Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Book ·347 of 348
"You're a wizard, Harry."
They never said that.
What people say
"You're a wizard, Harry."
What was actually said
"Yer a wizard, Harry." Rubeus Hagrid — Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
Why it stuck
J.K. Rowling renders Hagrid's West Country dialect in spelling throughout the series — "Yer," not "You're." The film kept the contraction; meme culture re-standardised it.
The book version is "Yer a wizard, Harry — an' a thumpin' good'un, I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit."
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