“especially those of us who use magic on a regular basis, have to work the wards." "So hes basically blocking members of the Authority?" "Hounds use magic every day. Doctors, teachers." "Point taken. Good to know she's safe from evil magic-using teachers.”

“We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”

“Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.”

“I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”

“She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.”

“Fifty years after Brown, we should have learned that there is no magic in white classmates. The magic lies at the intersection of educational opportunity and attitude—the coming together of teachers who know how to teach and children who are ready to learn. No one thing—not the ballot, not changes in school governance, not desegregation—will produce that happy confluence. We have to demand that the schools get ready for our children. But we also have to make sure, using every resource at our disposal, that our children are ready for school.”