1. You're stuck on a desert island. You get one book, one album, and one person. Whom and what do you bring?
2. Sort Barty Crouch, Jr. Into which house would send him and why? Sort Barty Crouch Sr. Into which would would you send him and why?
3. Re-sort the following characters. None can go to their canon houses (unless you make a REALLY good argument): Remus Lupin, Luna Lovegood, Cedric Diggory, and Draco Malfoy.
4. What house do you see the most in yourself? Why?
1. You're stuck on a desert island. You get one book, one album, and one person. Whom and what do you bring? I bring my sister. She was my sister, my best friend, my most trusted person ever since we were growing up. She is the top of my list of those who are my people, and we already have the goal of living in the same metropolitan area if we can, in the future. She is the only person I have ever taken into account when deciding where to go for what I want, and to what lengths. She is not a factor that would make me abandon my goals, or decide against taking a great opportunity, but if I can get a great opportunity near her - so much the better.
I would bring the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, my favorite novel and the original distopia novel. I can read it and reread it many times over and over again, and every time I still cannot put it down. It shows what the State can become, an awfully good prediction for many things in the Soviet Union, even if it never got such complete power over every aspect of everyone’s lives. “I” is an
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3. Re-sort the following characters. None can go to their canon houses (unless you make a REALLY good argument): Remus Lupin, Luna Lovegood, Cedric Diggory, and Draco Malfoy. Remus Lupin; Slytherin. He is a smart intelligent young man, who manages to befriend the most popular boys in school. Despite being a werewolf, something very difficult to hide at the time, his secret remains hidden with the exception of his people, which shows that he is good at manipulation and keeping secrets. He graduates from Hogwarts happy, having moved up from his loner status, and no doubt with ambitions for how much further he will go. And then suddenly he has every single individual who matters to him ripped away - death, death, supposed death, imprisonment with supposed betrayal. And that just completely destroys him. He is living a shabby loner life because without them, with having made such an error in judgment (supposedly in Sirius), that makes him question himself and his purpose in life. Yet, somehow, he still manages to keep his “furry little
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4. What house do you see the most in yourself? Why? Slytherin. I have great ambition. I have had ambition since I was about seven years old, when I decided I was going to become a US Supreme Court justice. I then actually worked at it, it wasn't just a daydream of mine that I wasn't going to pursue - I actually began working towards it, right away. I watched Law and Order and pestered every lawyer friend my family had, did anything I could to find out more. As I got older, I read about law and Constitutional law, and in college I took classes in order to get into Law school, focusing on Constitutional law for my first term. I spent over a decade of my life slowly but surely working toward that dream
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1. If you ever encounter a mountain lion, you should try to make yourself look as big as possible (wave around a jacket and such) and make a lot of noise in the hopes of convincing it that you're not easy prey. By contrast, if you run into a gorilla, it would be much better to stay still and whatever you do, avoid eye contact. In both cases, running away is not recommended as then you make yourself something to chase
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1. If you ever encounter a mountain lion, you should try to make yourself look as big as possible (wave around a jacket and such) and make a lot of noise in the hopes of convincing it that you're not easy prey. By contrast, if you run into a gorilla, it would be much better to stay still and whatever you do, avoid eye contact. In both cases, running away is not recommended as then you make yourself something to chase.
What's your reaction to me telling you this random information? I already knew it. I also know how to kill an anaconda if it tries to hunt you. My reaction to knowing this kind of - not random - information is that one needs to know one's enemy/predator/threat in order to best survive in the world. Knowledge is power. The best way to survive is to be ready for anything, be prepared, both with knowledge and physical skill. And in case you wanted to know, I actually have survived encountering a mountain lion. I had an incredible adrenaline rush for the entire day after that incredible encounter.
3. Do you think it's possible to maintain your personal ethics or morals in every situation? Is it possible that sometimes the only solution requires unethical behaviour? I believe it is. There is no situation that cannot be solved ethically. It may not be a solution I prefer, but there is one. My personal beliefs are an odd mix, but a large part of it is Jewish. And in Judaism, there are outlines for the most extreme of circumstances (which are generally outlined, such as when more than seven lives are at stake), that state which Jewish laws should be broken ethically in the case of an emergency. Clearly, it is more important to save someone’s life than it is to eat kosher, even though eating non-kosher breaks G-d’s law. It is more important to survive than to follow the letter of a code and die in the process. But it is not difficult to maintain an ethical code in any situation, if you truly understand its meaning. Essentially, to be able to deal with any situation ethically, one simply needs to have truly thought out and understood
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1) You are confronted with immediate danger. Will it be fight or flight? Honestly, it depends on the exact situation. I am not going to run from an anaconda - that means death. Yet neither do I want to attack when that only leads to my death. The situation is about knowledge and making the right call at the right time. Rather than reacting on the simple fight/flight principle, I will make the best decision I can in the amount of time I have to do so
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Which do you think is more important to a Slytherin, a Gryffindor, a Hufflepuff, and a Ravenclaw.
