--- title: "27 Said Dumbledore Quotes By J.K. Rowling" description: "27 Said Dumbledore quotes by J.K. Rowling. Plus more from J.K. Rowling and more Said Dumbledore sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/050/j-k-rowling-86_harry_ah-said-dumbledore-gently-yes-yes-i-thou_776872.png" --- > [“Ah,” said Dumbledore gently, “yes. Yes, I thought we might hit that little snag.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/ah-said-dumbledore-gently-yes-yes-i-thought-we-might-hit-that-little/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/050/j-k-rowling-86_harry_ah-said-dumbledore-gently-yes-yes-i-thou_776872.png) > [“Oh yes!” said Dumbledore. “Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/oh-yes-said-dumbledore-yes-he-destroyed-it-your-soul-is-whole-and/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/j-k-rowling-86_destroyed_oh-yes-said-dumbledore-yes-he-destroyed_3047583.png) > [“I would trust Hagrid with my life,” said Dumbledore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/i-would-trust-hagrid-with-my-life-said-dumbledore/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d1/j-k-rowling-86_harry_i-would-trust-hagrid-with-my-life-said-d_2903275.png) > [“They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here and you're in my power. I'm the one with the wand. You're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/they-thought-i-d-die-in-the-attempt-but-i-m-here-and-you-re-in-my/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dd/j-k-rowling-86_compassion_they-thought-i-d-die-in-the-attempt-but_387864.png) > [“if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time,” said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/if-you-are-holding-out-for-universal-popularity-i-m-afraid-you-will/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/j-k-rowling-86_harry_if-you-are-holding-out-for-universal-pop_1320943.png) > [“I guessed, fifteen years ago,’ said Dumbledore, ‘when I saw the scar on your forehead, what it might mean. I guessed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/i-guessed-fifteen-years-ago-said-dumbledore-when-i-saw-the-scar-on/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/j-k-rowling-86_fifteen-years_i-guessed-fifteen-years-ago-said-dumbled_1367301.png) > [“It certainly seems so,’ said Dumbledore. ‘We have much to be thankful for. Would you care for a sherbet lemon?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/it-certainly-seems-so-said-dumbledore-we-have-much-to-be-thankful-for/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/j-k-rowling-86_certainly_it-certainly-seems-so-said-dumbledore-we_310983.png) > [“Still, it’s cool,” said Ron, a little defensively. “And from what they said, Dumbledore invented it himself!” “I know, but surely he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/still-it-s-cool-said-ron-a-little-defensively-and-from-what-they-said/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/j-k-rowling-86_harry_still-it-s-cool-said-ron-a-little-defens_2270970.jpg) > [“Third - to Mr. Harry Potter,' said Dumbledore. The room went deadly quiet. '...for pure nerve and outstanding courage, I award Gryffindor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/third-to-mr-harry-potter-said-dumbledore-the-room-went-deadly-quiet/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e61/j-k-rowling-86_courage_third-to-mr-harry-potter-said-dumbledore_2175744.png) > [“However', said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/however-said-dumbledore-speaking-very-slowly-and-clearly-so-that-none/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/213/j-k-rowling-86_dumbledore_however-said-dumbledore-speaking-very-sl_281069.png) > [“There are all kinds of courage," said Dumbledore, smiling. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/there-are-all-kinds-of-courage-said-dumbledore-smiling-it-takes-a/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/j-k-rowling-86_albus-dumbledore_there-are-all-kinds-of-courage-said-dumb_1680745.jpg) > [“Spoken both like your mother and father's son and sirius's true godson' said Dumbledore, with an approving pat on Harry's back. ,I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/spoken-both-like-your-mother-and-father-s-son-and-sirius-s-true/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/j-k-rowling-86_harry_spoken-both-like-your-mother-and-father_2580888.jpg) > [“I may be wrong,” said Dumbledore pleasantly, “but I am sure that under the Wizengamot Charter of Rights, the accused has the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/i-may-be-wrong-said-dumbledore-pleasantly-but-i-am-sure-that-under/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93d/j-k-rowling-86_harry_i-may-be-wrong-said-dumbledore-pleasantl_2561414.jpg) > [“Under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped cut, like a bolt of lightning. "Is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/under-a-tuft-of-jet-black-hair-over-his-forehead-they-could-see-a/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8c/j-k-rowling-86_black-hair_under-a-tuft-of-jet-black-hair-over-his_897167.png) > [“I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/i-have-spied-for-you-and-lied-for-you-put-myself-in-mortal-danger-for/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df1/j-k-rowling-86_death_i-have-spied-for-you-and-lied-for-you-pu_2706275.jpg) > [“You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly. The tension that had filled the Hall ever since Moody’s arrival suddenly broke. Nearly everyone laughed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/you-re-joking-said-fred-weasley-loudly-the-tension-that-had-filled/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/j-k-rowling-86_fred-weasley_you-re-joking-said-fred-weasley-loudly-t_935060.jpg) > [“You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?' called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed over the top of the shield. 