Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man’s dream!

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.