Chapter 223: Dumbledore: Heh, Overthinking It
McGonagall turned, walked a few paces, and looked back. "Albus, do you truly believe in him?"
Dumbledore considered the question. Then he asked one of his own. "Minerva, do you know what that child has been doing this past month?"
She shook her head.
"He's been trying to fuse his will into the fabric of Hogwarts's space," Dumbledore said. "Trying to make a protective intent become part of the space itself."
McGonagall froze. "He..."
"It didn't work," Dumbledore said. "But he tried. Many times."
"Minerva, do you know what that means?"
She said nothing.
"Manifesting one's will and imposing it on the external world. That isn't something ordinary wizards can do. Many go their entire lives without finding that door. He's knocking on it in his second year."