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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Harry Potter author reaches out to survivor of Spring family shooting


Cassidy Stay, center, the only survivor of the family massacre, leaves with other mourners after services for her parents and four siblings. Photo: Brett Coomer, Staff / © 2014 Houston Chronicle

Harry Potter author reaches out to survivor of Spring family shooting


Cassidy Stay, the lone survivor of a horrific shooting in Spring that left her parents and four siblings dead, made national news days after the incident when she appeared at a memorial held in their honor.

The 15-year-old girl, who was injured in the hand and head but survived by pretending to be dead, quoted a passage from the Harry Potter novels from which she had taken comfort.

"In The Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore says, 'Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light,'" she said in the ceremony, held in mid-July outside a school three of her younger brothers and sisters had attended.

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