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...SPELL: Tarantallegra. Causes uncontrollable dancing in its victims...
...SPELL: The Patronus charm. It creates a silver spirit that dispels dementors...
...SPELL: Wingardium Leviosa. Your basic first-year levitation charm...
...bridge for kids to cross from her magical world to their own, built out of rules and constraints that both share. The very existence of Hogwarts School, the training academy for young wizards, is a testament to the reality that learning still takes time and patience. There's no spell that fills one's head with knowledge; the best Hermione can manage in Book 3 is the Time Turner, to give her more hours to study. The Weasleys, Ron's family, are still poor--and any world in which a family as hardworking, loving and generous as theirs still struggles...
...Kids might get a kick out of living Swiss Family Robinson-style for a spell, but in Renudih it's hardly a lark. Over the past three years 27 people have been killed by stampeding elephants, and several women have been forced to give birth in the treetops, without medical care. Villagers are only free to come down from the trees during the daytime, when the elephant attacks cease. Officials say hundreds of other forest villages in the region are also regularly trampled by irate pachyderms. "When I visit [the villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn...