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As many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive.

— J. K. Rowling

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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.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)

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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