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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.
Jack Thorne Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
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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.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

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