And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.

Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box.The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.

There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwilling objects of a gruesome sort of reflected fame as they walked the corridors: Susan Bones, whose uncle, aunt, and cousins had all died at the hands of one of the ten, said miserably during Herbology that she now had a good idea what it felt like to be Harry."And I don't know how you stand it- it's horrible" she said bluntly.

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.

The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow."I've got to go back, haven't I?""That is up to you.""I've got a choice?""Oh yes." Dumbledore smiled at him. "We are in King's Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…let's say…board a train.""And where would it take me?""On," said Dumbledore simply.

Myrtle," Harry said slowly, "how am I supposed to breathe?"At this, Myrtle's eyes filled with sudden tears again."Tactless!" she muttered, groping in her robes for a handkerchief."What's tactless?" said Harry, bewildered."Talking about breathing in front of me!" she said shrilly, and her voice echoed loudly around the bathroom.

Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...