What does it mean?
Arguing with people you love can be as hard as fighting enemies. Dumbledore says this to praise a boy who tried to stop his friends from breaking the rules.
Key vocabulary
- stand up to
- refuse to accept bad behaviour from someone; resist
Who said it?
J. K. Rowling: British author of the Harry Potter books (born 1965). Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).