[I tried every means I could to get my hands on a Dementor. These things were rather dangerous. I could tell they wanted to devour my soul—certainly living up to the "soul-sucking" part of their name, but they had clearly picked the wrong opponent.]
[Whenever I approached them, I remembered my days studying under my teacher. It really did make me nostalgic.]
[These things are the product of a distortion of both soul and flesh. It seems that young fellow named Ekrizdis was not particularly skilled at Transfiguration, but he was certainly a very clever wizard. His dark magic simulated Soul Transfiguration to a certain extent.]
[I reopened my laboratory. To my pleasant surprise, the Muggle test subjects I had captured before had actually multiplied into an entire village. It seems I can go without experimenting for a while...]
Will curled his lip. Given how those ancient wizards behaved, the Muggles would have betrayed their own moral principles if they had not launched a witch-hunt. He turned a page and read on.
[I once said in "Heart of an Animagus" that wizards are noble, but also pitiable.
We can manipulate everything in this world, yet we must share wondrous magic with other beings—yes, I mean magical creatures: Thunderbirds that command storms and soar through the heavens; phoenixes whose tears become healing elixirs and which are reborn in fire; dragons that breathe flames and brim with magic...
Though the Animagus transformation is a masterpiece of Transfiguration, it cannot turn us into magical creatures. What a sorrowful thing that is.
Yet in those Dementors, I saw a glimmer of hope.]
[Years of research into souls made me realize something—a wizard's emotions affect magic far more than I had imagined. In the modern charms system, a wizard's emotions are an important component of