babilonium (babilonium) wrote in hr_sorting, @ 2010-08-29 19:06:00 |
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Mirror mirror - wait, wrong story. A hat? I want to say hat.
The Basics
Name: Lova
Age: 28
Did one of our members refer you? If not, how did you find out about Hogwarts Rising? Through a friend at Livejournal. :)
General Personality In your opinion, what are your top five positive characteristics? Why? 1. Intelligent - It took some time, but I’m finally able to say it. I am intelligent, and although like most intelligent people I was treated like I was radioactive at school (back when knowledge was frowned upon) I’m proud of it now. I love learning and if it was at all possible right now I would go back to the University and never leave. In your opinion, what are your top five negative characteristics? Why? 1. Indecisive - Sometimes I’m having a hard time deciding everything. From which flavor of ice cream I really want to what movie I want to see. Or even what I’m going to wear. Every little choice becomes the focus of intense analysis, like the day would stand and fall with whether I’d eat Rocky Road and Strawberry Sorbet. Give me too many options and I become a very sad little (insert proper house animal here). If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change? Why? I would love to be able to dedicate my life to one thing, and one thing only. To be one of those people who give 100% of themselves to one thing, be it fishing, painting, or collecting beer bottles. I have several things I'm passionate about, but nothing that would cause me to sacrifice everything else. Either/Or - Choose one or the other. Explanations not required, but welcome. Make plans of be spontaneous? Make plans, although I enjoy spontaneity within the frames of those plans! If you were forced to choose, would you allow fifty strangers to die in the place of one of your loved ones? Explain. I'm going to have to say yes. A loved one is many times more important to me than any number of strangers. It would make me feel horrible but I'd rather live with the fact that I caused the deaths of fifty people than lose a loved one. It's a difficult question and in all honesty I don't know how much damage it would do to me, I just know that I'd make the choice. The Harry Potter Books Who is your favorite character in the Harry Potter series? Why? Severus Snape. I was intrigued by the character Severus Snape from the first time he appeared, glaring and sneering at our poor hero in book one. He had depth, and I couldn’t wait to find out more about him. J.K Rowling has spent a lot of love and thought on that character, and it shows. It’s subtle in book one, but it gets more and more interesting as the story moves forward. In book six I knew exactly whose Potions Book Harry carried around with him. I find it especially brilliant the way Rowling kept dangling little opportunities for reconciliation and understanding in front of our noses. Like in book five with Harry’s Occlumency lessons. I was sure they would gain some sort of understanding between him and Snape, and yes, I even hoped for a truce of some kind. Instead, our beloved author let hormonal, angsty Harry collide full force with bitter, angry adult Snape. Splendid. And don’t get me started about Harry catching Draco crying... but that’s a different story. Who is your least favorite character in the Harry Potter series? Why? James Potter. The more I know about him, the more I dislike him. Between James and Sirius I disliked Sirius more, because he obviously hadn’t reflected at all over his behavior, didn’t regret anything at all. But then I though about his upbringing, in a screwed up pure blood family with an utterly insane mother and so on. He took his frustrations out on a lonely boy with few (if any) friends, and justified his actions by the fact that the boy was a Slytherin. With his emotional baggage, it’s understandable. But what the hell was James’ problem? He came from a loving family, or so it seemed. In the end of book five, he seemed like a weak and pathetic bully, and a vain one at that. I couldn’t stand him, but then bullies are one of my pet peeves. I feel sorry for them in the case of Sirius Black, because he hasn’t had it easy himself, but I place James Potter even lower than Crabbe and Goyle. If I went to school with him, I honestly think I would plot his life to pieces. Crabbe and Goyle are downright stupid, and I think one can assume that they don’t come from the most loving and supportive of families, since their fathers are Death Eaters. If you went to school at Hogwarts, what canon character(s) would you be friends with? What canon character(s) would you not get along with. Explain. I think I would get along with Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom the most. Seeing as I always gravitated towards the underdogs and/or the slightly quirky at school so I guess I'd do that at Hogwarts too. I'd probably like Hermione and Ginny as well, come to think of it. And at that age I'd be much too shy and intimidated to approach any of the canon Slytherins we've seen during that time. I've always greatly dislikes bullies so