I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.