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Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London Underground.
Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Liquorice Wands and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.
‘We’ve had Sprout’s, that was the Devil’s Snare – Flitwick must’ve put charms on the keys – McGonagall transfigured the chessmen to make them alive – that leaves Quirrell’s spell, and Snape’s …’
After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things which are worst for them.’
Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.’
‘The truth.’ Dumbledore sighed. ‘It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign … to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection for ever.
My brain surprises even me sometimes …
