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- What sort of profession in the wizarding world would you choose and why?
I would choose to be either an auror or a professor at Hogwarts. Auror, because I love to help people, and possess a lot of qualities needed for the profession. And for a professor, I'd like to teach Charms, DaDA, or Transfiguration, because I love to teach people new things, and see the reactions they have once they learn something.
- You have to venture deep into the Forbidden Forest one night. Pick one Harry Potter character other than Hagrid and one object (muggle or magical), besides your wand, that you'd want with you.
I would obviously take Harry Potter, because with his strength, and my intelligence, we'd knock them down faster than you can say "quidditch." Also, I'd take a bow and arrow, probably.
- If you had the opportunity to live forever, but your family and friends did not, what would you choose? And if you did choose to live forever, what would you do with eternity?
I would choose to not live forever, because I would eventually want to go to Heaven and see my family again.
- If you could travel back in time to one point, when and where would you go? Why?
If I could travel back in time I would go back to the Renaissance era, because I love all things mystical/magical, and this era seems to contain the most of it.
- What HP character do you identify with most and why?
I identify the most with Hermione Granger, even though I am a straight guy. She sometimes has a hard time expressing herself, and seems to do better putting her ideas on paper rather than in front of her peers, much like myself.
- What would you see if you looked into the Mirror of Erised?
Looking into the Mirror of Erised I would probably see all of my family whom I have known and loved, alive or deceased, and all of my friends together. Oh, and my pets of course.
- Do you believe that moral actions should be judged by the intentions behind them, or by the consequences they create?
Definitely a mixture of both. If there were no consequences to actions, no one would learn from them. But on the other hand, the intention to do something horrible is just as bad as doing it again without knowing what you're doing.
- What was your ideal job as a kid? Has that changed? What is your ideal job now?
My ideal job as a child was an actor, because I loved to entertain people. Now, it is a journalist, because I love writing and I love interviewing people and publishing good work, and being able to see other's reactions, good or bad, while reading it.
- If you were able to invent one spell, potion, or charm, what would it do, what would you use it for or how would you use it, and what would you call it?
I would create a potion that would allow one wish to the person who drinks it. It would probably be called "Wishful Drinking."
- If you were to face a boggart, what would it turn into? And what does it turn into when you throw the counter-spell, Riddikulus?
A boggart for me would turn into a snake. I am deathly terrified of them, because they are so sneaky, slimy, and overall just a gross reptile. It would turn into a hose when I cast Riddikulus.
- What do you look for in a friend?
I look for a few qualities in a friend. The first is loyalty and trustworthiness. The second is having a good personality. I don't want a friend that's really bland, and who just follows me around like a lost puppy. I want a friend that participates in the relationship just as much as I do.
- What trait most annoys you about other people?
Lying. Liars are quite possibly the most annoying people in the universe. I hate not being able to trust someone, and not being able to tell whether someone is giving me the truth sometimes.
- What do you think are your top five abilities or qualities?
Love - I love all of my family members, best friends, and pets with as much love as I can muster. I love hanging out with them, and I would do almost anything for them. - Humor - I think I have a good sense of humor, and am not dry and... boring, for lack of better terms.
- Intelligence - I am quick-witted and am easily able to solve most problems that are thrown at me.
- Easy-going - I am not at all bitchy, nor am I flakey. I'll do whatever my friends want me to do with them as long as it's reasonable, as long as they do the same in return.
- Down-to-earth - I have my feet standing solid on the ground, and am not "In over my head." I take pride in my accomplishments, but I also do not flaunt them around.
- What do you think are your top five weaknesses or worst qualities?
Addiction - I get addicted to things too easily. Not like drugs or alcohol or anything. I get addicted to fandoms and obsess over them, and I also get addicted to other things, like soda, which I'm trying to cut out, or certain types of food. - Stubborness - I can often be stubborn, and throw my ideas at people with a little too much force, and not listen to other people's.
