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Continuing our Harry Potter theme, let’s explore how to deal with dementors in your life.   Recall that dementors are big, ugly, wraith-like creatures that feed on and suck all the happiness out of you. And, if they’re feeling really feisty, they’ll give you a kiss that sucks your soul right out of you. (Yikes!)    Also recall that there’s a special way to deal with these foul creatures. It’s called the Patronus Charm.    Here’s how Professor Lupin describes it to Harry in The Prisoner of Azkaban: “The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon — hope, happiness, the desire to survive — but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can’t hurt it. But I must warn you, Harry, that the charm might be too advanced for you. Many qualified wizards have difficulty with it.”   Harry wonders what the Patronus looks like and Lupin tells him that “each one is unique to the wizard who conjures it.”   How do you conjure it? Well,