HP therapy/Rosie O'Donnell

[Barb]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Mary Ann wrote, before being engulfed by Girl Guides:
> 
> > Also there was a story about how the HP books are being used in 
> > London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in therapy 
> > sessions with children with mental instabilities.   
 
> Does anyone have a link to a story, mentioned on the main list lo 
> these many months ago, about a therapist who used the ideas of a 
> Dementor and a Patronus to work with kids around their 
> depression?  Or it might have been Boggarts?  I was telling a 
> friend about it and she got very interested and wanted details.  I 
> can't find it in a search of the main list, but memory is so vague 
> that I'm using the wrong words.
> 
> It's possible that it wasn't even a story but just someone 
> relating a personal anecdote or one from someone they knew, but in 
> any case I'd love to track it down.  If it rings a bell, let me 
> know-

I posted something about my pastor doing a children's sermon about 
boggarts.  I don't know whether that's what you're remembering, but 
I have to say, it's something that interested me in HP almost a full 
year before I bought the books for my son (and then devoured them in 
secret while he was in school--I finished GoF when he was still in 
book one).  The children's sermon was great fun; she had the whole 
congregation shouting, "Riddikulus!"  The kids loved it too. ;)

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As far as Hagrid's mortality, I've never made it a secret that I 
think he has a HUGE target on him.  But the thing that really made 
me sad about your post, Bryce, is that I forgot to tape ANOTHER show 
I wanted to see about HP!  (I missed the Katie Couric thing, too.)  
Argh!

--Barb
(Who's very jealous of everyone who's seen the NBC show and the 
Rosie Show)