'Above such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/you-do-not-seek-to-kill-me-dumbledore-called-voldemort-his-scarlet/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/089/j-k-rowling-86_death_you-do-not-seek-to-kill-me-dumbledore-ca_295922.png) > [“Professor Dumbledore. Can I ask you something?" "Obviously, you've just done so," Dumbledore smiled. "You may ask me one more thing, however."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/professor-dumbledore-can-i-ask-you-something-obviously-you-ve-just/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/j-k-rowling-86_dumbledore_professor-dumbledore-can-i-ask-you-somet_1341789.jpg) > [“Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?" Harry shook his head. "Let me explain. The happiest man on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/can-you-think-what-the-mirror-of-erised-shows-us-all-harry-shook-his/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/j-k-rowling-86_dumbledore_can-you-think-what-the-mirror-of-erised_940852.jpg) > [“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dum-bledore loudly. "The only protection that can possibly work against the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/you-are-protected-in-short-by-your-ability-to-love-said-dum-bledore/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abb/j-k-rowling-86_ability-to-love_you-are-protected-in-short-by-your-abili_444470.jpg) > [“Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/do-you-see-harry-do-you-see-the-flaw-in-my-brilliant-plan-now-i-had/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09e/j-k-rowling-86_albus-dumbledore_do-you-see-harry-do-you-see-the-flaw-in_564124.jpg) > [“Can you forgive me?” he said. “Can you forgive me for not trusting you? For not telling you? Harry, I only feared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/can-you-forgive-me-he-said-can-you-forgive-me-for-not-trusting-you/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/j-k-rowling-86_better-man_can-you-forgive-me-he-said-can-you-forgi_1400329.png) > [“Albus Dumbledore was walking toward him, sprightly and upright, wearing sweeping robes of midnight blue. “Harry.” He spread his arms wide, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/albus-dumbledore-was-walking-toward-him-sprightly-and-upright-wearing/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/j-k-rowling-86_brave-man_albus-dumbledore-was-walking-toward-him_1038357.jpg) > [“So the boy…the boy must die?” asked Snape quite calmly. “And Voldemort himself must do it, Severus. That is essential.” Another long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/so-the-boy-the-boy-must-die-asked-snape-quite-calmly-and-voldemort/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6b/j-k-rowling-86_harry_so-the-boy-the-boy-must-die-asked-snape_2149825.png) > [“Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/harry-suffering-like-this-proves-you-are-still-a-man-this-pain-is-2/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/j-k-rowling-86_different-directions_harry-suffering-like-this-proves-you-are_3002373.png) > [“A second later, Ron had snatched his arm back from around her shoulders; she had dropped The Monster Book of Monsters on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/a-second-later-ron-had-snatched-his-arm-back-from-around-her/) [J.K. 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"Ron!" Lily and Hugo laughed, but Albus and Rose looked solemn. "He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/if-you-re-not-gryffindor-we-ll-disinherit-you-said-ron-but-no/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) > [“You want to give it a look, Xeno is printing all the stuff the Prophet’s ignoring, not a single mention of Crumple-Horned Snorkacks in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/you-want-to-give-it-a-look-xeno-is-printing-all-the-stuff-the-prophet/) [J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/) > [“He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Sellotape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/he-wore-round-glasses-held-together-with-a-lot-of-sellotape-because/) [J.K. 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Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible. \"The Mirror will be moved to a new home tomorrow, Harry, and I ask you not to go looking for it again. If you ever do run across it, you will now be prepared. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. Now, why don't you put that admirable cloak back on and get off to bed.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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You have flitted into Lord Voldemort's mind without damage to yourself, but he cannot possess you with-out enduring mortal agony, as he discovered in the Ministry. I do not think he understands why, Harry, but then, he was in such a hurry to mutilate his own soul, he never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole.\" \"But, sir,\" said Harry, making valiant efforts not to sound argu-mentative, \"it all comes to the same thing, doesn't it? I've got to try and kill him, or —\" \"Got to?\" said Dumbledore. \"Of course you've got to! But not because of the prophecy! Because you, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! We both know it! Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy! How would you feel about Voldemort now? Think!\" Harry watched Dumbledore striding up and down in front ol him, and thought. He thought of his mother, his father, and Sinus. He thought of Cedric Diggory. He thought of all the terrible deeds he knew Lord Voldemort had done. A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat. \"I'd want him finished,\" said Harry quietly. \"And I'd want to do it.