We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

-Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, page 299

Harry―yer a wizard.

You’ve got to give the door something?’
‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistaken.’
‘Blood?’
‘I said it was crude,’ said Dumbledore, who sounded disdainful, even disappointed, as though Voldemort had fallen short of the standards Dumbledore expected.