Movie Quotes for Albus Dumbledore

Draco, please let me help you!

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No, the fault is mine. I knew it was only a matter of time before Voldemort made the connection between you. I thought by distancing myself from you, as I have done all year, he’d be less tempted and therefore you might be more protected.

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Well, perhaps they’re right.

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Whether it has or it hasn’t is irrelevant; you gave me your word.

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Confused? I’d be surprised if you weren’t.

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No, I’m a professor.

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Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric…Brian…Dumbledore.

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Well, I’m like you, Tom. I’m different.

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Horace, do you mind if I take this? I do love knitting patterns.

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Don’t fight him Harry, you can’t win!

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Professor McGonagall, might I ask you to escort Sybil back inside?

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Hogwarts is not a place for mad people. Hogwarts is a school. A school of magic. You can do things can’t you, Tom? That other children can’t.

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How do you do, Tom?

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This is beyond anything I have imagined.

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Oh, to be young and to feel love’s keen sting.

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Ah, Harry…you need a shave, my friend.

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I suspect he’s ashamed of it.

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You have the right to dismiss my teachers. You do not, however, have the authority to banish them from the grounds. That power remains with the headmaster.

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But in the end, their greatest weapon…is you.

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You must be wondering why I brought you here.

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Harry…It’s not how you are alike. It’s how you are not…

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Cornelius, I implore you to see reason. The evidence that the Dark Lord has returned is incontrovertible.

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This memory is everything. Without it, we are blind. Without it, we leave the fate of our world to chance. You have no choice. You must not fail.

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Are you and her…?

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Indeed. Quite successfully, I might add. Most people vomit their first time.

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This is perhaps the most important memory I’ve collected. It is also a lie. This memory has been tampered with by the same person whose memory it is, our old friend, Professor Slughorn.

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Thievery is not tolerated at Hogwarts, Tom. At Hogwarts you will be taught not only how to use magic, but how to control it. Do you understand me?

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Did I know that I just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No.

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Good evening, Bellatrix. I think introductions are in order.

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For the same reason you tried to save Sirius. For the same reason your friends saved you. After all these years, after all you’ve suffered, I didn’t want to cause you any more pain. I cared too much about you.

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I must have missed it; but by a happy mistake, I arrived at the Ministry three hours early.

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I know how you feel, Harry.

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Well, being me…has its privileges.

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Ah, I thought we might hit this little snag. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am going to – what is the phrase? – come quietly.

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Why, indeed? I asked you to get to know Professor Slughorn, and you have done so. Now I want you to persuade him to divulge his true memory any way you can.

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I think there’s something in the wardrobe trying to get out, Tom.

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Every day, every hour, this very minute, perhaps, dark forces attempt to penetrate this castle’s walls.

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It was foolish of you to come here tonight, Tom. The Aurors are on their way.

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I must say, Horace, you make a very convincing armchair.

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