\" \"Of course you would!\" cried Dumbledore. \"You see, the prophecy does not mean you have to do anything! But the prophecy caused Lord Voldemort to mark you as his equal. ... In other words, you are free to choose your way, quite free to turn your back on the prophecy! But Voldemort continues to set store by the prophecy. He will continue to hunt you . . . which makes it certain, really, that —\" \"That one of us is going to end up killing the other,\" said Harry. \"Yes.\" But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumble-dore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid.” “I don’t —” “I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act. “Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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For not telling you? Harry, I only feared that you would fail as I had failed. I only dreaded that you would make my mistakes. I crave your pardon, Harry. I have known, for some time now, that you are the better man.” “What are you talking about?” asked Harry, startled by Dumbledore’s tone, by the sudden tears in his eyes. “The Hallows, the Hallows,” murmured Dumbledore. “A desperate man’s dream!” “But they’re real!” “Real, and dangerous, and a lure for fools,” said Dumbledore. “And I was such a fool. But you know, don’t you? I have no secrets from you anymore. You know.” “What do I know?” Dumbledore turned his whole body to face Harry, and tears still sparkled in the brilliantly blue eyes. “Master of death, Harry, master of Death! Was I better, ultimately, than Voldemort?” “Of course you were,” said Harry. “Of course--how can you ask that? You never killed if you could avoid it!” “True, true,” said Dumbledore, and he was like a child seeking reassurance. “Yet I too sought a way to conquer death, Harry.” “Not the way he did,” said Harry. After all his anger at Dumbledore, how odd it was to sit here, beneath the high, vaulted ceiling, and defend Dumbledore from himself. “Hallows, not Horcruxes.” “Hallows,” murmured Dumbledore, “not Horcruxes. Precisely.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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And yet… “But you’re dead,” said Harry. “Oh yes,” said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. “Then…I’m dead too?” “Ah,” said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. “That is the question, isn’t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.” They looked at each other, the old man still beaming. “Not?” repeated Harry. “Not,” said Dumbledore. “But…” Harry raised his hand instinctively toward the lightning scar. It did not seem to be there. “But I should have died--I didn’t defend myself! I meant to let him kill me!” “And that,” said Dumbledore, “will, I think, have made all the difference.” Happiness seemed to radiate from Dumbledore like light, like fire: Harry had never seen the man so utterly, so palpably content. “Explain,” said Harry. “But you already know,” said Dumbledore. He twiddled his thumbs together. “I let him kill me,” said Harry. “Didn’t I?” “You did,” said Dumbledore, nodding. “Go on!” “So the part of his soul that was in me…” Dumbledore nodded still more enthusiastically, urging Harry onward, a broad smile of encouragement on his face. “…has it gone?” “Oh yes!” said Dumbledore. “Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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That is essential.” Another long silence. Then Snape said, “I thought…all these years…that we were protecting him for her. For Lily.” “We have protected him because it has been essential to teach him, to raise him, to let him try his strength,” said Dumbledore, his eyes still tight shut. “Meanwhile, the connection between them grows ever stronger, a parasitic growth: Sometimes I have thought he suspects it himself. If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it will truly mean the end of Voldemort.” Dumbledore opened his eyes. Snape looked horrified. “You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?” “Don’t be shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?” “Lately, only those whom I could not save,” said Snape. He stood up. “You have used me.” “Meaning?” “I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter--” “But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” “For him ?” shouted Snape. “ Expecto Patronum! ” From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe: She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared, and he seized one of the delicate silver instruments from the spindle-legged table beside him and flung it across the room. It shattered into a hundred tiny pieces against the wall. Several of the pictures let out yells of anger and fright, and the portrait of Armando Dippet said, “Really!” “I DON’T CARE!” Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. “I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE —” He seized the table on which the silver instrument had stood and threw that too. It broke apart on the floor and the legs rolled in different directions. “You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. Rowling" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/harry-suffering-like-this-proves-you-are-still-a-man-this-pain-is-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/j-k-rowling-86_different-directions_harry-suffering-like-this-proves-you-are_3002373.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/j-k-rowling-86_different-directions_harry-suffering-like-this-proves-you-are_3002373.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/j-k-rowling-86_different-directions_harry-suffering-like-this-proves-you-are_3002373.