#dumbledore

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#secret

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. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #order-of-phoenix #death

You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hagrid #life

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#business

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dumbledore #harry-potter #killing #death

My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?’ Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape’s ferocious, anguished face. ‘If you insist … ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#severus-snape #death

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #death

Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. "Avada Kedavra! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #dumbledore #snape #death

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dumbledore #sacrifices #death

The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .” “Ah, yes. How much did you relay to Lord Voldemort?” “Everything — everything I heard! That is why — it is for that reason — he thinks it means Lily Evans!” “The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July —” “You know what I mean! He thinks it means her son, he is going to hunt her down — kill them all —” “If she means so much to you, surely Lord Voldemort will spare her? Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?” “I have — I have asked him —” “You disgust me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#anguish #disgust #lily-evans #prophecy #severus-snape