Simply to be alive to watch the sun rise over the sparkling snowy hillside ought to have been the greatest treasure on earth
“Power was my weakness and my temptation.”
“Would it hurt to die?”
“It was not, after all, so easy to die.”
“We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”
“Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
“Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!”
“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?”
“I am about to die.”
“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
“He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...”
“Until the very end”
“Grindelwald and I, the glorious young leaders of the revolution.”
“Yeah, because we really need a bit more fear in our lives”
“It was not, after all, so easy to die. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.”