And what ideas they were.

    And what ideas they were. Profoundly shocking though Albus Dumbledore’s
fans will find it, here are the thoughts of their seventeen-year-old hero, as
relayed to his new best friend. (A copy of the original letter may be seen on
page 463.)

      Gellert ---
           Your point about Wizard dominance being FOR THE MUGGLES’
      OWN GOOD --- this, I think, is the crucial point. Yes, we have been given
      power and yes, that power gives us the right to rule, but it also gives us
      responsibilities over the ruled. We must stress this point, it will be the
      foundation stone upon which we build. Where we are opposed, as we
      surely will be, this must be the basis of all our counterarguments. We seize
      control FOR THE GREATER GOOD. And from this it follows that where
      we meet resistance, we must use only the force that is necessary and no
      more. (This was your mistake at Durmstrang! But I do not complain,
      because if you had not been expelled, we would never have met.)
           Albus

    Astonished and appalled though his many admirers will be, this letter
constitutes the Statute of Secrecy and establishing Wizard rule over Muggles.
What a blow for those who have always portrayed Dumbledore as the Muggle-
borns’ greatest champion! How hollow those speeches promoting Muggle rights

seem in the light of this damning new evidence! How despicable does Albus
Dumbledore appear, busy plotting his rise to power when he should have been
mourning his mother and caring for his sister!