Professor Lupin Quotes in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Professor Snape: Expelliarmus! Ah, vengeance is sweet. How I hoped I'd be the one to catch you.

[to Lupin]

Professor Snape: I told Dumbledore you were helping an old friend enter the castle and now here's the proof.

Sirius Black: Brilliant, Snape - once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion. Now if you'll excuse us, Remus and I have some unfinished business to attend to.

Professor Snape: [raises his wand at Black] Give me a reason. I beg you.

Professor Lupin: Severus, don't be a fool...

Sirius Black: He can't help it. It's habit by now.

Professor Lupin: Sirius, be quiet!

Sirius Black: Be quiet yourself, Remus!

Professor Snape: Listen to you two, quarrelling like an old married couple.

Sirius Black: Why don't you run along and play with your chemistry set?

Professor Snape: [puts his wand to Black's throat] I could do it, you know... But why deny the Dementors? They're so longing to see you.

[Sirius trembles]

Professor Snape: Do I detect a flicker of fear? Ah, yes. The Dementor's Kiss. One can only imagine what that must be like to endure. It's said to be nearly unbearable to witness, but I'll do my best.

Sirius Black: Enough talk,Remus! C'mon, let's kill him!

Professor Lupin: Wait!

Sirius Black: I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In Azkaban!

Professor Lupin: Very well, kill him. But wait one more minute. Harry has the right to know why.

Harry: I know why! You betrayed my parents! You're the reason they're dead!

Professor Lupin: No, Harry, it wasn't him! Somebody did betray your parents, but it was somebody who, until quite recently, I believed to be dead.

Harry: Who was it then?

Sirius Black: Peter Pettigrew! And he's in this room, right now! Come out, come out, Peter! Come out and play!

Professor Lupin: Now repeat after me - without wands please - repeat after me, Riddikulus.

Class: Riddikulus!

Professor Lupin: Very good. A little louder please, and very clearly. Rid-di-kulus.

Class: Riddikulus!

Malfoy: [under his breath] This class is ridiculous.

Harry: Professor, can I ask you something?

Professor Lupin: You want to know why I stopped you facing that boggart, yes? I would have thought that would be obvious - I assumed it would take the shape of Lord Voldemort.

Harry: I did think of Voldemort - at first. But then I remembered that night on the train... and the dementor...

Professor Lupin: I'm very impressed. That suggests that what you fear most of all... is fear itself. This is very wise.

Professor Lupin: The very first time I saw you Harry, I recognized you immediately. Not by your scar, by your eyes. They're your mother; Lily's. Yes, I knew her. You mother was there for me at a time when no one else was. Not only was she a singularly gifted witch, she was also an uncommonly kind woman. She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves. Your father, James, however, had a certain, shall we say, talent for trouble. A talent, rumor has it, he passed onto you. You're more like them then you know, Harry. In time you'll come to see just how much.

Professor Lupin: What frightens you most in the world?

Neville Longbottom: [mumbling] Pfsr Snpe.

Professor Lupin: I'm sorry?

Neville Longbottom: Professor Snape.

[laughter]

Professor Lupin: Professor Sna- yes, he frightens all.

Professor Snape: Why you insolent, little...

Professor Lupin: ...Professor.

[Harry has just successfully conjured a Patronus]

Professor Lupin: You know something, Harry? I think you would have given your father a run for his money, and THAT is saying something.

[beat]

Harry: I was thinking of him... and Mum. Seeing their faces. They were talking to me, just talking. That's the memory I chose. I don't even know if it's real. But it's the best I have.

Harry: Professor, why do the dementors affect me so? More than anyone else, I mean?

Professor Lupin: Listen, dementors are among the foulest creatures to walk this earth. They feed on every good feeling, every happy memory until a person is left with nothing but his worst experiences. The dementors affect you more than others because there are true horrors in your past, horrors your classmates can scarcely imagine. You are not weak, Harry. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

Harry: I'm scared, Professor.

Professor Lupin: Well, I'd consider you a fool if you weren't.

Professor Lupin: [Harry's turned up to visit him after the battle in the woods] I saw you coming.

[points to Marauder's Map]

Professor Lupin: I've looked worse, believe me.

Professor Lupin: [commenting on Sirius' ragged looks] Finally, the flesh reflects the madness within.

Sirius Black: Well, you'd know all about the madness within, wouldn't you Remus?

Harry: [about the Marauder's Map] Professor, just so you know I don't think that map always works. Earlier it showed someone in the castle... someone I know to be dead.

Professor Lupin: Oh really, and who might that be?

Harry: Peter Pettigrew.

Professor Lupin: [looking stunned] That's not possible.

Professor Lupin: Why do you look so miserable, Harry?

Harry: None of it made any difference. Pettigrew escaped.

Professor Lupin: Didn't make any difference? Harry, it made all the difference in the world! You helped discover the truth. You saved an innocent man from a terrible fate. It made a great deal of difference.

Harry: Tell me about Peter Pettigrew!

Professor Lupin: He was at school witth us, we thought he was our friend.

Harry: No, Pettigrew's dead.

[to Sirius]

Harry: You killed him.

