Quotes from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter.
Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart.
Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then?
Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione.
Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead.
Ron: Dungbombs rule.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“People change after a while, and they're no longer who you once knew”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification.

xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“I would like to take this opportunity to reassure Muggle purchasers that the amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and cannot hurt you.To wizards, I say merely: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“The sight of a tree at night full of glowing Clabbert lifestyles, while decorative, attracted too many Muggles wishing to ask why their neighbours still had their Christmas lights up in June.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Jacob Kowalski: I'm sure people like you,too.
Newt Scamander: No, not really. I'm annoying.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“HORKLUMP M.O.M. Classification: X The Horklump comes from Scandinavia but is now widespread throughout northern Europe. It resembles a fleshy, pinkish mushroom covered in sparse, wiry black bristles. A prodigious breeder, the Horklump will cover an average garden in a matter of days. It spreads sinewy tentacles rather than roots into the ground to search for its preferred food of earthworms. The Horklump is a favourite delicacy of gnomes but otherwise has no discernible use. H”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Will we die, just a little?”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artifacts.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Sollte ein Muggel so unklug sein, einem anderen anzuvertrauen, er habe einen Hippogreif gesehen, der mit ausladenden Flügelschlägen nach Norden zog, wird er zumeist für betrunken oder für "bekloppt" erklärt. So unfair dies dem fraglichen Muggel gegenüber erscheinen mag, ist es doch besser, als auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt oder im Dorfweiher ertränkt zu werden.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Das Amt für Desinformation pflegt nur bei schwersten Zusammenstößen von Magierwelt und Muggeln tätig zu werden. Einige magische Katastrophen oder Unfälle müssen den Muggeln einfach ins Auge springen, und dann kommen sie nicht ohne den Beistand einer höheren Autorität aus, die den Vorfall wegerklärt. Das Amt für Desinformation wendet sich in solchen Fällen direkt an die Regierung des jeweiligen Muggelstaates, um eine plausible nichtmagische Erklärung für das Ereignis abzugeben.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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“Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.”
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― Stephen Hawking, quote from A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

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