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Last words in Harry Potter media

The numerous deaths across all different media in the Harry Potter universe (originally created by J.K. Rowling) have yielded many memorable last words.

Novels

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  • Master-I cannot hold him-my hands! My hands!
    • Who: Quirinus Quirrell
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    • Note: Character was being burned by Harry's mystic protection from Lord Voldemort, who had fused into Quirrell's body. Voldemort fled, leaving Quirrell to succumb to his wounds.
  • Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! I'll hold him off!
  • Not Harry! Please...have mercy...have mercy...Not Harry! Not Harry! Please-I'll do anything!
    • Who: Lily Potter
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    • Notes: Harry's mother was killed by Voldemort while shouting pleas to protect him shortly after her husband's death. This would later translate into a powerful magical protection.
  • Is that right? Lord, is it? Well, I don't think much of your manners, My Lord. Turn 'round and face me like a man, why don't you?
    • Who: Frank Bryce
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Note: Character had been eavesdropping on Lord Voldemort's plans, and said this after Voldemort introduced himself. At Frank's challenge, Voldemort promptly turned around and killed him.
  • I...escaped...must warn...must tell...see Dumbledore...my fault...all my fault...Bertha...dead...all my fault...my son...my fault...tell Dumbledore...Harry Potter...the Dark Lord...stronger...Harry Potter...
  • Turned it into a Portkey. My master's plan worked. He is returned to power and I will be honoured by him beyond the dreams of wizards and witches.
    • Who: Barty Crouch, Jr.
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Note: Last words spoken before Crouch's soul is devoured by a Dementor, rendering him permanently catatonic.
  • Come on, you can do better than that!
    • Who: Sirius Black
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    • Note: Was said to Bellatrix Lestrange just after she fired a curse at him and missed. Bellatrix fired again, knocking him dead through a 'veil' in the Ministry of Magic.
  • Severus...please...please...
    • Who: Charity Burbage
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Voldemort has kidnapped the Muggle-friendly professor to make an example of her, and Voldemort later killed her. She is then presumably fed to Nagini, Voldemort's snake. Her last words are notably similar to Dumbledore's.
  • Good luck, everyone! See you all in about an hour at the Burrow. On the count of three. One...two...THREE!
    • Who: Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Says this before flying up into the sky with the rest of the Order of the Phoenix, who help escort Harry from Privet Drive. Gets killed by Voldemort when Mundungus Fletcher (disguised as Harry) panics and Disapparates.
  • I...regret your attitude. You seem to think that the Ministry does not desire what you-what Dumbledore-desired. We ought to be working together.
    • Who: Rufus Scrimgeour
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Says this to Harry after having an intense argument when Harry criticized Scrimgeour's ways of scrutinizing Dumbledore, when Harry, Ron and Hermione were given three objects left in Dumbledore's will. When Mr. and Mrs. Weasley came to break up the fight, Scrimgeour apologizes for the argument and leaves the Burrow. He's later mentioned at Bill and Fleur's wedding that he had been killed (presumably by Voldemort), leading the Ministry of Magic to fall in Voldemort's hands.
  • He move! I know not, I know not!
    • Who: Unnamed German speaking woman at Gregorovitch's former residence.
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Harry has a vision of Voldemort entering this woman's home. Voldemort demands to know where wandmaker, Gregorovitch, is, but the woman says in German that she does not know, and says he does not live there. Voldemort kills her with a curse.
  • I do not know, I never knew, a young man-no-please-PLEASE!
    • Who: Gregorovitch
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Voldemort is searching for the Elder Wand, and believes Gregorovitch knows who stole it and where it is (although he does not know the thief's identity). After interrogating him and getting no response, he finally kills him.
  • Kill me, then, Voldemort! You will not win, you cannot win! The wand will never, ever be yours!
    • Who: Gellert Grindelwald
