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

— J. K. Rowling Harvard address (2008)

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Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere.

There's the silver lining I've been looking for.

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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

The wizards represent all that the true "muggle" most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

They see it for what it is [...] It is a fantasy world and they understand that completely.

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