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Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
J.K. Rowling
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
But you're dead,' said Harry.'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.'Then... am I dead too?''Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
Prongs rode again last nightYou know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night.You found him inside yourself.
There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.
happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if you just remember to turn on the lights
I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...Yes, they do that, said Dumbledore.
Don't count your owls before they are delivered.
...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.
P.S. I enjoy acid pops.
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.
Crackers! said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.
You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!