He'll have that scar forever.""Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?""Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistaken.’‘Blood?’‘I said it was crude,’ said Dumbledore, who sounded disdainful, even disappointed, as though Voldemort had fallen short of the standards Dumbledore expected.

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!