Professor Lupin: No he didn't! I thought so too, until you mentioned seeing Pettigrew on the map.

Harry: The map was lying, then.

Sirius Black: The map never lies! Pettigrew's alive.

Professor Lupin: Dementors force us to relive our very worst memories. Our pain becomes their power.

Harry: It's not... happy. Well, it is, it's the happiest I've ever felt. But it's complicated.

Professor Lupin: Is it strong?

[repeated line]

Professor Lupin: Eat this. It'll help.

Professor Lupin: Come in. Now, I haven't the faintest idea Harry how this map came to be in your possession, quite frankly I am astounded that you didn't hand it in. Did it never occur to you that this in the hands of Sirius Black is a map to you?

Harry: No, sir.

Professor Lupin: No. You know, your father never set much store by the rules either. But he and your mother gave their lives to save yours. And gambling their sacrifice by wandering around the castle, unprotected, with a killer on the loose seems to me to be a pretty poor way to repay them. Now, I will not cover for you again, Harry, do you hear me? I want you to return to your dormitory and stay there. And don't take any detours. If you do, I shall know.

[taps the map]

Professor Lupin: I shall know.

Professor Lupin: [as Snape points his wand at Sirius's throat] Severus, don't be a fool...

Sirius Black: He can't help it, it's habit by now.

Professor Lupin: Sirius, be quiet.

Sirius Black: Be quiet yourself, Remus!

Professor Snape: Listen to you two, quarreling like an old married couple...

Sirius Black: [in a mocking voice] Why don't yo run along and play with your chemistry set?

[Snape pushes wand harder on Sirius's throat]

Professor Snape: I could do it, you know. But why deny the Dementors? They're so longing to see you... do I detect a flicker of fear? Ah, yes, the Dementor's Kiss. One can only imagine what that must be like to endure. It's said to be nearly unbearable to witness, but I'll do my best.

[Harry unnoticeably pulls Hermione's wand out of her pocket]

Sirius Black: Severus, please!

Professor Snape: After you.

[gestures Sirius toward door]

Harry: [to Snape] Expelliarmus!

[Snape flies backwards onto a bed, unconscious]

Ron: Harry! What did you just do?

Hermione: You attacked a teacher!

Harry: [to Lupin] Tell me about Peter Pettigrew!

Professor Lupin: He was at school with us! We thought he was our friend!

Harry: No, Pettigrew's dead!

[whirls around at Sirius]

Harry: You killed him!

Professor Lupin: [jumps in front of Sirius] No he didn't! I thought so, too until you mentioned seeing Pettigrew on the map!

Harry: The map was lying, then!

Sirius Black: That map never lies! Pettigrew's alive! And he's right there!

[points at Ron]

Ron: Me? He's mental!

Sirius Black: Not you! Your rat!

Ron: Scabbers has been in my family for...

Sirius Black: Twelve years! Curiously a long life for a rat! He's missing a toe, isn't he?

Ron: So what?

Harry: [about Ron's rat missing a toe and being Peter Pettigrew] All they could find left of Pettigrew was his...

Sirius Black: Finger! But then the coward cut it off so they would think he was dead! And then he transformed into a rat!

Harry: Show me.

[Sirius tries to take the rat from Ron, but Ron holds onto it]

Harry: Give into it, Ron.

Ron: What are you trying to do to him?

[Sirius finally gets a hold of the rat]

Ron: Scabbers! Leave him alone!

[tries to run toward Sirius, but Hermione holds him back]

Ron: Get off him! What are you doing?

[Sirius drops the rat, which runs while Sirius finally transforms it into Peter Petitgrew]

Peter Pettigrew: [realizes he's not a rat anymore] Remus, S-Sirius? My old friends!

[runs toward the door, but Lupin and Sirius block him]

Peter Pettigrew: Harry, l-look at you!

[walks toward Harry]

Peter Pettigrew: You look so much like your father! Like James, we were best friends!

Sirius Black: How dare you speak of him!

[Pettigrew scowls and runs away from Sirius]

Professor Lupin: You sold Lily and James to Voldemort, didn't you?

Peter Pettigrew: [to Sirius] What would you have done? What would you have done?

Sirius Black: I would have died!

[Pettigrew crawls under piano]

Sirius Black: I would have died rather than betray my friends!

Peter Pettigrew: [runs over to Harry, whispering to him] Harry, James wouldn't have wanted me killed! Your dad... your dad would have spared me! He would shown me mercy...!

[Lupin and Sirius yank him off Harry]

Sirius Black: You should have realized, Peter, that if Voldemort wouldn't kill you we would!

[he and Lupin pull out their wands and point them and Pettigrew]

Sirius Black: Together!

Harry: No!

Professor Lupin: Harry, could this man...

Harry: I know what he is, but we'll take him to the castle.

Peter Pettigrew: Bless you boy, bless you!

[kneels to Harry]

Harry: Get off me! I said we'll take you to the castle. After that, the dementors can have you.

Ron: [from trailer] There's something moving out there!

Professor Lupin: It was a dementor. One of the guards from Azkaban is searching the trade for Sirius Black.