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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!

— 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.

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies; but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

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