Quotes from
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

-- Quotes of Notoriety and Significance --


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Book Seven
While each of the previous Potter books has strong claims on my affections, 'Deathly Hallows' is my favourite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series.… J. K. Rowling
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Look, I'm not going to blast people out of my way just because they're there. That's Voldemort's job!… Harry Potter to Lupin
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No, (Harry) I think you're like James who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.… Remus Lupin to Harry
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I'd do up your fly (zip up your pant's zipper) by hand, though…… Ron Weasley to Harry about zipping his zipper using magic
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Harry, don't you see how sick it is, the way they've (house elves) got to obey?… Hermione about house elf enslavement
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Any wizard who's against You-Know-Who ought to make helping Harry Potter their number one priority.… Xenophilius Lovegood in the Quibbler
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Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.… Sentiment on Kendra and Ariana Dumbledore's tombstone
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.… Sentiment on James and Lily Potter's tombstone
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Look what he (Dumbledore) asked from me, Hermione! Risk your life, Harry! And again! And again! And don't expect me to explain everything, just trust me blindly, trust that I know what I'm doing, trust me even though I don't trust you! Never the whole truth! Never!… Harry to Hermione about Dumbledore
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I don't know who he (Dumbledore) loved, Hermione, but it was never me. This isn't love, the mess he's left me in. He shared a damn sight more of what he was really thinking with Gellert Grindelwald than he ever shared with me.… Harry to Hermione about Dumbledore
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Because… sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is War!… Harry Potter to Aberforth Dumbledore
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How can you be sure, Potter, that my brother wasn't more interested in the 'greater good' than in you? How can you be sure you aren't dispensable, just like my little sister?… Aberforth Dumbledore to Harry
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Your brother knew how to finish You-Know-Who and he passed the knowledge on to me. I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've know it for years.… Harry Potter to Aberforth Dumbledore
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The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them (the tyrants), it gives everyone hope. I used to notice that when you did it, Harry.… Neville Longbottom to Ron and Harry
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You see what you expect to see, Severus. Other teachers report that the boy is modest, likeable, and reasonably talented. Personally, I find him an engaging child.… Albus Dumbledore to Severus Snape
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My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?... If you insist…… Albus Dumbledore to Severus Snape
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You alone know whether it will harm your soul to help an old man avoid pain and humiliation. I ask this one great favor of you, Severus, because death is coming to me… I would prefer it quick and painless… instead of from Fenrir… or Bellatrix, who likes to play with her food before she eats it.… Albus Dumbledore to Severus Snape
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That boy's (Draco's) soul is not yet so damaged. I would not have it ripped apart on my account.… Albus Dumbledore to Severus Snape
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(Then… I'm dead too?) Ah, that is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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(I didn't defend myself, I meant to let him kill me!) And that, will, I think, have made all the difference.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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(So that part is gone?) Oh yes! He destroyed it. (that part of Riddle) Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it! Your blood in his veins, Harry, Lily's protection inside both of you! He tethered you to life while he lives!… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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You were the seventh Horcrux, Harry, the Horcrux he never meant to make. He had rendered is soul to unstable that it broke apart when he committed those acts of unspeakable evil, the murder of your parents, the attempted killing of a child.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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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.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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If he could only have understood the precise and terrible power of that sacrifice (lily's), he would not have dared touch your blood. But then, IF he had been able to understand, he could not be Lord Voldemort, and might never have murdered at all.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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Your wand now contained the power of your enormous courage and of Voldemort's own deadly skill: What chance did that poor stick of Lucius Malfoy's stand?… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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Your wands… echoed the relationship between their masters… Your wand recognized him when he pursued you, recognized a man who was both kin and mortal enemy, and it regurgitated some of his own magic against him.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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He was more afraid than you were that night, Harry. You had accepted, even embraced, the possibility of death, something Lord Voldemort has never been able to do.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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My dear boy, I have no idea (where we are). This is, as they say, your party.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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Can you forgive me for not trusting you? Harry, I only feared that you would fail as I had failed. I only dreaded that you would make my mistakes. I crave your pardon, Harry. I have known, for some time now, that you are the better man.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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They're real (the Hallows), and dangerous, and a lure for fools. And I was such a fool.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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Of course you were (better than Voldemort). You never killed if you could avoid it! … (I sought a way to conquer death) Not the way he did! Hallows, not Horcruxes.… Harry Potter to Dumbledore
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The story of them being Death's own Hallows seems to me the sort of legend that might have sprung up around such creations.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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You cannot imagine how his (Grindelwald's) ideas… inflamed me. Muggle's forced into subservience. We wizards triumphant. (He) and I the glorious young wizards of the revolution.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry (about his past)
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Oh, I had a few scruples. I assuaged my conscience with empty words. I would all be for the greater good, and any harm done would be repaid a hundredfold in benefits for wizards.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry (about his past)
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Did I know (about Grindelwald)? I think I did, but I closed my eyes… my dreams might come true.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry (about his past)
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The true magic (of the cloak), of course, is that it can be used to protect and shield others as well as its owner.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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Invincible masters of death, Grindelwald and Dumbledore! Two months of insanity, of cruel dreams, and neglect of the only two members of my family left to me.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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He (Grindelwald) fled… while I was left to bury my sister, and learn to live with my guilt and my terrible grief, the price of my shame.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry (about his past)
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I had proven, as a very young man, that power was my weakness and my temptation. 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.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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A man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to posses the meanest of them… the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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The cloak I took out of vain curiosity, and so it could never have worked for me as it works for you, it's true owner.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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The stone I would have used in an attempt to drag back those who are at peace, rather than to enable my self-sacrifice, as you did. You are the worthy possessor of the Hallows.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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(Why did you make it so hard?) I am afraid I counted on Miss Granger to slow you up, Harry. I was afraid that your hot head might dominate your good heart.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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I wanted you to possess them safely. You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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I think that if you choose to return (to life), there is a chance that he (Voldemort) may be finished for good. I cannot promise it. But, I know this, Harry, that you have less to fear from returning here (death) than he does.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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Of course (this) is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?… Albus Dumbledore to Harry
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