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Beedle’s stories have helped generations of wizarding parents to explain this painful fact of life to their young children: that magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
Asha, Altheda, Amata and Babbitty Rabbitty are all witches who take their fate into their own hands, rather than taking a prolonged nap or waiting for someone to return a lost shoe.
The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.
Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Order of Merlin (First Class), Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot.
‘It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.’
This exchange marked the beginning of Mr Malfoy’s long campaign to have me removed from my post as Headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort’s Favourite Death Eater.
It addresses one of the greatest, and least acknowledged, temptations of magic: the quest for invulnerability.
No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman.
human efforts to evade or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.
humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
which only goes to show that, clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.