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Voldemort has tracked down Grindelwald at Nurmengard, the prison he himself had built for his enemies, believing he can lead him to the Elder Wand. At that moment, Bellatrix Lestrange summons him to the Malfoy Manor because they have Harry, and he kills Grindelwald in exasperation.
  • Stand back. Stand away from the door. I am coming in.
    • Who: Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Pettigrew goes down to the dungeon where Harry, Ron, Luna and others are kept to check on them. They overpower him, and Harry reminds him of his debt to him for saving his life in Prisoner of Azkaban. Wormtail gives in, and the enchanted hand Voldemort made for him immediately strangles him to death for his betrayal.
  • Thieves! Thieves! Help! Thieves!
    • Who: Griphook
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Notes: Pretends to say this to the guards of Gringotts after he betrays Harry, Ron and Hermione and stealing the sword. He is later killed by Voldemort when the latter goes on a rage attack.
  • A...! s-small golden c-cup, m-my Lord...
    • Who: Unidentified goblin killed by Voldemort
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: After Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger robbed Gringotts, the goblin was sent to Lord Voldemort to tell him what was stolen. When the goblin said it was stolen a small golden cup, Voldemort realized that it was his horcrux and killed goblin in a rage attack.
  • Why doesn't Ginny stay here, then at least she'll be on the scene and know what's going on, but she won't be in the middle of the fighting.
    • Who: Remus Lupin
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: As Hogwarts is preparing for battle, and Mrs. Weasley tells Ginny that she's underage, Lupin convinces Mrs. Weasley to let Ginny stay on the grounds but not let her be part of the fighting. Lupin is later killed by Antonin Dolohov during the battle.
  • Have you seen Remus?
    • Who: Nymphadora Tonks
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Tonks is asking Aberforth where Lupin had gone during the Battle of Hogwarts and Ginny tries to assure Tonks that Lupin is alright. Tonks is then killed by Bellatrix Lestrange.
  • Like it hot, scum?
    • Who: Vincent Crabbe
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: In the Room of Requirement, Crabbe and Gregory Goyle attempt to kill Ron, Hermione and Harry, and Crabbe uses a spell that produces strong, magical fire (Fiendfyre). Harry attempts to rescue everyone in question, but they escape and the room seals itself with Crabbe still inside.
  • You actually are joking, Perce...I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-
    • Who: Fred Weasley
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Fred is addressing his older brother, Percy, who had recently rejoined the good side, and is killed in a sudden attack by the Death Eaters as they lay siege to Hogwarts.
  • Look...at...me...
    • Who: Severus Snape
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Voldemort has set his snake, Nagini, upon Snape, and he bleeds to death, but not before giving Harry an essential memory to explain his past and his true allegiance. He looks into Harry's eyes, which are just like his mother Lily's, whom Snape loved, before dying.
  • You weren't.
    • Who: Harry Potter
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Harry realizes that to render Voldemort mortal, he must die as to destroy the Horcrux Voldemort inadvertently planted inside of him upon trying to kill him as an infant. Voldemort at first believes Harry will not respond to his call of offering himself to stop the war around then from killing more of his allies, stating out loud that it seems he 'was mistaken...' when Harry loudly declares this upon arriving. Voldemort does indeed hit him with the killing curse, but Harry is kept alive due to only the Horcrux being destroyed by the curse and comes back to life shortly after.
  • What will happen to your children once I've killed you? When Mummy's gone the same way as Freddie?
    • Who: Bellatrix Lestrange
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: Bellatrix is taunting Mrs. Weasley, whose son Fred has just been killed. Mrs. Weasley shouts back that Bellatrix will "never touch her children again" and kills her with a spell.
  • Avada Kedavra!
    • Who: Tom "Lord Voldemort" Marvolo Riddle
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • Note: He is attempting yet again to kill Harry Potter with the Killing Curse, which rebounds upon him and kills him once and for all, now that his Horcruxes have been destroyed.

