I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
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I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
The ones that love us never really leave us.
To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.
One can never have enough socks
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
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