Albus' Quotes that Make Sense Now:

From Philosopher's Stone:

To Minerva McGonagall: "Famous before he can walk and talk! Famous for something he won't even remember! Can't you see how much better off he'll be, growing up away from all that until he's ready to take it?" (PS1)

To Harry: "It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live, rememeber that." (PS12)

"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." (PS17)

"The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution." (PS 17)

From Chamber of Secrets:

To Harry: "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." (CoS18)

From Prisoner of Azkaban:

To Harry: "You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You don't think we recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night." (PoA22)

From Goblet of Fire:

Dumbledore looked very intensely at Harry for a moment, and then said, "I have a theory, no more than that ...It is my belief that your scar hurts both when Lord Voldemort is near you, and when he is feeling a particularly strong surge of hatred."

"But ... why?"

"Because you and he are connected by the curse that failed," said Dumbledore. "That is no ordinary scar." (GoF 30)


"What made you think he'd really stopped supporting Voldemort, Professor?"

Dumbledore held Harry's gaze for a few seconds, and then said, "That, Harry, is a matter between Professor Snape and myself." (GoF30)

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he peered down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye Moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat. (GoF35)

When Harry told of Wormtail piercing his arm with the dagger, however, Sirius let out a vehement exclamation and Dumbledore stood up so quickly he that Harry started. Dumbledore walked around the desk and told Harry to stretch out his arm. Harry showed them both the place where his robes were torn and the cut beneath them. "He said my blood would make him stronger than if he'd used someone else's." Harry told Dumbledore. "He said the protection my --my mother left in me --he'd have it too. And he was right --he could touch me without hurting himself. He touched my face."

For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes. (GoF36)

To Cornelius Fudge: "You are blinded," said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, "by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be!" (GoF36)

"It is my belief -- and never have I so hoped that I am mistaken -- that we are all facing dark and difficult times. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory." (GoF37)