albus-dumbledore

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own ____hat__ enough, Phineas,_ said Dumbledore.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

You know, I sometimes think that we Sort too soon....

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.

In dreams, we enter a world that__ entirely our own.

DUMBLEDORE: You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.HARRY: So I__ supposed to stand and watch?DUMBLEDORE: No. You__e supposed to teach him how to meet life.

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.

DUMBLEDORE: No. I was protecting you. I did not want to hurt you_.

In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.

Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid."You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore."I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.

I call you children because that is what you are. You have not fended for yourselves, you have not felt the terrible blows that life gives you. As we speak, there is hatred and prejudice residing in our world's heart. Now a man can make a difference in the world, even if it is a small one. We all have fates, including me. We can choose to make that fate one that will bring hope, or one that will bring destruction. Times are changing, and we must grow wiser for it. So now I must encourage you- I must beg you-when you leave these school walls and enter this world, to not be as idiotic and imbecilic as the generation before you.

You are blinded,_ said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, __y the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! 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 up to be!

Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid.___ don__ ____ cared about you too much,_ said Dumbledore simply. __ cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.__s there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have _ and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined _ not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.

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