Professor Snape Quotes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Professor Snape: Potter, what's your hurry? Congratulations. Your performance in the Black Lake was inspiring. Gilllyweed, am I correct?

Harry: Yes sir.

Professor Snape: Ingenious. A rather rare herb, Gillyweed. Not something found in your everyday garden. Nor is this.

[holds up a bottle]

Professor Snape: Know what it is?

Harry: [sarcastically] Bubble juice, sir?

Professor Snape: Veritaserum. Three drops of this and You-Know-Who himself would spill his darkest secrets. The use of it on a student is, regrettably, forbidden. However, should you eve steal from my personal stores again, my hand might just slip over your morning pumpkin juice.

Harry: I haven't stolen anything.

Professor Snape: Don't lie to me! Gillyweed may be innocuous, but Boomslang skin? Lacewing flies? You and your little friends are brewing Polyjuice Potion, and believe me; I'm going to find out why!

[shuts the door in Harry's face]

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.

Igor Karkaroff: [a highly agitated Karkaroff is following Snape around outside the Yule Ball as Snape patrols through the carriages parked on the grounds] It's happening again, like before, and soon neither you nor anyone else will be able to deny it.

Professor Snape: I've told you already Igor, I see no reason to discuss it.

[notices one carriage that is definitely occupied and blasts the door open with his wand, shooing out the students]

Professor Snape: Lumos! Ten points from Hufflepuff, Fawcett, and the same from Ravenclaw, Stebbins.

Igor Karkaroff: It's a sign, Severus, you know it is.

Professor Snape: Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.

Igor Karkaroff: Really? Then perhaps you wouldn't mind rolling up your sleeve them, huh?

[reaches for Snape's left arm, which Snape quickly pulls out of his way]

Igor Karkaroff: You don't fool me, Severus. You are scared. Admit it!

Professor Snape: I have nothing to be scared of, Igor. Can you say the same?

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.

Professor Snape: [taps the blank Marauder's Map with his wand] Reveal your secrets.

[writing appears on the map]

Professor Snape: Read it.

Harry: "Messrs. Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, offer their compliments to Professor Snape and... "

Professor Snape: Go on.

Harry: "... and request that he keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business."

Professor Snape: Well, well, Lupin. Out for a little walk... in the moonlight, are we?

Professor Snape: Why you insolent, little...

Professor Lupin: ...Professor.

Professor Snape: That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Tell me, are you incapable of restraining yourself, or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?

Ron: He's got a point, you know.

Harry: Excuse me, sir. Where's Professor Lupin?

Professor Snape: That's really none of your concern is it, Potter?

Professor Snape: Turn to page 394.

Professor Snape: Which one of you can tell me the difference between an animagus and a werewolf?

[Hermione raises her hand]

Professor Snape: [without turning around] No-one? How disappointing.

Professor Snape: Potter, what are you doing wandering the corridors at night?

Harry: Nothing... I was sleepwalking.

Professor Snape: How extraordinarily like your father you are Potter, he too was exceedingly arrogant, strutting about the castle.

Harry: My Dad didn't strut, and nor do I. Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.

Professor Snape: A remarkable feat, don't you think? To enter the castle on ones own, completely undetected?

Dumbledore: Quite.

Professor Snape: Any theories on how he might have managed it?

Dumbledore: Many. Each as unlikely as the next.

Professor Snape: You may recall, prior to the start of term, I expressed concern about the appointment of Professor...

Dumbledore: Not a single person inside this castle would help Sirius Black to enter it. No, I'm quite convinced the castle is safe, and I'm more than willing to send the students back to their houses.

Professor Snape: What about Potter? Should he be warned?

Dumbledore: Perhaps, but for now let him sleep.

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?

Professor Snape: [walks in potions classroom and shuts blinds with wand] Turn to page three-hundred and ninety-four.

Professor Snape: [sneaks up on Harry, who is in the dark with the Marauder's Map] Potter? What are you doing wandering the corridors at night?

Harry: I'm sleepwalking.

Professor Snape: Extraordinarily like your father, you are, Potter. He was exceedingly arrogant, strutting about the castle.

Harry: My dad didn't strut. Nor do I. Now if you don't mind, I would appreciate it if you lowered your wand.

[Snape lowers wand]

Gilderoy Lockhart: Let's have a volunteer pair. Potter, Weasley, how about you?

Professor Snape: Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox.

[after the attack on Mrs. Norris]

Professor Snape: If I might, Headmaster. Perhaps Potter and his friends were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, the circumstances are suspicious. I, for one, don't recall seeing Potter at dinner.

Gilderoy Lockhart: I'm afraid that's my doing, Severus. You see, Harry was helping me answer my fan mail.

Professor Snape: You were seen. By no less than seven Muggles! Do you have any idea how serious this is? You have risked the exposure of our world! Not to mention the damage you inflicted on a Whomping Willow that's been on these grounds since before you were born!

Ron: Honestly, Professor Snape, I think it did more damage to us.

Professor Snape: Silence! I assure you that were you in Slytherin and your fate rested with me, the both of you would be on the train home tonight!