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T…” — J.K. Rowling", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A second later, Ron had snatched his arm back from around her shoulders; she had dropped The Monster Book of Monsters on his foot. The book had broken free from its restraining belt and snapped viciously at Ron’s ankle. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Hermione cried as Harry wrenched the book from Ron’s leg and retied it shut. “What are you doing with all those books anyway?” Ron asked, limping back to his bed. “Just trying to decide which ones to take with us,” said Hermione. “When we’re looking for the Horcruxes.” “Oh, of course,” said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. “I forgot we’ll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.” “Ha ha,” said Hermione, looking down at Spellman’s Syllabary. “I wonder…will we need to translate runes? It’s possible…I think we’d better take it, to be safe.” She dropped the syllabary onto the larger of the two piles and picked up Hogwarts, A History. “Listen,” said Harry. He had sat up straight. Ron and Hermione looked at him with similar mixtures of resignation and defiance. “I know you said after Dumbledore’s funeral that you wanted to come with me,” Harry began. “Here he goes,” Ron said to Hermione, rolling his eyes. “As we knew he would,” she sighed, turning back to the books. “You know, I think I will take Hogwarts, A History. Even if we’re not going back there, I don’t think I’d feel right if I didn’t have it with--” “Listen!” said Harry again. “No, Harry, you listen,” said Hermione. “We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago--years, really.” “But--” “Shut up,” Ron advised him. “--are you sure you’ve thought this through?” Harry persisted. “Let’s see,” said Hermione, slamming Travels with Trolls onto the discarded pile with a rather fierce look. “I’ve been packing for days, so we’re ready to leave at a moment’s notice, which for your information has included doing some pretty difficult magic, not to mention smuggling Mad-Eye’s whole stock of Polyjuice Potion right under Ron’s mum’s nose.” “I’ve also modified my parents’ memories so that they’re convinced they’re really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins, and that their life’s ambition is to move to Australia, which they have now done. That’s to make it more difficult for Voldemort to track them down and interrogate them about me--or you, because unfortunately, I’ve told them quite a bit about you. “Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lifted the enchantment. If I don’t--well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.” Hermione’s eyes were swimming with tears again. Ron got back off the bed, put his arm around her once more, and frowned at Harry as though reproaching him for lack of tact. Harry could not think of anything to say, not least because it was highly unusual for Ron to be teaching anyone else tact.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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Tears were sliding down from behind the half-moon spectacles into the long silver beard, and the pride and the gratitude emanating from him filled Harry with the same balm as phoenix song. At last, Harry held up his hands, and the portraits fell respectfully silent, beaming and mopping their eyes and waiting eagerly for him to speak. He directed his words at Dumbledore, however, and chose them with enormous care. Exhausted and bleary-eyed though he was, he must make one last effort, seeking one last piece of advice. “The thing that was hidden in the Snitch,” he began, “I dropped it in the forest. I don’t know exactly where, but I’m not going to go looking for it again. Do you agree?” “My dear boy, I do,” said Dumbledore, while his fellow pictures looked confused and curious. “A wise and courageous decision, but no less than I would have expected of you. Does anyone else know where it fell?” “No one,” said Harry, and Dumbledore nodded his satisfaction. “I’m going to keep Ignotus’s present, though,” said Harry, and Dumbledore beamed. “But of course, Harry, it is yours forever, until you pass it on!” “And then there’s this.” Harry held up the Elder Wand, and Ron and Hermione looked at it with a reverence that, even in his befuddled and sleep-deprived state, Harry did not like to see. “I don’t want it,” said Harry. “What?” said Ron loudly. “Are you mental?” “I know it’s powerful,” said Harry wearily. “But I was happier with mine. So…” He rummaged in the pouch hung around his neck, and pulled out the two halves of holly still just connected by the finest thread of phoenix feather. Hermione had said that they could not be repaired, that the damage was too severe. All he knew was that if this did not work, nothing would. He laid the broken wand upon the headmaster’s desk, touched it with the very tip of the Elder Wand, and said, “ Reparo. ” As his wand resealed, red sparks flew out of its end. Harry knew that he had succeeded. He picked up the holly and phoenix wand and felt a sudden warmth in his fingers, as though wand and hand were rejoicing at their reunion. “I’m putting the Elder Wand,” he told Dumbledore, who was watching him with enormous affection and admiration, “back where it came from. It can stay there. If I die a natural death like Ignotus, its power will be broken, won’t it? The previous master will never have been defeated. That’ll be the end of it.” Dumbledore nodded. They smiled at each other. “Are you sure?” said Ron. There was the faintest trace of longing in his voice as he looked at the Elder Wand. “I think Harry’s right,” said Hermione quietly. “That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J.K. 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