6. The 101 of Anger Management
Anger Is a Primal Emotion
In a scene in the movie “Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix,” Ministry of Magic bureaucrat and professor Dolores Umbridge takes unkindly to Harry’s statement that students should learn how to make defensive spells so they can fight Lord Voldemort, who has returned to wreak havoc against all good witches and wizards. As punishment for his outspokenness and insubordination, Umbridge forces Harry to use a blood quill to repeatedly write, “I must not tell lies” on a piece of parchment. A blood quill, for those unfamiliar with this type of torture device, is a writing instrument that uses the writer’s blood as ink. The quill also cuts the written words into the nonwriting hand, effectively ...
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