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“There is a room in the department of mysteries,” interrupted Dumbledore, “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 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.”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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She said nothing, but marched Harry and Marietta to the door.  As it swung closed behind them, Harry heard Phineas Nigellus’s voice.

“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts . . . but you cannot deny he’s got style. . . .”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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“Ah,” said Dumbledore gently, “yes.  Yes, I thought we might hit that little snag.”
“Snag?” said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy.  “I see no snag, Dumbledore!”

“Well,” said Dumbledore apologetically, “I’m afraid I do.”

“Oh really?”

“Well — it’s just that you seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am going to — what is the phrase?  ‘Come quietly.’  I am afraid that I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius.  I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban.  I could break out, of course — but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided… Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling

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“You place too much importance, and you always have done, 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!”

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling

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“It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling

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For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore’s eyes.

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“Oh I would never dream of assuming I knew all of Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor,” said Dumbledore amicably.  “Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots.  When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished.  But I must keep an eye out for it.  Possibly it is only accessible at five-thirty in the morning.  Or it may only appear at the quarter moon — or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.”

Harry snorted into his plate of goulash.  Percy frowned, but Harry could have sworn Dumbledore had given him a very small wink.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling