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Mrs. Weasley

In the Harry Potter series, Mrs. Weasley is the mother and matriarch of a large brood of redheads.  The Weasley family is not as well-off as some, which is a a source of considerable embarrassment to the children, who attend a private school where many students come from old money.  The Weasley children wear hand-me-down robes and buy [...]

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Dementors

Second in a series on the wisdom of Harry Potter…   In the Harry Potter series, the Dementors are wraith-like prison guards who control their prisoners by feeding on their positive emotions and memories, leaving them paralyzed by their worst memories and an absence of any joy or hope.  The Dementors have a similar deadening effect on all whom they [...]

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First in a series of ruminations on the wisdom of Harry Potter… Harry Potter fans are familiar with Professor Dumbledore’s magical Pensieve.  The Pensieve is a stone basin etched with runes and filled with a shimmering, viscous silver substance that turns out to be memories.  Dumbledore, the school Headmaster, can ”download” his thoughts for retrieval and examination at a later [...]

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