What Dumbledore said to Harry Potter

The old wise guy who peers at you out of his half moon shaped spectacles; that is Albus Dumbledore for you. Albus Dumbledore, who knows all the big things and big people too, and yet cares for all the small things in life. He is the greatest sorcerer of his time ( in the Harry Potter world ofcourse), but he believes more in people than in magic. The man whose eyes would twinkle not with just how much he knows but with how much he understands. He is the one person to have faith on; the one person, people can turn to when in trouble. And he never disappoints. And everything he does, he does in style! No one can forget the style with which he disappeared right under the eye of the ministry when they came to arrest him. If he were on facebook, that event alone would have earned him a million more fans.

Yes, I am a big fan of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore ( I had to google his full name!) and I love him more because he said some of the wisest things to Harry Potter in the most sweetest way possible. Here are some of my favourite Dumbledore quotes: 

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

( Reminds me of what Descartes said," I think, therefore I am". And isn't it so for all of us? Its the same world we all live in - some of us find it beautiful, some of us find it to be a horrible place. We all live in the world we have created in our head.)

“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

(When I read this quote, the theme song of Pretty Little Liar starts ringing in my head nowadays:

Got a secret

Can you keep it?

Swear this one you'll save...

'Cause two can keep a secret

If one of them is dead? )

“It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..."

"I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.”

(Faith grows with love. As long as we love a person, we will have faith in him/her. And as long as we are with that person, we are never scared.)

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

( This holds true even in our un-magic world. Words make us happy; words make us sad. Sometime even simple words like morning greetings can brighten up our world a hundredfold and sometime a hell is created  because of absence of words between two people. Words are magic. As the song says,"words are all I have, to take your heart away!.")

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

( We often know what is the right thing to do; but when it comes to making a choice, we make a slip and end up doing the easier thing instead. In this, sometime I have failed horribly but as they say, practice makes a man perfect. So, I will keep on trying and see, if practice can make a woman perfect too! :)  )

“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

( A hug from a friend won't make our trouble disappear. But it helps us in finding solace during troubled times. Ice-creams do not cure heart-breaks; but they help us stride through difficult times. My favourite music may not console you during your hard times, but you will have your own favourite poetry or may be a movie, which will help you pass the night. We are different; some of us might turn to a person for courage and happiness, some of us might look up to God and some of us might go to the neighbourhood store for more chocolates - but all of us have in us the ability to turn on the light; and that we must!)

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

( Yes, its bad to lie. But may be sometime, we should know just to keep our mouth shut and not utter a word. The trick is to know when to talk and when to seal it up. )

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

( In fact, its so much easier to stand up to our "enemies". Anyways, we don't like them. But its in standing up to our friends that we need courage - what if the friend chooses to never talk to me again? what if he is too hurt by my words? what if she misunderstands me? 

I have been hurt more by what my best friend has said to me than by anyone else. Yet, I know those words have been said because only a close friend can see my faults so well and only such a friend will use cruel words, if necessary, to make me a better person. And those are the words which have later actually made my path easier. But yes, sometime it needs a lot of courage to stand up to our friends. And we all should know when to stand up to our friends.)

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

( I love this quote because it always makes me think. We need money to be happy - not may be loads and loads of money ( but if the money is coming, then why not!).  We need money to buy food and books and medicines - money cannot buy happiness, but in today's world, there can be no happiness without some amount of money in the pocket. And that is why this quote makes me think a lot. May be, if all us stop going after money at the same time - we won't need it any more and then the world will become a happy place!)

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

( Because in doing so, you have to let go off your ego. And its easier said than done!)

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin.

( How much can we understand love? Love is too simple, too pure. And may be we live in too complicated a world to actually understand love. We can only choose to love and maybe, in loving, we will understand it. May be.)

I am a Dumbledore fan. Even when he says odd words like "nitwit blubber oddment tweak" (yes, he said them once!) I find joy in them. And I hope that you too enjoyed reading some of his quotes.