“Your trouble in this instance, I think, comes from the fact that you are mature beyond your years. This is why it is best to learn about boggarts when you are still young. Most people your age think only of themselves when they face a boggart, but you are already beginning to fear for others, and those are always the hardest fears to banish.” She seemed to be speaking more to herself than to Molly when she added, “Selfishness is a kind of innocence. Perhaps it is well not to lose it too early, for one never gets it back, but do not forget that it is still worse to lose it too late.”
but she was a very old lady, more than a hundred, and she had never had any children of her own (Molly thought that must be very terrible), and she didn’t seem...
“What difference does it make,” Molly said, still sobbing a little, “if the thing you’re afraid of is real or not?”only reminded her of how very fragile a thing happiness was.
“It means he hasn’t got anything to give him strength,” he said. “Believe me. Love is the first thing they take from you in Azkaban, because without it you have no will to fight.”
Her family didn’t do that; they raged and stormed and wept and forgave in the space of an hour, and then picked up just as they had been before – or, in much rarer cases, stayed angry for good.