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“There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.”

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Book:Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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“Sagen wir, der Tarnumhang existiert... was ist mit dem Stein, Mr Lovegood? Dem Gegenstand, den Sie den Stein der Auferstehung nennen?' - 'Was soll damit sein?' - 'Nun, den kann es doch unmöglich geben?' - 'Beweisen Sie, dass es ihn nicht gibt', sagte Xenophilius. Hermine blickte empört. 'Aber das ist - Verzeihung, aber das ist vollkommen lächerlich! Wie kann ich denn jemals beweisen, dass er nicht existiert? Erwarten Sie, dass ich - dass ich sämtliche Kieselsteine der Welt einsammle und sie prüfe? Ich meine, man könnte von allem behaupten, dass es existiert, aus dem einzigen Grund, dass niemand bewiesen hat, dass es nicht existiert.' - 'Ja, das könnte man', sagte Xenophilius. 'Es freut mich zu sehen, dass Sie sich ein wenig aufgeschlossen haben.”

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“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

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“I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”

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“Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case you have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.”

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