- Persuasiveness. I can very easily persuade people to do things for me, which can either be a good or bad thing,
- Stick-to-itivness - I usually don't stop 'til I get a task done, which can be annoying to others, especially if I place that priority above them.
- Motivation - I am often too motivated, and usually don't take time for myself, which can be unhealthy for me.
- Define in your own words the following key traits:
- Courage:
Courage is being able to face your fears, and being able to put other's lives above your own.
- Loyalty:
Loyalty is being able to keep other's secrets, and not betraying them, no matter what they have done. Being loyal to one's self is just as important, making sure your beliefs, ideas, and customs do not leave you. -
- Intelligence:
Intelligence can be defined in a few different ways. One is being able to retain things you learn, and also being able to keep them with you. Common sense is another derivitive of intelligence. Unless you want to make a fool of yourself, you must be able to know right from wrong, and be able to determine good from bad.
- Ambition:
Ambition is setting goals for yourself and reaching them. Determination is also associated with ambition, because you need to strive to do your best in order to actually do your best.
- Name:
Daniel -
- Age:
14
- Where did you find out about us?
A friend
- Do you plan on being active in the communities once you are sorted?
Yes!
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[Monday
July 13th, 2009 at 6:04pm] |
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( Sort Me! ) Sorry for the horrible coding, everyone. I clicked HTML but it didn't convert the coding, so I switched it over manually. Apologies!
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| New Members! |
[Monday
July 20th, 2009 at 2:03pm] |
We, the members of Hogwarts is Home, would like to welcome with open arms the following 12 students to our ranks:
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chidorita
iamdestruction
mellonnya
love_n_lost
schweetinsanity
mandyloo
ice_heart
jam21
redwingprincess
trialbyfire99
foxypope
godrevypoint
Now that you've been sorted, here's an easy step-by-step process on what to do next:
1.) Accept your ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) hogwartsishome invitations here.
2.) Join your common room! (Gryffindor: gryff_lions; Hufflepuff: the_puff_house; Ravenclaw: ravenclaw_house; Slytherin: cunningfolk)
3.) Make an introduction post in your common room! All common rooms have an introduction form for you to fill out in their user info.
4.) Join Hogwarts is Home subsidiaries! I've left a list of all of our sub communities for you in your official sorting comment at the end of your platform_934 application, but your prefects should be able to give you more information once you post your introductions. (:
5.) Come back to platform_934 to VOTE! Before you do, PLEASE read our sorting rules here (just beneath the textbox that holds the sorting application), and here (under the header "For those sorting."). Not following procedure may result in not receiving points for your house; please be careful! (:
6.) Just a final note- all moderators are here to help you, so if you feel overwhelmed or have questions, ask around! We're happy to lend a hand. (:
For our old members:
All I have to say is... this next week is going to be insane. So be ready. LOL.
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| 25 Lord Of The Rings Icons + Requests |
[Monday
July 20th, 2009 at 4:50pm] |
25 Lord of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring textless icons.
2 Icon Requests: Doctor Who and Law & Order UK (2 icons) and Halle Berry (4 icons).
Samples:
  
MORE ICONS @ freakneverdie
Comment if you take, credit, don't hotlink, not bases ...
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| Enjoy Mondays! |
[Monday
July 20th, 2009 at 4:46am] |
7 @ Shambhala on Sunday
People at the mountain center, others at Jean-Marc's watching the broadcast. It's strange having more room to perform walking meditation yet the one in front of me walks slow as normal and I have to slow down.
Did all 4 workouts yesterday. The above was mind, went to the gym and did weights, cardio, and stretching.
I guess I'm set for a few days.
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[Monday
July 20th, 2009 at 12:30am] |
Hello movie buffs, I have a question about a movie that I can't seem to get the name of. I saw it a long time ago, let's say roughly 2000-2006, around that time frame. It's a movie about these two brothers that are trying to survive in general I think, and then they get involved with like drug dealing and having to run from those people they got themselves in trouble with. I think the older brother is trying to protect his younger one, the older one is the one that gets himself in that mess (or vice versa..)? At the end of it all he kills the guys involved with the drugs I think.. and the end shows him and the brother riding a motorcycle escaping the city...? I know this description is super vague, but I'm trying so hard to remember what movie this was.
