Recently I got new glasses. After the first week of wearing them I realized their rounded shape gave less of a high fashion vibe than it did boy wizard. Since my purchase more and more people have begun to call me “Harry Potter.” Two waitresses (at two different restaurants), my dentist, a teacher and a police officer have all claimed I share a resemblance to “The Boy Who Lived.” I couldn’t be more flattered.

For me, the Harry Potter series are books that will never lose their luster. Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Hermione Granger and Harry himself all taught me valuable lessons, things I believe the students of LHS should remember.

There are three quotes, however, I think everybody should know.

(Even though it’s not a direct book quote,) Albus Dumbledore tells the students of Hogwarts in the movie The Prisoner of Azkaban, “Happiness can be found even in the darkest times if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

It may sound cliché, but in the grand roller coaster that is life we face many ups and downs. Recently, I found myself down, being sad without reason. I stayed in my rut for two days, moping of sorts. After telling a friend about my troubles she told me she’d devised a plan to help turn on the lights in my darkness.

We rode in separate cars- my only instructions were to follow behind her and park near her car. Our destination was an old, abandoned building. My friend led me to a fire escape and told me we would soon be on the roof. Before I could stop her she was halfway up the ladder yelling down to me, “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,” she said quoting the sacred vow belonging to the Marauder’s Map.

As I stared down on the city, I wondered how many people, were like me, sad but without reason, just in need of somebody to remind them to search for the light.

It was then that I remembered one more quote from Harry Potter, “Words are, in my not so humbled opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it,” Dumbledore said.

I realized then, being Editor-in-Chief was magic, the simple words I say to the old friends I see briefly in the hallways is magic. My “thank you” in the cafeteria is also magic. By using this magic, and even a little mischief we can pull people out of the dark.  I may just be a nerd, but I love my Harry Potter glasses.