A seven-year-old girl whose sight has been ravaged by an inoperable brain tumour now sees her parents "as Dementors from Harry Potter".

To Eleanor Stollery, her mum and dad, Kelly and Tim, look like "something out of a horror film" with black holes for eyes and slits for mouths.

Their bodies appear like moving shadows and having lost her sight so young, she sadly no longer remembers their features.

But despite being plunged into a frightening world dreamt up by the likes of J.K.Rowling, the happy schoolgirl is an inspiration to other sick children with her incredible outlook on life.

"I get on fine," chirps Eleanor, a big fan of the fantasy series. "The only problem is when I accidentally bang into doors."

Eleanor refuses to let anything hold her back (
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Eleanor had a brilliant time at Harry Potter World (
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The brave schoolgirl, from Hampton, London, lost her sight in 2015 age four after being diagnosed with an inoperable cancerous brain tumour known as a Hypothalamic Low-Grade Glioma.

Eleanor quickly underwent an 18-month regime of extensive chemotherapy, but sadly her eyesight was ravaged.

Earlier this year, the Stollery family received a second blow when an MRI scan showed both a small growth of the large inoperable tumour, and a second, smaller tumour in a different location.

The new lesion is currently growing at a rate of 1mm a month and the seven-year-old is now undergoing further chemotherapy.

Eleanor has fought since she was very young (
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Dementors might be frightening to some - but not this little girl (
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But despite her disability and ongoing treatment, Eleanor is a normal little girl.

"I'm biased but she is infectious," dad Tim says. "She is a little comedian and makes us laugh every day.

"We try to treat her as normally as possible - we don't put her on a pedestal because we don't want her to end up being an entitled child.

"She's wise beyond her years and such a positive spirit.

"She goes to a mainstream school and loves to listen to audio books.

"We think she maybe gets a little bit anxious when something new is about to begin but mainly, Eleanor just cracks on."

Eleanor is a big Harry Potter fan (
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The lively seven-year-old is now officially registered as "severely sight impaired (blind)" as the cables that connect her eyes to the back of her brain are damaged beyond repair.

Unless medical science catches up, she will never regain her eyesight.

Dad Tim says: "It is very difficult to explain what Eleanor can see.

"She sees light and dark, she sees huge objects but no detail, she sees changes in floor coverings if they go from light to dark or visa versa.

"But she can't really interpret colour or follow objects. Some days Eleanor seems to see better than others, but what she might see is so limited it is of no use to her in day to day life.

"She says she can see our pupils against the white eyeball but the rest of the face is dark.

"It sounds like something out of a horror film, like a Death Eater or a Dementor from Harry Potter.

"That's her reality and although we would be scared of it, she isn't."

Eleanor loves to sing, draw and learn languages (
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Eleanor will not regain her sight unless medical science catches up (
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As for Eleanor, she only encounters one obstacle at school.

Eleanor says: "People ask me how I do it but the only problem if someone leaves a cupboard door open and I bang into it.

"The cupboard doors at my school are white and whatever is behind it is white too so I can't see it's there at all.

"I can see very big shapes but not when they are the same colour next to each other and if I haven't seen it before then I don't know what it is.

"I can see the shapes on their [my parents'] faces and they have a line for their mouth and black dots for their eyes.

"If I get really close up I can just about tell the colour of their eyes."

Most importantly, nothing stops Eleanor from having fun and feeding her curious mind.

"I can read braille and I love art and maths," she tells Mirror Online.

"Sometimes I get a bit of paper at home and make up equations. I solve them all myself.

"And my best friend at school is Romily because she's fun. When I say something really funny we both have a real laugh about it."

Death Eaters are another frightening group of characters in Harry Potter (
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Eleanor's deep love of Harry Potter might be why she is unfazed by her "dementor" parents.

"I really love Harry Potter and my favourite character is Ron because he's so funny," she says.

"I've listened to both of the audio book collections [one is narrated by Stephen Fry and the other by Jim Dale] and watched all of films with audio description over and over.

"I also went to both parts of the Cursed Child with audio description at the theatre. It was amazing.

"When I was there, in the middle of it, I couldn't believe it was happening and it felt like it was going to go on forever but now it feels like it went really quick and at the end I wanted to do it all over again.

"Before the show started I got to do a touch tour where you feel some of the objects and the characters. It's really exciting. Hagrid held me up in the arena."

Carefree and laughing, Eleanor jokes: "I will like Harry Potter until I'm 500-years-old. I might have a portrait of Harry Potter put in my grave when I die."

Eleanor is now undergoing a long journey of chemotherapy and other treatments for possibly well into her teenage years.

Her type of tumour will never go away unless a cure is found.

Along with Eleanor's mum Kelly Gurney and a huge team of supporters, Tim wants to raise awareness of the early symptoms of a brain tumour.

If not for the family's persistence early on, Eleanor's could have been missed.

Eleanor is very bright and likes maths at art at school (
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"We want to raise more awareness around these conditions because early diagnosis is key to other children having more of a positive outcome - if diagnosed - from their inevitable treatments," Tim says.

"Among many websites, the one that comes close to helping parents with early diagnosis is HeadSmart UK.

"The trouble is, until recently, they did not list poor vision as being one of the possible signs for under fives.

"After almost two years of campaigning, Headsmart UK finally buckled and changed their symptom guide to include 'suspected' vision loss in the under five age category and vision loss in the five-11 age category.

"It is still not as easy to find as we'd like it to be but we will keep campaigning and trying to raise awareness ourselves."

Tim adds: "If the chemotherapy and other treatments work well for Eleanor we are hoping she comes out of this with nothing more than being blind, because that is what this nasty tumour has done to her.

"Most of all we don't want anyone else to have to wait around to get the right help.

"Eleanor loves music, she also loves listening to books and is keen to learn new languages, as well as her own.

"The future will hopefully still hold many opportunities for Eleanor even if she does not have the gift of sight anymore."

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