Between the Whomping Willow's violent nature and the reputation of the Shrieking shack, Dumbledore expected students to stay away. However, when Severus Snape was baited by Sirius Black to enter this particular passageway, it nearly resulted in his death. James reached Snape before Lupin did, th...
Don’t assert or assume that devotion to Deity makes grief go away.(It can lighten the weight of mourning — it did/does for me! — but grief and love are connected. Let mourners mourn as they will, and let them also worship as they will — or won’t.) When a mourning friend ask...
Invitegrieving friends to join in your celebration or commemoration of the event. Tell them you’d like them with you for your sake (“I’d like your company”) as well as for their sakes (“Please join me so you won’t be alone”). If they decline (as I often did), assure them...
Please, no-name directors, leave stories like this to masters like Scorsese, who actually did something masterful with a similar plot in “Shutter Island.” For once, I’d like Hollywood to stop belittling the work of true artists by doing half-baked carbon copies that border on outright pl...