That’s actually an apt image for what it’s like to battle free from the darkness of being over-stressed. But without a magic wand, simply intoning “lumos solem” over and over doesn’t have much effect.

It might surprise you, but you can cast a couple of "Harry Potter" spells using your iPhone. The device has been hiding its magical abilities all this time. Remember the scene in the first movie, ...

A particularly powerful depiction of this point occurs in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Harry, Hermione and Ron dive blindly through a trapdoor in order to escape from Fluffy, the ...