Draco, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle would be right out, along with James Potter and Sirius Black form the earlier days. If it was back in the Marauders' days I probably would have been friends with Snape, if nothing else because I love a good discussion and I was definitely soft-hearted and insistent enough to make the extra effort when he'd be too mistrusting to be friends. If you had been given the Marauders Map so you could sneak out of the castle, what would you have done with it? Explain. I'm not big on the random mischief, so I'd probably use it to sneak out and visit the forbidden section of the library. Forbid me to read a book and it will be the first one on my to-read list, and so it was back when I was a kid too. To me knowledge could never be wrong and would that ever bite me in the ass in the Forbidden Section! If someone gave you enough Felix Felicis to last you one day, how would you spend that day? Haha, I'd probably go out in search of money, as in buy lottery tickets or something! Money doesn't buy happiness it will solve a lot of problems and create a lot of opportunities if it's used correctly. I could help my whole family as well as myself, and my close friends as well. Other than that, I would greatly enjoy just walking around for awhile and have good things happening to me. And I would spend a few hours writing, just in case the potion would unlock some ideas or strokes of brilliance from my subconscious. What would amortentia smell like to you? Explain. The turning of the seasons. Autumn is my favorite season of them all and I love the smell of it in the air, at first just a hint of crispiness and golden afternoon light in the morning and later the cool comfort of long evenings and turning colors. I think it would represent my love for imagination, dreams and freedom of thought. To me the potion would smell like that, with the occasional waft of freshly bakes cookies for joy. If you were given a time turner, what would you do with it? Explain. Never ever, except occasionally for awesome reasons, change time. But I would definitely buy me more time. Mostly alone time in which to read and write without having to sacrifice too much of my time from my friends and loved ones. What would you see in the Mirror of Erised? Do you see this coming to pass? Explain. I see myself as a famous author, a horror writer right up there with H.P Lovecraft, Clive Barker and Stephen King. I’m sitting in a comfortable chair with my laptop perched on my lap. I’m working on my latest project. The walls are lined with bookshelves of which one is full with my own published works and the rest with my favorite books. There’s a warm glow from the crackling fire in the fireplace and my boyfriend is sitting on the sofa with his own laptop, working on his own projects. Beside me on my pillow my pet chinchilla is fast asleep, finally able to take it easy (and not run around my apartment tearing up my things like he does today!) If you were faced with a boggart, what would it turn into? Why? I think my boggart would turn into inferi versions of my family. I’m scared to death of zombies, the thought of a dead person moving around freaks me out (although I still like it from the safe distance of movies and fiction). But the sight of my family in such an undignified and horrible way would paralyze me. The loss of them combined with that horror… I think it would take me a lot of time to overcome it. Possibly with ridiculous, low-budget special effects, like a spray of fake blood, or if part of the inferi/zombie makeup fell off. Actually, I believe that a person's boggart form would probably change over time. I could easily see my boggart take a spider shape a few years ago, for example. If money was no object and you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why? Everywhere! I love traveling. Alright, maybe not everywhere, but more or less. I love Bretagne, France because I'm completely in love with the beaches. I'm not a beach-person, I hate sitting in the sun and will keep to the shadows with a book if I can. But walking around looking for pretty seashells, stones and poking around for crabs? Around sunset or sunrise? Pure bliss! There are a multitude of places I would love to visit, and while I love to travel with my friends I would have no problem going alone with a couple of books. There's supposed to be this island somewhere (can't remember the name) which is famous for the currents bringing all sorts of ocean treasures to the beaches and I would love to go there. The dreamer in me is ecstatic at the thought! Defining House Traits In your own words, define the following: Courage:A quality that allows you to do something despite being terrified of it, to face your fears. And to do it with a certain amount of confidence. Which house do you feel you belong in the least? Explain. (This is not an invitation to bash the various Hogwarts houses.) While all are fine houses, I'm going to have to say Gryffindor. I'm not particularly chivalrous or courageous, and I'm certainly no hero. I'm willing to make sacrifices, but unless there's something personally important to me, I won't run into burning buildings. |