LFPF Chapter 8

''“There’s a very fine line between disappointment and surprise. Surprise implies you expected things to go otherwise, and they didn’t. For instance, I was disappointed in Fudge when he sent Sirius to  Azkaban without a trial, but I was not the least bit surprised. I knew before I opened my mouth that he wouldn’t listen. Fudge knew, as I did, that if Sirius ever got his day in court, he’d be found not guilty, and we just couldn’t have that, could we? Not when the public and the Wizengamot both demanded blood. For all our magic, it seems we are no better than Muggles in this regard. That, my dear Sebastian, is the very soul of disappointment.”''

-Sherrod Howe