It was also a foreign film, I am not sure if it was in French or what, but it needed to be subbed. I am leaning towards a European language.
Also, it is not City of God. It had a very simple and short title. Agh! It's bothering me so much. Please help any way you can. Throw out titles! Anything! Then I'll review the comments to see who nails the answer to my question if applicable. Thanksss so much.
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[Sunday
July 19th, 2009 at 9:16pm] |
Ugly Betty (31)
Heroes (22)
Boy Meets World (13)
Stand By Me (14)
Grey's Anatomy (13)
The Office (49)
LOTR (61)
Michael Jackson (7)
Bleach (31) (+ 3 banners)
D. Gray-Man (10)
Macross Frontier (10)
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[Sunday
July 19th, 2009 at 8:35pm] |
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July 19th, 2009 at 4:17pm] |
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Title: A Hogwarts Christmas Carol.
Author: MrsCake_akaJane
Rating: PG
Pairing: Lupin/Snape
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: I claim no rights to the characters, just the situations in which I'm placing them.
Summary: The first Christmas after the war. Snape is his usual bastard self, but the powers that be decide that it must stop now. They will use every power they can to make the dour man see sense. What will Snape see through the eyes of the spirits?
( A Hogwarts Christmas Carol Chapter Five )
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| movie review |
[Sunday
July 19th, 2009 at 10:43am] |
(No, not THAT movie.)
I just finished watching a film that's about ten years old, Trembling Before G-d. It's an independent documentary film about the lives and struggles of gay and lesbian Orthodox and Hasidic Jews -- not a large-budget production, which possibly explains why they couldn't afford the extra vowel.
I found myself wondering if the film would be any different if it had been made today and not ten years ago. Have any of the cultural shifts and progress trickled through to the Orthodox and Hasidic communities when it comes to dealing with their gay sons and daughters and nephews and nieces and grandchildren and congregants? As the non-Orthodox Jewish community becomes more accepting, and as society at large becomes more matter-of-fact about gayness, does this have any effect on the Orthodox and Hasidic community, or has that simply strengthened their intransigence? I'd be curious to know more.
Also, there was one part where I had to fast forward in distaste. One of the most interesting individuals the film followed was a middle-aged Orthodox gay man who, in his youth, had gone through all sorts of (painfully literal) contortions in order to "change," to not be gay any longer. He had gone through interminable counseling, humiliating aversive rituals -- all sorts of really damaging stuff. But he seemed, in many ways, the film's most appealing, balanced, and articulate individual. Anyway, they had him fly back to meet with the rabbi that he first came out to as a young man, and who had first counseled him to seek therapy and a "cure." And all the while, he's talking about how kind this rabbi is, how gentle and understanding, how he's got sweet eyes, and when we meet him, you can really see it, too -- here is a gentle and kind older man. So I was appalled at the impulse to stand there with a camera and have the guy say, yeah, you remember that advice you gave me, IT SUCKED. I couldn't watch, and it seemed to me a violation of two very important Jewish principles: a) you never embarrass or publicly humiliate anyone, and b) you are grateful to any teachers you ever had, even if most of what they taught you was wrong and only one tiny kernel of it was true. There's a saying about being grateful to someone who taught you even the smallest letter of the aleph-bet. Even if you later realize that your teacher was wrong, or that you have "moved beyond" your teacher, you find something to be grateful for.