Films

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Harry Potter octalogy

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  • What is this magic?!
    • Who: Quirinus Quirrell
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    • Note: Character was trying to kill Harry, but could not hurt him due to a mystical protection surrounding him. When Harry touches his face, the mystical protection causes Quirrell's face and body to turn to stone and then crumble to dust, killing him.
  • What are you doing? Stop! NO!
    • Who: The Horcrux in Tom Riddle's Diary
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    • Note; said when Harry raise a Basilisk fang to impale his diary. Harry does so, destroying the Horcrux and ripping Tom Riddle apart in bright lights.
  • Bloody kids.
    • Who: Frank Bryce
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Note: He says this when he sees lights go on in the window of the Riddle house. He goes inside the house to investigate and hears a conversation among Lord Voldemort, Peter Pettigrew, and Barty Crouch Jr. Nagini the snake finds Bryce and goes to tell Voldemort, who kills Bryce with the Killing Curse.
  • I'm sure your parents would be very proud of you today.
    • Who: Barty Crouch, Sr.
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Note: Said to Harry Potter. Sometime later, Harry and his friends go into the woods with Hagrid, where Harry finds Crouch dead at the hands of his son, Barty Crouch Jr. (in disguise as Alastor Moody). His actual final words are unclear since he is killed off screen, these just being the final words he spoke on camera.
  • Who are you? What do you want?!
    • Who: Cedric Diggory
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Note: He says this upon seeing Peter Pettigrew. After he says this, a voice says, "Kill the spare", followed by Pettigrew killing Cedric with the Killing Curse.
  • I'll be welcomed back like a hero!
    • Who: Barty Crouch, Jr.
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Note: Last words spoken in the film. A deleted scene explained that he had suffered the Dementor's Kiss off-screen, effectively killing Crouch.
  • Nice one, James!
    • Who: Sirius Black
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    • Note: Said to Harry, who looks a lot like his father James, after he knocked out a Death Eater, having already knocked out a follower of Voldemort. Immediately afterward, Bellatrix Lestrange appears and kills him with Avada Kedavra.
  • Severus...please.
    • Who: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    • Note: Said to Severus Snape, begging him to kill him. It's later revealed that Dumbledore was dying, as a consequence of trying to put on a magic ring that belonged to Voldemort.
  • On the count of three! One! Two! Three!
    • Who: Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
    • Note; Said before taking off for The Burrow. He says nothing more before later being killed by Voldemort after Mundungus Fletcher fled. Even if he nearly impossibly survived the curse, the several thousand foot drop ensured his death.
  • It was a boy. It was he who took it. I never saw it again. I swear on my life.
    • Who: Gregorovitch
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
    • Note: Character is confronted by Voldemort, who demands to know where the Elder Wand is. Gregorovitch speaks this line, to which Voldemort responds, "I believe you" and kills him with Avada Kedavra.
  • Ow.
    • Who: Wormtail
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
    • Note: Character says this after being hit with an apparently painful magic attack by Dobby. Although it's debatable whether this attack killed him as it just as easily could have stunned him, his absence in Part 2 suggests that either Dobby's attack killed him, or Voldemort did the next time he arrived, or he lived in Part 2, but spent the rest of his life in Azkaban.
  • Such a beautiful place, to be with friends. Dobby is happy to be with his friend, Harry Potter.
  • Avada Kedavra!
    • Who: Gregory Goyle
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: Said in an attempt to kill Hermione Granger. Dies shortly after upon falling into the fire he ignites in the Room of Requirement in an attempt to kill the trio.
  • My Lord?!
    • Who: Pius Thicknesse
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: Says this to Voldemort, who, frustrated and furious with the recent destruction of a Horcrux and his growing vulnerability, kills him with the killing curse out of sheer frustration.
  • It is the quality of ones convictions that determines success, not the number of followers. (Kingsley: "Who said that?") Me.
  • It's Teddy who needs you.
    • Who: Remus Lupin
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: The first line is said as an encouraging response to Kingsley Shacklebolt's request for reinforcements. The second line is from a deleted scene, where Lupin finds his wife has come to fight the Battle of Hogwarts with him. These are the last words he utters before he is killed in the ensuing battle.
  • He'll sleep 'til dawn, and snore like his father. It's you that needs me tonight.
    • Who: Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: Said in a deleted scene, where she comes to aid her husband in the Battle of Hogwarts. These are the last words she utters before she is killed in the ensuing battle.
  • [George: "You okay, Freddie?"] Yeah. [George: "Me too."]
    • Who: Fred Weasley.
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: Said in response to his brother George asking him if he was okay right before the Battle of Hogwarts begins. These are the last words he utters before he is killed in the ensuing battle.
  • Take it to the pensieve. Look at me. You have your mother's eyes.
    • Who: Severus Snape
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: Voldemort kills Snape because he believes Snape is the true master of the Elder Wand, and thus he must kill Snape to gain its power. He slashes Snape's throat with Sectemsempra, and then has Nagini finish Snape. After Voldemort and Nagini leave, Harry enters with his friends. Snape appears to be crying, but he is actually releasing his memories. Harry puts them in a flask. After he does so, Snape says this line and dies.
  • Harry. Harry, you are loved. You are so loved. Harry, Mama loves you. Dada loves you. Harry, be safe. Be strong.
  • No! No, come back! Lucius! Come back! Come back and fight! Come back!
    • Who: Bellatrix Lestrange
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: She yells this line to Lucius Malfoy trying to make him join the battle, but he flees with his wife and son. Bellatrix later fights Molly Weasley during the battle, but she is eventually killed by Molly after a brief duel with nothing but a few laughs spoken.
  • Ya! I killed Snape.
    • Who: Lord Voldemort
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
    • Notes: Voldemort says this line to Harry when they met atop Hogwarts Clock Tower and the line itself is in reference to Harry after he claims the Elder Wand won't work for him because he didn't kill its proper master (Voldemort assumed it was Snape). They then enter a long sequence of smoke teleportation, ending with a final duel in the Entrance Courtyard. After a brief wand clash, he is finally killed after the Wand refuses to kill its real master, Harry, and backfires his curse onto him which turned him into ash. The casting of his final curse had the audio sucked out in the film but his lack of mouth movement implies it was a silent curse.

