Dumbledore’s ability to turn a phrase

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Oct 092016
 

“I’ve always praised myself on my ability to turn a phrase. Words are in my not so humble opinion an inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both implicating injury and remedying it.”

Let me set the stage, Harry Potter has just been killed by Voldemort to kill the one of the two horcruxs (a piece of your soul implanted into an object or person when you murder someone, allowing you to essentially live forever) left. Harry is now in a limbo state where he has a conversation with the late Dumbledore who says ” Words are in my not so humble opinion an inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both implicating injury and remedying it.” Dumbledore’s original statement to Harry was “Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it” however rephrases it to say “Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who deserve it”. This is what I “read” for this week, after going on to Quara to read about why Dumbledore says things. The forum pretty much went to the extent that, if Harry, even though dead, has a choice of peace, knowing his return will save everyone, needed the encouragement of Dumbledore to go back. Harry knew what the cost was, but needed to know what more needed to be done. Dumbledore then ends by saying just because everything is happening in Harry’s head that doesn’t mean that it isn’t real. Without all of this taking place, Harry could have entered to death, departing the world as an equal to death, as it was told in the Deathly Hallows.