Harry Potter and the four eggs

 It was a movie marathon of Harry Potter series. I was and am deeply impressed by the extreme imaginative power and creativity of the great J K Rowling. So many characters, beautiful plots, plot twists, realistic character development and best of all, the ',MAGIC''. I was engrossed in the enchanting story all throughout that week, some funny names like Mundungus Fletcher and Seamus Finnigan had caught up as earworms, I was silently blabbering some charms in my dreams and was totally lost in the mesmerizing world of magic. Outwardly, as of my physical being, I was cooking breakfast when my thoughts were interrupted by my husband who came to cut pineapple in the kitchen. He casually told me that one of his friends' had suggested that four eggs per day must be too much for our golden retriever- pea-brain Georgie. 

True, mind is the fastest in the universe. Mine is no exception. The matter of ''Four eggs for Georgie' has been discussed several times. I vouched for it for the simple logic that his vet had asked us to feed him four eggs as he was a hairy beast and his hair consumed all the protein. Everyone else in our house was reluctant to feed four eggs per day to him for each one's own reason. I wouldn't normally want to argue on such matters. I would brush it off as, '"It's fine. Georgie's life doesn't depend on four eggs". But the question here was not of four eggs; it was rather, why must I always have to give up my opinion when it is based on plain logic. Why must I always fight for what I want even when it is no one else's business. Why must I fight my way to keep the Raghavendra Swamy photo in the kitchen? Why must I have to argue with others to throw the trash, to donate my old clothes, to let me do my work on my own? Such thoughts are stored just behind the main door of my mind. A slight stimulation and they all come out like, DEMENTORS. Yes, that's how J K Rowling must have got her idea of dementors. She has openly agreed to it. Her psychiatrist must have suggested her to think of something good to ward off such thoughts. That's when she has made up the PATRONUS CHARM. What could be my patronus charm? I sort of require to be left alone to myself at such times. I don't want anyone, especially you-know-who to talk to me then. What if I had a ROOM OF REQUIREMENT in my kitchen? I could just slip into it and find what? A laptop to type away my thoughts may be. But I have always felt deficient in penning down everything I think. Only 10-20% of my ideas materialize into words. I know what I need. A scribbling pad of Reeta Skeeter. No, it scribbles only what it hears. I want something that directly transcribes my thoughts into words. J K Rowling must invent a new such spell. Or what if I had an INVISIBILITY CLOAK? I would work under the cloak when I wanted no one to notice me. Or a self cooking and cleaning house of Molly Weasley would be even better. 

As I was thinking of all these, I realised that something was not right around me. As if I was having a premonition. It struck to me that I had not switched on the kitchen light today. Albus Dumbledore whispered in my ears, "But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to switch on the light." The light definitely made me feel better. LUMOS MAXIMA