“Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.”
“It was like a curse. He was her antidote. She was his poison.”
“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
“Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.”
“Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.”