How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
All that remains is for me to warn anyone who has read this far without purchasing the book that it carries a Thief's Curse. I would like to take this opportunity to reassure Muggle purchasers that the amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and cannot hurt you. To wizards, I say merely: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. (3.6)
Poor Muggles. Always getting tricked by wizards. If any Muggle who buys this believes Dumbledore's lie, we've got a bridge in Brooklyn we'd like to sell them.
Quote #2
The International Confederation of Wizards argued the matter out at their famous summit meeting of 1692. No fewer than seven weeks of sometimes acrimonious discussion between wizards of all nationalities were devoted to the troublesome question of magical creatures. How many species would we be able to conceal from Muggle notice and which should they be? Where and how should we hide them? The debate raged on, some creatures oblivious to the fact that their destiny was being decided, others contributing to the debate. (5.7)
This is a lie born out of necessity. Muggles may be less powerful than wizards, but there are a whole lot more of them and they get dangerous when they get frightened. To protect the wizarding community, the non-magical community would have to be deceived. Is it wrong to lie if it saves people's lives?
Quote #3
Older British readers will remember the Ilfracombe Incident of 1932, when a rogue Welsh Green dragon swooped down upon a crowded beach full of sunbathing Muggles. Fatalities were mercifully prevented by the brave actions of a holidaying wizarding family (subsequently awarded Orders of Merlin, First Class), when they immediately performed the largest batch of Memory Charms this century on the inhabitants of Ilfracombe, thus narrowly averting catastrophe. (6.1)
Again, these Muggles were tricked into thinking that they hadn't just been attacked by a giant angry dragon. That's not the bad kind of lie, right? It's actually kind of a nice thing to do. We certainly wouldn't want to have those nightmares.