He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.