Slytherin; Being polite. If a Slytherin knows s/he is right, s/he knows. The truth is no less the truth because an idiot cannot see it. And a Slytherin thinks ahead, considers the advantages and disadvantages of different routes, different actions. There is a calculation, a thoughtfulness, which understands that being so stubborn and so determined to be right can burn bridges and turn others away from helping you. After all, when has someone denied helping someone because s/he was polite? If it has happened, it has happened fewer times than someone has decided against helping someone for how much they refused to compromise being right to anything else. As such, the Slytherin is polite.
Gryffindor; Being right. Harry definitely shows this. Dumbledore, even, shows this. They always have to be right. That is not to say they are all pompous jackasses like James Potter was in school, but that need to be right
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Resorted: SlytherincaketimeApril 9 2009, 13:33:23 UTC
You were unanimously voted into Slytherin by the judges. Most judges noted that your Slytherin side came out in the Questions and Answer section, but that your application was that of a Ravenclaw. Your Slytherin side is definitely your core personality and that's why you belong there.
You are incredibly ambitious, confident, calculating and definitely not hot-headed. A judge noted that your answers were ambiguous, and that's deliciously Slytherin. You're a survivalist and very opinionated in a Slytherin way.
You definitely won the judges over. :) Please defriend yourself from the Ravenclaw common room and join cunningfolk. Have a nice holiday. :)
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2. Sort Barty Crouch, Jr. Into which house would send him and why? Sort Barty Crouch Sr. Into which would would you send him and why?
3. Re-sort the following characters. None can go to their canon houses (unless you make a REALLY good argument): Remus Lupin, Luna Lovegood, Cedric Diggory, and Draco Malfoy.
4. What house do you see the most in yourself? Why?
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I would bring the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, my favorite novel and the original distopia novel. I can read it and reread it many times over and over again, and every time I still cannot put it down. It shows what the State can become, an awfully good prediction for many things in the Soviet Union, even if it never got such complete power over every aspect of everyone’s lives. “I” is an ( ... )
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Remus Lupin; Slytherin. He is a smart intelligent young man, who manages to befriend the most popular boys in school. Despite being a werewolf, something very difficult to hide at the time, his secret remains hidden with the exception of his people, which shows that he is good at manipulation and keeping secrets. He graduates from Hogwarts happy, having moved up from his loner status, and no doubt with ambitions for how much further he will go. And then suddenly he has every single individual who matters to him ripped away - death, death, supposed death, imprisonment with supposed betrayal. And that just completely destroys him. He is living a shabby loner life because without them, with having made such an error in judgment (supposedly in Sirius), that makes him question himself and his purpose in life. Yet, somehow, he still manages to keep his “furry little ( ... )
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What's your reaction to me telling you this random information? I already knew it. I also know how to kill an anaconda if it tries to hunt you. My reaction to knowing this kind of - not random - information is that one needs to know one's enemy/predator/threat in order to best survive in the world. Knowledge is power. The best way to survive is to be ready for anything, be prepared, both with knowledge and physical skill. And in case you wanted to know, I actually have survived encountering a mountain lion. I had an incredible adrenaline rush for the entire day after that incredible encounter.
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1) You are confronted with immediate danger.
Will it be fight or flight?
2) What would your amortentia potion smell like?
3) What animal would your patronus be?
4) Being Polite vs. Being Right
Which do you think is more important to a Slytherin, a Gryffindor, a Hufflepuff, and a Ravenclaw.
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Will it be fight or flight? Honestly, it depends on the exact situation. I am not going to run from an anaconda - that means death. Yet neither do I want to attack when that only leads to my death. The situation is about knowledge and making the right call at the right time. Rather than reacting on the simple fight/flight principle, I will make the best decision I can in the amount of time I have to do so ( ... )
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Which do you think is more important to a Slytherin, a Gryffindor, a Hufflepuff, and a Ravenclaw.
Slytherin; Being polite. If a Slytherin knows s/he is right, s/he knows. The truth is no less the truth because an idiot cannot see it. And a Slytherin thinks ahead, considers the advantages and disadvantages of different routes, different actions. There is a calculation, a thoughtfulness, which understands that being so stubborn and so determined to be right can burn bridges and turn others away from helping you. After all, when has someone denied helping someone because s/he was polite? If it has happened, it has happened fewer times than someone has decided against helping someone for how much they refused to compromise being right to anything else. As such, the Slytherin is polite.
Gryffindor; Being right. Harry definitely shows this. Dumbledore, even, shows this. They always have to be right. That is not to say they are all pompous jackasses like James Potter was in school, but that need to be right ( ... )
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You are incredibly ambitious, confident, calculating and definitely not hot-headed. A judge noted that your answers were ambiguous, and that's deliciously Slytherin. You're a survivalist and very opinionated in a Slytherin way.
You definitely won the judges over. :) Please defriend yourself from the Ravenclaw common room and join cunningfolk.
Have a nice holiday. :)
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