My life as witch a

The modern Molly Weasley who is using chat-brooms to work magic

- MATTHEW BARBOUR

At the age of four, while her little pals were runnin gab out, laughing and giggling, Emma Griffin remembers “playing with dead people”.

Another childhood memory is of Sunday afternoons, when other mums and dads were out for a stroll after lunch and her parents, Pat and Pip, would be holding a seance to commune with the other side.

Emma, 48, now a fulltime witch, says: “It seemed normal for me to see – and play with – dead people from the age of just four.

“My first time was at Hampton Court, but ever since then, it’s happened regularly. My younger brother Ben and I knew our parents were different, but then, aren’t everyone’s?”

She says she inherited her mum’s magical powers and “came out of the closet – the broom closet” after her parents died from cancer in 2019 and 2020.

She is now a full-time witch, charging £100 for a “one-to-one guidance medicine reading”. She says: “I’m the real-life Molly Weasley. Everyone calls me that.”