Memorable Passage

Excerpt from Fairy Tail Vol. 1, Chapter 2: The Master Appears

Makarov: "So you dolts have done it again!! Just look at all these letters from the Council!!"
Lucy(thoughts): The Council? Isn't that the body that manages all the wizard guilds?
Makarov: "First...Gray! It's good that you rounded up that ring of smugglers...but afterward you stumbled around town on the nude...and in the end you wound up stealing somebody's underwear right off the line and running away with it."
Gray: "But...I could't keep running around naked!"
Elfman: Maybe if you hadn't gotten naked in the first place?"
Makarov: "sigh. Elfman!! While performing bodyguard service for a VIP, you attacked that selfsame VIP!"
Elfman: "He made a crack about how 'a man is only worth as much as his education,' and before I knew it..."
Makarov: "Cana Alberona, you drank fifteen full kegs of liquor at a certain tavern, falsely claimed it as 'expenses,' and worse, sent the bill directly to the Council!"
Cana: "So they found out?"
Makarov: "Loke...you seduced the granddaughter of the senior Council member, Rage. Also, we've been sent an invoice for damages at a certain talent agency. And Natsu..." He slumps dejectedly. "In bringing down the Devon Bandit Clan, you destroyed seven private homes!! You brought down the Tuly Village's historic clock tower!! The town of Freesia's church is completely destroyed!! You damaged a section of the Lupinus Castle!! The observation station at the Nazuna Ravine is closed due to wanton destruction. And you leveled half the harbor at Hargeon!!"
Lucy(thoughts): So most of the stuff I read about in the magazine was Natsu's doing?!!
Makarov: "Alzack...Levy...Krov...Reedus...Warren...Bisca...etc...All of you...have done nothing but make the Council mad at me!! But...The Council can eat crap for all I care!! Listen! Ours is a power that goes beyond the bounds of reason. But is is born out of reason itself. Magic isn't some miracle. What we do is match the energy that flows between us...with the wavelength of the world's natural energy. And take what is embodied in that union...using our force of will and concentration. More than that, we pour our entire soul into it to make what we call magic. If you spend time worrying about what those in authority think of you, your magic will never advance! So don't let those idiots on the Council intimidate you!! Follow the path you truly believe in!!!! That is what it means to be a Fairy Tail wizard!!!!"

I like this speech by Makarov, guild master of the Fairy Tail guild, for a couple reasons. First, its kinda funny how he goes from being angry at his guild members for doing things that got the Council mad at him, to encouraging them to do it. Second, it really just shows what Fairy Tail is about, a bunch of people who despite their faults, arguments, and past can care for each other like a big family. And third, it nicely sums up my thoughts on magic from the Harry Potter universe and makes me think it would be something Dumbledore might say. Although he would probably put things in much politer terms.