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Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.
Sep 29, 2025
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.
The wand chooses the wizard.
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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