“Eat the orange end of the Puking Pastilles, you throw up. The moment you’ve been rushed out of lesson for the hospital wing, you swallow the purple half which restores you to full fitness,enabling you to pursue the leisure activity of your own choice during an hour that would otherwise have been devoted to unprofitable boredom.”
This trip doesn’t end when you get back home. From now on, your job is to be a distraction until people forget what the real problems are.” Haymitch, telling it like it is.
Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
