Quotes About Albus Dumbledore

#1. You're not," he said, his quiet voice full of hatred. "Not what?" snapped Riddle. "Not the greatest sorcerer in the world," said Harry, breathing fast. "Sorry to disappoint you and all that, but the greatest wizard in the world is Albus Dumbledore. Everyone says so.

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#2. It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Albus Dumbledore

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#3. The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

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#4. Minerva McGonagall was one of only a handful of people who knew, or suspected, how dreadful a moment it was for Albus Dumbledore when, in 1945, he made the decision to confront and defeat the Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald.

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#5. I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

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#6. Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame -

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#7. He had made his choice while he dug Dobby's grave, he had decided to continue along the winding, dangerous path indicated for him by Albus Dumbledore, to accept that he had not been told everything that he wanted to know, but simply to trust.

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#8. Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

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#9. 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!

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#10. The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal.

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#11. There is life beyond death ... never fear what can be escaped.

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#12. Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

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#13. Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore

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#14. I sought a third wand, Severus. The Elder Wand, the Wand of Destiny, the Deathstick. I took it from its previous master. I took it from the grave of Albus Dumbledore.

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#15. Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ. - Albus Dumbledore

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#16. Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone,

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#17. We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore

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#18. Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.

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

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#20. Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?'
'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

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

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#22. When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear ... -Albus Dumbledore

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#23. The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

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#24. I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

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#25. I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

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#26. In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

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#27. Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

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#28. Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.

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#29. Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome.

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#30. Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

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

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#32. Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban" -

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

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