“Time is making fools of us again.”

“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.-Albus Dumbledore”

“You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?”

“Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.”

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

“I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.”

“I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?”