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They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.
Sep 24, 2025
Don't let the muggles get you down.
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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.
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.
Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
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.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.
To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who should be hard working, admit their mistakes - and we made a lot of mistakes - make an honest self-critic but change what we did wrong. What did we do wrong? We built a state which is big, which is corrupted, which is a state which should radically change. What is Mr Tsipras saying - keep it as it is, so everything that is old belongs to him.
He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far — something that neither your parents, nor Neville’s parents, ever achieved.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
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.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
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.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
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.