Twenty Random Facts About Paola Sinistra [as of June 1997]
Title: Twenty Random Facts About Paola Sinistra Authors: catrinella and bronze_ribbons Rating: PG Disclaimer: We don't own Rowling's characters, we just enjoy snooping around their pasts and futures. Notes: Compiled for The HP Character Random Facts/Things Meme and Fic Fest. Feel free to riff on any of these prompts; we are both over eighteen, so smut is within bounds. This list is based on our Placet universe (a post-War Dorothy L. Sayers crossover) but we would be pleased to inspire other incarnations of Sinistra in other Potterdoms. :-) Originally posted 25 September 2005.
Twenty Random Facts About Paola Sinistra, Professor of Astronomy
1. She was born and raised on Sardinia, and still spends every summer there.
2. She is two years minus two days younger than Severus Snape, with whom she is friendly.
3. She prefers to sleep with women, but has fantasized about both Lupin and Snape.
4. She is a Ravenclaw, but finds Slytherins rather amusing. That is, when their pretensions aren't annoying the hell out of her.
5. Her birthchart shows her with the Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Capricorn, and Scorpio rising. Her temper bears this out.
6. Her most cherished possessions include an Amati viola and her grandmother's porcelain tea set.
7. Yes, she too has indulged in clandestine shagging up in the Astronomy Tower.
8. She's also been known to engage in sessions of nude lesson-planning. But not with Snape. Lupin isn't telling.
9. She and Snape dance very well together, though.
10. She's distantly related to Blaise Zabini on his father's side, but he still doesn't get away with anything in her classes.
11. She's good at teaching, but she doesn't regard it as one of her passions. It's merely the means to more important ends: the summers in Italy, well-cut robes, good wine, and prime opera tickets.
12. Her favorite constellation is Ursa Minor, because it's the first one her papa taught her to identify when she was five.
13. She's certain that, if she had gone to Beauxbatons instead of Hogwarts, she wouldn't have remained on speaking terms with her cousins.
14. She attended Magdalen College, Oxford, for two years as a Muggle. McGonagall knows why. So does Flitwick. Neither of them are telling.
15. She's keen on outdoor sports, including skiing, hiking, and anything to do with water. She even enjoyed fishing with Dumbledore.
16. Her Patronus is an otter. Miss Granger doesn't know this yet.
17. She is addicted to a Harlequin-type romance novel series called Heavenly Bodies.
18. She rereads Gaudy Night at least once a year. Her favorite character is Miss Edwards, the Science tutor.
19. She considers Harry Potter to be an okay student, but she simply doesn't think about him that often. He feels the same way about her and her teaching.
20. Her favorite perfume is Joy, a floral yet challenging scent by Jean Patou.