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1. Name: Liz
2. Age: I’ll be twenty this week
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? I’d love to be able to split my time between London and Boston. I’m 100% city-girl and I love history.
I grew up in Boston and it will always be home. I love the history, the culture, knowing my way around the city without having to think about it. I love my brick sidewalks and nasty winters.
On the other hand I’m a total anglophile (there seem to be a lot of us in fandom)… I’m actually working (ever so slowly) on my degree in British History. My mother took me to Britain on vacation when I was 14 or 15 and well, you know how you can meet a person and just click with them right away? I’m firm believer you can click with cities that same way. London and I click.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like? Looking over the comm. so many people have already said this but I suppose there’s a reason for that. I want a cozy library with hugely thick carpets that smells like old book bindings. I also need a sewing machine and a huge amount of beads for making jewelry. Oh and 4 windows each with a view of the city, one showing each season. And while I know my laptop and wireless won’t work at Hogwarts… I need them. I’d feel so isolated without the internet.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character? That’s a difficult question. I have to go with Snape. I find him interesting and useful as far as the plot is concerned but I cannot abide dreadful teachers. Every time I read the books I’m hopping up and down, not in hatred of the Death Eaters but anger and annoyance with the incompetent teachers. Umbridge was dreadful but Snape is unbearable.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? I’m a whiner and a ranter by nature (aren’t I lovely? :P) but I tend to classify myself as cautiously optimistic. I have far too much hope for the future to say anything but half full
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.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling. - Dr R W Shepherd
Anger is a brief lunacy. - Horace
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends? Family. I love my friends dearly but while they may grow and change I know my family, no matter how maddening they may be will always be there for me.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory? Being read to by my mother, my father, and grandmother. I love nothing more than curling up on couch and hearing someone else’s voice paint a picture for me. I had little traditions with all there of them growing up.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw? I was having a hard time choosing amongst insecurity, my temper, and procrastination. But I think they can probably all be summed up as a lack of self discipline. Whether I’m writing a paper the day after it’s due, flipping out at my brother, or looking for constant reassurances it all comes down to self-discipline and I am lacking it.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that you would have joined the D.A.? Yes. There’s nothing I hate more than a bad teacher and it is quite easy to get me very riled up about in justice. I probably would have bitched Umbridge out n class before the consequences occurred to me.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations. It varies widely. Sometimes I blow all over the place and at everyone, sometimes I’m calm as can be (these times never have to do with school) and other times I just hide from the stress under the covers.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice? Can’t I have both? I think it must be compassion because I’m not sure you can have justice without compassion. I tend to be overly empathetic and human rights is one of my favorite rants but just because you had a rough childhood doesn’t mean I’m going to let you get away with murder (literally or figuratively).
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old soul? Both. I love nothing more than horsing around with my friends. My dolls are still easily accessible and I’m never too old for any book. BUT… I’m often told I’m mature beyond my years, I’m not sure I this my nature or something that happened as result of difficulties in my life but I’m certainly more emotionally mature than most of my peers. (It sounds mean but living in dorm I’m pretty sure it’s true) My best friend says I’m a parent at heart and that’s why I can play on the floor and offer eerily good insights into other people’s lives.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you in? I’d say Gryffindor but my flist has been known to call me Ravenclaw. I’m brave and impulsive but I also research for fun.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do so! Pictures are fun!
2. Age: I’ll be twenty this week
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? I’d love to be able to split my time between London and Boston. I’m 100% city-girl and I love history.
I grew up in Boston and it will always be home. I love the history, the culture, knowing my way around the city without having to think about it. I love my brick sidewalks and nasty winters.
On the other hand I’m a total anglophile (there seem to be a lot of us in fandom)… I’m actually working (ever so slowly) on my degree in British History. My mother took me to Britain on vacation when I was 14 or 15 and well, you know how you can meet a person and just click with them right away? I’m firm believer you can click with cities that same way. London and I click.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like? Looking over the comm. so many people have already said this but I suppose there’s a reason for that. I want a cozy library with hugely thick carpets that smells like old book bindings. I also need a sewing machine and a huge amount of beads for making jewelry. Oh and 4 windows each with a view of the city, one showing each season. And while I know my laptop and wireless won’t work at Hogwarts… I need them. I’d feel so isolated without the internet.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character? That’s a difficult question. I have to go with Snape. I find him interesting and useful as far as the plot is concerned but I cannot abide dreadful teachers. Every time I read the books I’m hopping up and down, not in hatred of the Death Eaters but anger and annoyance with the incompetent teachers. Umbridge was dreadful but Snape is unbearable.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? I’m a whiner and a ranter by nature (aren’t I lovely? :P) but I tend to classify myself as cautiously optimistic. I have far too much hope for the future to say anything but half full
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.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling. - Dr R W Shepherd
Anger is a brief lunacy. - Horace
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends? Family. I love my friends dearly but while they may grow and change I know my family, no matter how maddening they may be will always be there for me.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory? Being read to by my mother, my father, and grandmother. I love nothing more than curling up on couch and hearing someone else’s voice paint a picture for me. I had little traditions with all there of them growing up.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw? I was having a hard time choosing amongst insecurity, my temper, and procrastination. But I think they can probably all be summed up as a lack of self discipline. Whether I’m writing a paper the day after it’s due, flipping out at my brother, or looking for constant reassurances it all comes down to self-discipline and I am lacking it.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that you would have joined the D.A.? Yes. There’s nothing I hate more than a bad teacher and it is quite easy to get me very riled up about in justice. I probably would have bitched Umbridge out n class before the consequences occurred to me.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations. It varies widely. Sometimes I blow all over the place and at everyone, sometimes I’m calm as can be (these times never have to do with school) and other times I just hide from the stress under the covers.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice? Can’t I have both? I think it must be compassion because I’m not sure you can have justice without compassion. I tend to be overly empathetic and human rights is one of my favorite rants but just because you had a rough childhood doesn’t mean I’m going to let you get away with murder (literally or figuratively).
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old soul? Both. I love nothing more than horsing around with my friends. My dolls are still easily accessible and I’m never too old for any book. BUT… I’m often told I’m mature beyond my years, I’m not sure I this my nature or something that happened as result of difficulties in my life but I’m certainly more emotionally mature than most of my peers. (It sounds mean but living in dorm I’m pretty sure it’s true) My best friend says I’m a parent at heart and that’s why I can play on the floor and offer eerily good insights into other people’s lives.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you in? I’d say Gryffindor but my flist has been known to call me Ravenclaw. I’m brave and impulsive but I also research for fun.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do so! Pictures are fun!