I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.