I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.

The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal.

but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who never really sought it

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —