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The wand chooses the wizard.
Sep 10, 2025
And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
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.
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
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.
Power was my weakness and my temptation.
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!
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.
Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.
Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
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.
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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