Professor McGonagall Quotes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Ron: [Harry and Ron arrive late to Transfiguration, relieved that Professor McGonagall isn't there yet] Whew, made it. Can you imagine the look on old McGonagall's face if we were late?

[the cat sitting at the head of the class suddenly transforms into her]

Ron: That was bloody brilliant!

Professor McGonagall: 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: We got lost.

Professor McGonagall: Then perhaps a map? I trust you don't need one to find your seats.

Professor McGonagall: [to Harry and Ron after beating the Mountain Troll] Five points... will be awarded to each of you.

[Ron and Harry smile at each other]

Professor McGonagall: For sheer dumb luck.

Professor McGonagall: Albus, do you really think it safe, leaving him with these people? I've watched them all day. They're the worst sort of Muggles imaginable. They really are...

Dumbledore: The only family he has.

Professor McGonagall: This boy will be famous. There won't be a child in our world who doesn't know his name.

Dumbledore: Exactly. He's far better off growing up away from all of that. Until he is ready.

Professor McGonagall: Nothing, I repeat, nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Therefore, as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken.

Harry: 50?

[Ron and Hermione also looking shocked, Draco smirking]

Professor McGonagall: Each.

[Harry's mouth drops open]

Professor McGonagall: And to ensure it doesn't happen again, all four of you will receive detention.

Draco Malfoy: [smirk suddenly fades and steps up] Excuse me, professor, perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said the four of us.

Professor McGonagall: No, you heard me correctly, Mr. Malfoy. You see, honorable as your intentions were, you too were out of bed after hours. You will join your classmates in detention.

Dumbledore: [walks onto Privet Drive and takes out lights with tool] I should have known that you would be here, Professor McGonagall.

[to Professor McGonagall, who is a cat]

Professor McGonagall: [transforms into a human] Good evening, Professor Dumbledore.

[walks with Dumbledore]

Professor McGonagall: Are the rumors true, Albus?

Dumbledore: I'm afraid so, Professor. The good... and the bad.

Professor McGonagall: And the boy?

Dumbledore: Hagrid is bringing him.

Professor McGonagall: Do you think it wise to trust Hagrid with something this important?

Dumbledore: Ah, Professor, I would trust Hagrid with my life.

[Hagrid appears on a flying motorcycle with baby Harry Potter]

Hagrid: Professor Dumbledore, sir, Professor McGonagall.

Dumbledore: No problems, I trust, Hagrid?

Hagrid: No, sir. Little tike fell asleep just as we were flyin' over Bristol. Try not to wake him.

[gives Harry to Dumbledore and McGonagall]

Hagrid: There yeh go.

Professor McGonagall: Albus, do you really think it's safe to leave him with these people? I've watched them all day, they're the worst sort of Muggles imaginable! They really are.

Dumbledore: They're the only family he has.

Professor McGonagall: This boy will be famous. There won't be a child in the world who won't know his name!

Dumbledore: Exactly. He's far better off growing up away from that, until he's ready.

[puts Harry on the Dursley's front step and looks at Hagrid, who is crying]

Dumbledore: There there, Hagrid, it's not really goodbye after all.

[Hagrid nods, while Dumbledore leaves a letter for the Dursleys on Harry]

Dumbledore: Good luck, Harry Potter.

[the camera shoots to Harry's scar]

[first lines]

Professor McGonagall: [as a cat] Mraow!

Dumbledore: I should have known that you would be here, Professor McGonagall.

[Professor McGonagall transfigures into her human self]

Professor McGonagall: Are the rumors true, Albus?

Dumbledore: I'm afraid so, Professor. The good... and the bad.

Professor McGonagall: Are you sure you could trust Hagrid with such an important thing?

Dumbledore: I would trust Hagrid with my own life.

[Hagrid appears on a motorcycle with baby Harry]

Draco Malfoy: I'm sorry, Professor, but I think I heard you wrong. Did you say four, because there's only three.

Professor McGonagall: Well, you were out of bed, too, weren't you?

[Professor McGonagall demonstrates a waltz with Ron as her partner]

Professor McGonagall: One-two-three, one-two-three...

Harry: [aside] You're never gonna let him forget this, are you?

Fred, George: [shaking their heads] Never.

Professor McGonagall: The house of Godric Gryffindor has commanded the respect of the wizarding world for nearly ten centuries. I will not have you, in one night, besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons!

Fred: [whispering to George] Try saying that five times fast.

George: [whispering] Babbling, bumbling band of baboons.

Fred: [whispering] Babbling, bumbling band of baboons.

Professor McGonagall: This can't go on Albus. First the dark mark, now this?

Dumbledore: What do you suggest Minerva?

Professor McGonagall: Put an end to it! Don't let Potter compete!

Dumbledore: You heard Barty. The rules are clear.

Professor McGonagall: Well the devil with Barty and his rules! And since when did you accommodate the Ministry?

Professor Snape: Headmaster I too find it difficult to believe this mere coincidence, however, if we are to truly discover the meaning of these events, perhaps we should, for the time being, let them unfold.

Professor McGonagall: Do nothing? Offer him up as bait? Potter is a boy! Not a piece of meat!

Dumbledore: I agree with Severus. Alastor, keep an eye on Harry will you?

Professor Moody: I can do that.

Dumbledore: Don't let him know though, he must be anxious enough as it is, knowing what lies ahead. Then again, we all are.

Professor McGonagall: Now, Mr. Weasley, place your right hand on my waist.

Ron: Where?

Professor McGonagall: Inside every girl is a swan, waiting to burst out in flight.

Ron: [whispering] Something is about to burst out of Eloise Midgen, but I don't think it's a swan.

Malfoy: [after Moody humilates him by turning him into a ferret and bouncing him up and down] My father will hear about this!

Professor Moody: Is that a threat?

[He steps forward, and Malfoy runs around the tree, Moody following]

Professor Moody: Is that a threat? Is that a threat?

[Malfoy flees]

Professor McGonagall: Professor Moody! Professor!

Professor Moody: [yelling after him ] I could tell you stories about your father that would curl even your greasy hair, boy!

Professor McGonagall: Alastor!

Professor Moody: It doesn't end here!

Professor McGonagall: Alastor, we never use transfiguration as a punishment. Surely Dumbledore told you that?

Professor Moody: He might have mentioned it.

Professor McGonagall: Well then. Do well to remember it!

[She stalks off, and Moody makes a face at her retreating back]

Professor McGonagall: Professor Moody! What are you doing?

Professor Moody: Teaching.

Professor McGonagall: Teach - is that a student?

Professor Moody: Technically it's a ferret.

Professor McGonagall: Mr. Potter, are you and Miss Patil ready?

Harry: Ready, Professor?

Professor McGonagall: To dance! It's tradition that the three champions-well in this case four- are the first to dance. Surely I told you?

Harry: No.

Professor McGonagall: Oh, well, now you know.

Professor McGonagall: [from trailer] Mr. Weasley, place your right hand on my waist.

Ron: What?