Fantastic Beasts series

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  • ...and it's true we have made some progress, but there is no reward for idleness. So just as the odious saloons have been banished...so now the pool halls, and these private parlours...
  • What is this?

Video games

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  • Master, you...you're not strong enough.
    • Who: Quirinus Quirrell
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: The Game
  • Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four!
    • Who: Tom Riddle's memory
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Game
  • I'm not leaving you.
    • Who: Cedric Diggory
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Game
  • You've proved you can take on children, Malfoy. Care to fight like a man?!
    • Who: Sirius Black
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Game
  • Such a beautiful night...to be with friends. Dobby is happy...to be with his friend...Harry Potter...
    • Who: Dobby
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1: The Game
  • I'll get you, Potter! You have no idea what I've learnt!
    • Who: Gregory Goyle
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2: The Game
  • Take them...take my memories. You have your mother's eyes...
    • Who: Severus Snape
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2: The Game
  • You should get off your feet more!
    • Who: Bellatrix Lestrange
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2: The Game
    • Note: Character is mocking her opponent, Molly Weasley, in a duel to the death

Stage plays

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  • I'm scared.
    • Who: Ron Weasley
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
    • Note: In an alternate timeline created by Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy's interference at the 1995 Triwizard Tournament, Lord Voldemort successfully wins the Battle of Hogwarts and takes over the Wizarding World. Exposed as a member of a resistance movement, Ron is given the Dementor's Kiss and rendered permanently catatonic.
  • Kiss me.
    • Who: Hermione Granger
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
    • Note: In an alternate timeline created by Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy's interference at the 1995 Triwizard Tournament, Lord Voldemort successfully wins the Battle of Hogwarts and takes over the Wizarding World. Exposed as a member of a resistance movement, Hermione is given the Dementor's Kiss and rendered permanently catatonic, while embracing her lover, Ron Weasley.
  • Tell Albus — tell Albus Severus — I'm proud he carries my name. Now go. Go.
    • Who: Severus Snape
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
    • Note: In an alternate timeline created by Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy's interference at the 1995 Triwizard Tournament, Lord Voldemort successfully wins the Battle of Hogwarts and takes over the Wizarding World. Exposed as a member of a resistance movement, Snape is given the Dementor's Kiss and rendered permanently catatonic.
  • What's happening?
    • Who: Craig Bowker, Jr.
    • Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
    • Note: Killed by Delphini Riddle with the Killing Curse when he stumbled on her attacker Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy.
 
Harry Potter  (book series, film series) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone book film
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets book film
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban book film
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire book film
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix book film
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book film
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book films part 1 and part 2
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play
last words in Harry Potter media books films games
Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them book film
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald film
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore film
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