
These are dark times, there is no denying.
“I sent you? From the future?” “Yeah.” “Piss off.”
There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There’s a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth… Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy… So simple… And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to “stay in the sun.” You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra’s al Ghul’s destiny… We will destroy Gotham and then, when it is done and Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die

“Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
Believing in even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing.