'magic' used in real life

[Sandra]

Hi,

I just wanted to share some experience of 
`things learned from HP' used in real life.

Last Saturday I had kind of a bad day, and it seemed that my life 
just was not going well or to be more precise that I did not have the 
nerve to face things and take good choices. 

Anyway, I remembered HP and the dementors, and than I tried 
an `Expecto Patronum'.

Gosh, what a difficult spell, if you are NOT rehearsing it in a nice 
class-room with all your friends around. But hey, in the end it did 
work, although I did not produce a corporal one, I have to admit, but 
that's for my next attempt. The crucial thing, and, as far as I
know, psychologist and therapists would agree, is the really happy
thought


And after that I remembered Lupin and Madam Pomfrey and thought some 
chocolate would be good after this effort.
It took a bit of imagination to turn the `Duplo' (a German
sweet, looking like a very long praline) into a chocolate frog, but 
there was no better option around (and the serotonine did what its 
said to do).

I guess other people have similar experiences and I would be very 
interested to hear of more `magic' in RL.

I for one, was once more really thankful to JKR and HP!

Sandra