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“The legacy characters ... are ultimately defined by loss.” I could never understand the nihilism of the expanded universe when the original Star Wars trilogy radiated hope and optimism.

Phil Szostak: 'Who is Luke Skywalker?' This question was first posed by production designer Rick Carter.
Me: Did you not watch the original trilogy? Who on earth hired you for this project?

Hermoine: I notice I'm always the one who ends up sorting out the food because I'm a girl, I suppose!

Reich: We are the authors of our own fates. But, as I have made clear, we are not the producers or directors of the larger dramas in which we find ourselves.

Scrimgeour: Would you say you were close to Dumbledore, Ronald?
Ron: Me? Not -- not really ...
Scrimgeour: If you were not very close to Dumbledore, how do you account for the fact that he remembered you in his will?
Ron: ... when I saw we weren't close ... I mean, I think he liked me ...
Hermoine: You're being modest, Ron. Dumbledore was very fond of you.

Chapter 11 The Hidden Mechanism Of CEO Pay: Meanwhile, you and I, and other taxpayers are subsidizing all this. That’s because corporations deduct CEO pay from their income taxes, requiring the rest of us to pay more proportionally in taxes to make up the difference. 🤬

Reich: Defanging laws by hollowing our the agencies charged with implementing them works because the public doesn’t know it’s happening.

Ron: What are you doing with all those books, anyway?
Hermione: Just trying to decide which ones to take with us.
Ron: Of course, I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.
Me: I rather fancy the idea of fighting Voldemort in a bookmobile.

Reich: Few ideas have more profoundly poisoned the minds of more people than the notion of a “free market” existing somewhere in the universe into which government “intrudes.”

I’m not sure if capitalism should be saved. Perhaps this book will change my mind.

“Opal was never prepared for when things would go wrong. She just had to be afraid all the time.”

Dumbledore: It is my mercy, and not yours, that matters now.
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Dumbledore: Jokes? No, no, these are manners.

Dumbledore: You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort's!
Me: So, the dichotomy in this world is between love and power?

I always found the horcrux math confusing. Voldemort supposedly split his soul in 7 pieces, but I counted 7 horcruxes, making 8 pieces.

Mr. Weasley: Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now that I stop and think about it. Well, all I can say is that it was a lucky day for the Weasleys when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the Hogwarts Express, Harry.

Harry: Professor, did you understand— ?
Dumbledore: Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me.

Harry: Did you know -- then?
Dumbledore: Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.

Dumbledore: Merope Riddle chose death in spite of a son who needed her, but do not judge her too harshly, Harry. She was greatly weakened by long suffering and she never had your mother's courage.

Hermoine: Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Luna: I enjoyed the [D.A.] meetings, too. It was like having friends.

Fleur: There isn’t much to do [at the Burrow] unless you like cooking and chickens!

Uncle Vernon: I don’t mean to be rude ...
Dumbledore: — yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often.

Snape: [Harry Potter] has fought himself out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends.

“Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike.”

“Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike.”

Jestyn: I have never been sure whether I did the right thing or the wrong one after all. What is wrong in one world is right in another.

Jestyn: Alas, in cold blood, I have never been the stuff of which heroes are forged.

Orm: If it was me, I'd appeal to the Judgement of the Thing and accept their settlement as to Wyr Geld. Blood will not bring the old wolf back, and gold has always its uses.
Thormod: Yet for the old wolf -- blood may give him the better right to sit with his head high in Valhalla.

"My stepfather must have hoped that my mother would have other children for him, but she never did, and I think, for that, he hated me. He was not cruel to me, but on the night she died, while she lay in the house-place with her hair combed and her hands folded, and the candles burning at her head and feet, he opened the house-place door and said to me, 'The door is open.' And I walked through it and away."

Umbridge: Potter has no chance whatsoever of becoming an Auror!
McGonagall: Potter, I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do! I have to coach you nightly, I will make sure you achieve the required results!