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1. Name: Anne-Elisa
2. Age: 24
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? If I could live anywhere, I'd like to be able to travel all the time, to see all kind of places, meet all kind of different people, live in all kind of different cities and countries. I couldn't imagine myself settling in only one place, even if it was ideal. I need something new to grasp my attention fairy often.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like?
It would have lots, lots, lots of books. All those I always meant to read but couldn't find, all my favourite books from childhood I lost and forgot the name of. It would probably have also a fairly good provision of music and food. Somewhere comfortable to sit in, a cup of good tea, and a nice hearth fire.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character?
Dumbledore. I can't stand self-righteousness coupled with embodied Deus Ex Machina. As a character he's at the same time too powerful and too negligent of his duties, he'd be sympathetic if he was a little bit less of either. And in general, he bores me, except for the time when I have to admit he's amusing with the quirkiness.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full?
Ît all depends of what is in the glass :p
I'm in general someone who's both quite cynical and pretty optimist at the same time. In other words, it's not because the world's a fucked up place, because people all have dark sides and monsters living in their mind, or because life's a bitch and then we die that I think it's a good reason to morfond and mope. The world's cruel but it's also very, very pretty. There's all kind of gorgeous, beautiful things to experience. As long as you're not afraid to burn yourself - because you'll be hurt, but that's how you know you're alive - you can have some wicked fun. I don't believe in giving in (except of course when the upbeat attitude fails me and I break down utterly but that doesn't happen all that often)
7. Give us a quotation (Can be from a famous person, a song, or even a poem-whatever you want) you feel represents your life or personality.
"Never give aversion therapy to a masochist. The results are unpredictable."
That's from Lois McMaster Bujold's Mirror Dance. You can make of it what you will.
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends?
Huh ? I don't know, they've never come into conflict so far. I mean, if I have a religious feast I need to attend, I'll make plan with my family first. If it's anything else, I pick friends usually. It's not like I don't have many occasions to pass with my family as well.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory?
Oh, I don't know. Does reading books you liked count ?
Errr maybe riding horses. Going to Brittany and playing with that HUGE dog on the beach in October. Watching Japanese cartoons. I've no clue. Not a happy childhood, I'm afraid.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw?
Only one ? You're harsh.
I don't know how to connect with people. I don't know how to admit I like someone (just like, as a friend) without feeling like I just bared my soul and they're going to use it to torture me now. I don't know how to tell what I really feel, emotionnaly. At least not unless I'm speaking to strangers (O Internet, I love thee). I tend to rationnalize and intellectualize those things onto death.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that you would have joined the D.A.?
I'd probably have been left out of the loop entirely until it was ended, at which point I'd have felt bitterly regretful I didn't know about it so I could join and would compensate by badmouthing Umbridge even more during class. Which means I probably wouldn't have survived the year :p
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations.
Badly.
I'm utterly avoidant. If something stressed me I'm going to go to la-la-land and think about something else and spend my time in other things. I've failed several years of college because of this flaw of mine. And if I can't do that, I break down (I did that yesterday, and it was no fun)
I like dealing with things in a general laidback and cheerful attitude (taking into account I'm a twitchy little nervous person) and I usually managed to do that pretty fine even in stressful, hurrying situations (I'm not a planner and I like improvizing). But if there's people of pressing on back I can't stand it.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice?
Silly question, both.
You need fairness to judge an action. Evil acts are evil acts no matter the intentions of the perpetretator. (someone wrote a beautiful, beautiful fic about Snape killing Dumbledore, in a it-was-planned mindframe, but from that point of view with the question of forgiveness - she posted it on Yom Kippour which was all the more fitting)
You need compassion anytime you're dealing with people. You can't judge people ever, you can't ever sumerize them by the sums of their acts. People are people are people and there's no anyone who can't be understood and sympathized with - even if they're monsters.
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old soul?
I've no fucking idea what this question means.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you in?
I was sorted in Gryffindor at S_E, and it suits me fine. Okay, I was flabber-gasted at first because I tend to identify with the 'Others' whoever those are and HP is always from the point of view of Gryffindor, then I thought about it, wrote an essay about Gryffindor, and decided I was definitly one in a lot of aspects. It's people thinking Gryff are goody-two shoes who're wrong :p But I definitly got that attitude of bravado, attention-whorism, passion and challenge loving. I like to think that even though I fear lots of things, I am not easily intimidated.
I also think I wouldn't make a bad Ravenclaw by half, for the obvious reason that I like Thinking Too Much and analyzing things to death.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do so! Pictures are fun!
No, they're not (In other words, i'm bored and too lazy to give a link.)