It was a film about intense personal suffering, but part of me rebels at it. It's easy to assume, watching films like this, that gayness is all about suffering, and there's a delicate psychological line there -- if gays suffer so much, a viewer might think, then maybe it means they should be suffering, that suffering is somehow an ontological part of gay existence. It's a bit like if you constructed your whole notion of Judaism from Schindler's List. Making endless films about Jewish suffering leads to the idea that Jewishness is all about suffering, which leads to the whole notion of divinely ordained, punitive Jewish suffering, which leads to, which leads to. So it's a thing: how do you document and bear witness to the oppression of a minority without letting consciousness of oppression dominate an outsider's understanding of minority identity? How do you lead outsiders into the secret treasury of joy that characterizes that experience?
So, I dunno. Any readers out there want to share their perceptions of the intersection of Jewishness and gayness?
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| Great Movie of 2009 #5: IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA |
[Sunday
July 19th, 2009 at 10:23pm] |
This movie is a couple of years old (it was in competition for the Golden Lion at Venice the year that Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution won), but it is only starting to get one-off screenings around Australia now. It’s a pity it is getting such a low-key schedule, as it is a fantastic, beautiful movie. There’s not much to the plot at all: a young man sits in a café in Strasbourg sketching young women. He thinks he recognizes one of them, and follows her for a while. Nothing much else happens, but the description ends there as this is half the movie so any further details would be classified as spoilers. Given that it is half the movie, you may wonder what is so special about it. Well, anyone who has just sat in a public place and observed people, making up theories about their lives, witnessing emotional conversations, or even fallen in love with someone and fantasized about your life together, will resonate with the leisurely pace this film takes. (Heck, I’ve even done the “following a stranger with the hope of making that connection” thing, when backpacking in Christchurch, New Zealand. Not stalking, though! J ) It also has some connections with Before Sunrise (although a very different film) with the notion of being in an unfamiliar place, and the freedom that brings. Or, hey, maybe it was just a good way of being able to stare at beautiful women for 90 minutes or so. Whatever it was, this movie mesmerized me. During the movie, I didn’t want to change out of an uncomfortable seating position, or reach for my water bottle, in case I somehow broke the spell I was under. An absolutely gorgeous movie that shows the REAL power of cinema, it’s something you should try and catch if you get the opportunity, preferably on the big screen. (Other great movies of 2009: JCVD, Revolutionary Road, Tenderness, The Wrestler)
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| Great Harold Pinter movie - THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN |
[Sunday
July 19th, 2009 at 11:38am] |
The local classic movies cinema, Arc, has recently started a short season on Harold Pinter movies, and before today I hadn’t been that impressed. The two I had seen were The Servant and Accident and, whilst I found both interesting, neither were engrossing, and so I said about a fortnight ago that I was going to be more selective when choosing which ones I will see. The two movies mentioned also had two other common elements – the actor Dirk Bogarde and the director Joseph Losey – and I now am inclined to believe that it was one of those influences that was the defining point of lack-lustre of the movies. Because The French Lieutenant’s Woman was fantastic, and it was mostly down to the screenplay. Apparently the book was one considered to be almost unfilmable i.e. you couldn’t possibly convey the themes of the books through a medium other than the written word. Pinter got around this by telling us the story of the love affair between the two main actors of the film as well as depicting the resultant film of the book. I was impressed, as this predates Adaptation, one of my favourite films of the last decade, by about twenty years. The flicking between the movie and the making of the movie wasn’t jarring at all, although there are a couple of scenes where you have to guess just for a few seconds which reality you are seeing, but that was a fun thing rather than a bad thing. And, about twenty minutes before the end of the film, Jeremy Irons’ character tells us something about the ending that amps up your anticipation, and you can’t wait to see which storyline fares better. The other main reason for the film’s success is Meryl Streep’s performance – this is up there with her best (she was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond – I haven’t seen that film, so I can’t comment on which performance I think should have won). Irons provides a great on-screen partner for Streep, and it makes the whole thing work beautifully, even in the scenes where they overact melodramatic parts of the novel. This is a beautiful, intelligent and fun film that you should seek out if you haven’t already seen it. (And I’ll now be giving most or all of the remains of the Pinter season a chance).
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