"Though few truly wanted Voldemort to win, Harry, even fewer had the courage to stand against him. James and Lily Potter, your parents, were among them. Your father was a tremendous duelist, tricky and creative with preternatural reflexes, and your mother was one of the most powerful witches I'd ever met, and matched it with an amazing repertoire of magic; she had been the sort of student Hogwarts sees only once in a generation. Together, they were a force to be reckoned with. They even dueled Voldemort himself three times and survived, a record only I have exceeded.