-tale heroines. Asha, Altheda, Amata and Babbitty Rabbitty are all witches who take their fate into their own hands, rather than taking a prolonged nap or waiting for someone to return a lost shoe.”
J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J.K. Rowling
“Son ingeniosas de verdad, las cosas que inventan los muggles para arreglárselas sin magia.”
J. K. Rowling

Yoon Ha Lee
“The man doesn't look like he belongs in a world of parking tickets and potted begonias and pencil sharpeners. But he can learn, the way you have.”
Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“Riddle raised a dark brow. “A muggle reference?”

“My father is obsessed.” [said Ron Weasley.]

“With muggles or their things?”

“Muggles. What they do and how they manage it and how they react to different obstacles. He thinks they’re fascinating.”

“Ah. Like a scientist might think an ant colony is very interesting to study.”

“Yeah.”

“Your father,” said Riddle, “is far creepier than I.”
PseudonymousEntity, Very Bad Boys

S.A. Hunt
“That’s what you get for dating muggles.”
“Muggles?”
“Civilians. John Q. Public.” He emphasized each term with a toss of his hand. “Maybe you needed to go out with somebody like me. We’re both—”
“Kinda fucked up?”
S.A. Hunt, Burn the Dark