--- description: Cassidy Stay, the sole survivor of a shooting rampage that killed her parents and four siblings, quoted a line from the Harry Potter series at a memorial for her family on Saturday. title: 15-Year-Old Sole Shooting Survivor Quotes Harry Potter at Memorial image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt614de44e87f4a346/69869bac55a8597629a81c89/houston_1280.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 15-Year-Old Shooting Survivor Quotes _Harry Potter_ at Memorial for Her Family by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 14, 2014 5:51 PM CUT  CNN by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 14, 2014 5:51 PM CUT The [sole survivor of a shooting rampage](http://time.com/2979338/texas-shooting-memorial-harry-potter/ "undefined") that killed her parents and four siblings, quoted a line from the _Harry Potter_ series at a memorial for her family on Saturday. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,” Cassidy Stay said, citing Dumbledore’s advice in _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_, “if one only remembers to turn on the light.” More than 400 people attended the “celebration of life,” [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/texas-family-killings/texas-teen-who-witnessed-murder-her-family-speaks-memorial-n154311 "undefined") reports, which took place following Wednesday’s shooting in the Houston area. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2982273/cassidy-stay-harry-potter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2982273/cassidy-stay-harry-potter/"},"headline":"15-Year-Old Shooting Survivor Quotes Harry Potter at Memorial for Her Family","datePublished":"2014-07-14T17:51:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:08:13.842Z","description":"The teen says her family is \"in a much better place\" and that she \"will be able to see them again one day\"","url":"https://time.com/2982273/cassidy-stay-harry-potter/","keywords":["Crime","Death","Family","shooting","Harry Potter","JK Rowling","memorial"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt614de44e87f4a346/69869bac55a8597629a81c89/houston_1280.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt614de44e87f4a346/69869bac55a8597629a81c89/houston_1280.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cassidy Stay","caption":"","creditText":"CNN","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2982273/cassidy-stay-harry-potter/","name":"15-Year-Old Shooting Survivor Quotes Harry Potter at Memorial for Her Family"}}]}] ```