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Albus Dumbledore didn’t seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome.
Voldemort had powers I will never have.” “Only because you’re too — well — noble to use them.”
People who was on his side came back ter ours. Some of ’em came outta kinda trances.
if he was really a wizard, why hadn’t they been turned into warty toads every time they’d tried to lock him in his cupboard? If he’d once defeated the greatest sorcerer in the world, how come Dudley had always been able to kick him around like a football?
For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn.
How often had they complained how much Harry cost them to keep?
“I really don’t think they should let the other sort in, do you? They’re just not the same, they’ve never been brought up to know our ways. Some of them have never even heard of Hogwarts until they get the letter, imagine. I think they should keep it in the old wizarding families.
some o’ the best I ever saw were the only ones with magic in ’em in a long line o’ Muggles —
“I’m the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I’ve got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left — Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy’s a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they’re really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it’s no big deal, because they did it first. You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I’ve got Bill’s old robes, Charlie’s old wand, and Percy’s old rat.”
“You won’t be. There’s loads of people who come from Muggle families and they learn quick enough.”
and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel.
“They were some of the first to come back to our side after You-Know-Who disappeared. Said they’d been bewitched. My dad doesn’t believe it. He says Malfoy’s father didn’t need an excuse to go over to the Dark Side.”
“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!
Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione a rare smile.
Lots of people had come from Muggle families and, like him, hadn’t had any idea that they were witches and wizards.
but Professor McGonagall, who could spot trouble quicker than any teacher in the school, was there in a flash.
“I want to hear you’re training hard, Potter, or I may change my mind about punishing you.” Then she suddenly smiled. “Your father would have been proud,” she said. “He was an excellent Quidditch player himself.”
Harry watched Hagrid getting redder and redder in the face as he called for more wine, finally kissing Professor McGonagall on the cheek, who, to Harry’s amazement, giggled and blushed, her top hat lopsided.
“It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. You, who have never known your family, see them standing around you. Ronald Weasley, who has always been overshadowed by his brothers, sees himself standing alone, the best of all of them. However, this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live,
Centaurs are concerned with what has been foretold! It is not our business to run around like donkeys after stray humans in our forest!”
Losing points doesn’t matter anymore, can’t you see? D’you think he’ll leave you and your families alone if Gryffindor wins the House Cup?
There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. . . .
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that 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.
to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
“He’s a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don’t think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked. It’s almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could. . . .”
“Sent owls off ter all yer parents’ old school friends, askin’ fer photos . . . knew yeh didn’ have any . . . d’yeh like it?” Harry couldn’t speak, but Hagrid understood.
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
