Melisinka

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?“

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind…. At these times… I use the Pensieve.  One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure.”

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.  Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”