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1. Name: Anna
2. Age: Soon to be 15
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? If I could live anywhere in the world, I would live everywhere. But I guess, after I lived everywhere, I’d settle down in New York City- if you can call that settling. I’d want to be right in the center of it all. I’d know everybody, and everywhere I went I’d see someone I knew. I’d be late to everywhere I went, because of traffic and because I’d have to stop by a dozen restaurants and stores along the way to chat with someone.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like? My room of requirement would be a mishmash of everything I love. There’d be a huge bed in one corner absolutely stuffed with pillows and fluffy blankets and maybe a few cats. Next to that would be my computer, equipped with a super comfy chair and hand warmers so that my hands don’t get all cold on the mouse like they are right now. Along the opposite wall would be a stage (preferably with Ben M. on it) and a spotlight. And there’d be a whole wall lined with books, fantasy books and romantic books and informative books.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character? My least favorite character in Harry Potter is definitely Peter Pettigrew. Its not that he’s inherently evil or bad, its just he’s so weak. He can’t seem to even exist by himself. He has to have someone bigger and smarter than him to order him around to get anything done. That sort of person just gives me chills.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? I’d have to say that half of this glass has water in it. I’m neither optimistic nor pessimistic. I am… istic, if you will. On good days I’m happy, but on bad days I’m unhappy. The way I look at things depends on how I’m feeling.
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. “Got to be a joker, he just do what he please.” -Come Together, The Beatles I feel like this represents my life because there’s no clear direction to it, I’m just kind of doing what I please. Living in the moment, maybe. That and humor is very important to me- its how I keep things interesting when they aren’t. So I guess what I’m saying is, I’m just kind of doing what I want, but humorously. And also making no sense.
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends? I’m thinking friends. I don’t really have the closest family, so I tend to value my friends as family members. I also sort of see my mother, the one family member I am close to, as a friend as well as a mother. My dad and my brother are distant, both physically and mentally, so they don’t really have much emphasis on my life. But my friends, Amelia and Sudi and Robin and everyone else, they’re like my siblings, and I would just die if I didn’t have them.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory? I’ve got this memory of Amelia, my best friend and I, going outside in the fall with a camera right after her mom raked and jumping in the leaves and taking pictures of each other. I’ve still got some of them- her eye really close up, surrounded by leaves, and another of her throwing leaves in the air and trying to catch them in her mouth. It was a really simple moment, a childish moment, even though we’re both on the verge of womanhood. It was really the last childhood memory I have, both of us awkward and ready to be women, but still children, really. We didn’t talk a lot, we talked with pictures and with laughter and with actions. That’s something we’ve lost some and gained some- now we talk with touches, on the arm, and the shoulder, but we’ve lost that senseless connection of just knowing.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw? My biggest flaw? Lack of motivation, probably. Or laziness. I can do anything I set my mind to, the problem is setting my mind to it. If its not something I seriously want to do, I’ll have a hard time getting myself to do it. I’ve been working on gaining the self control to actually get up and do it, but its not an easy thing for me. I just don’t have that thin that clicks and I just know, right, I have to do this.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that you would have joined the D.A.? Probably. I tend to like to think I’m doing the right thing, and the way J. K. Rowling wrote it, joining the DA was the right thing to do. If the book had been written with a different spin- from Draco’s point of view, for example- I might have seen things differently. I would have seen only the things Draco’s seen, and therefore the right thing to do would have been to protect my mother and fiercely defend my father. But, as it was written, I would have joined the DA.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations. I’m not really sure, because its not something I really think about, but I think I usually attempt to deal with other people first. If someone dies, I have to make sure everyone else is okay before I’m allowed to make sure I am. If I’m sad and someone else is, too, the other person has to be fixed before I can think about me. But its not a selfless thing- its more of a tucking it away for later, when I can be little resentful about them not noticing I was upset, too. I wish it was as thoughtful as it seemed, but really, its not.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice? Compassion, I think, although I think compassion and justice are both important on very different levels. But I think its important to consider how another person feels, to help them if they need help, to love them. Or something to that affect.
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old soul? I think my soul is a little bit old, but not a lot. Not like adult aged, just an older teenager than I am. Maybe eighteen? I feel like I’m not as lighthearted as everyone in my grade. Most of my friends are seniors, just because I mostly dislike the people my age. They’re all so… juvenile.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you in? I have good reasons to be in every house, and good reasons to not be in every house. Today, I think Gryffindor, just because I identify most with the Gryffindor characters in the books. Other days I might feel Slytherin, or Ravenclaw (usually not Hufflepuff, for no reason at all), but today its definitely Gryffindor.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do so! Pictures are fun!
2. Age: Soon to be 15
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? If I could live anywhere in the world, I would live everywhere. But I guess, after I lived everywhere, I’d settle down in New York City- if you can call that settling. I’d want to be right in the center of it all. I’d know everybody, and everywhere I went I’d see someone I knew. I’d be late to everywhere I went, because of traffic and because I’d have to stop by a dozen restaurants and stores along the way to chat with someone.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like? My room of requirement would be a mishmash of everything I love. There’d be a huge bed in one corner absolutely stuffed with pillows and fluffy blankets and maybe a few cats. Next to that would be my computer, equipped with a super comfy chair and hand warmers so that my hands don’t get all cold on the mouse like they are right now. Along the opposite wall would be a stage (preferably with Ben M. on it) and a spotlight. And there’d be a whole wall lined with books, fantasy books and romantic books and informative books.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character? My least favorite character in Harry Potter is definitely Peter Pettigrew. Its not that he’s inherently evil or bad, its just he’s so weak. He can’t seem to even exist by himself. He has to have someone bigger and smarter than him to order him around to get anything done. That sort of person just gives me chills.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? I’d have to say that half of this glass has water in it. I’m neither optimistic nor pessimistic. I am… istic, if you will. On good days I’m happy, but on bad days I’m unhappy. The way I look at things depends on how I’m feeling.
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. “Got to be a joker, he just do what he please.” -Come Together, The Beatles I feel like this represents my life because there’s no clear direction to it, I’m just kind of doing what I please. Living in the moment, maybe. That and humor is very important to me- its how I keep things interesting when they aren’t. So I guess what I’m saying is, I’m just kind of doing what I want, but humorously. And also making no sense.
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends? I’m thinking friends. I don’t really have the closest family, so I tend to value my friends as family members. I also sort of see my mother, the one family member I am close to, as a friend as well as a mother. My dad and my brother are distant, both physically and mentally, so they don’t really have much emphasis on my life. But my friends, Amelia and Sudi and Robin and everyone else, they’re like my siblings, and I would just die if I didn’t have them.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory? I’ve got this memory of Amelia, my best friend and I, going outside in the fall with a camera right after her mom raked and jumping in the leaves and taking pictures of each other. I’ve still got some of them- her eye really close up, surrounded by leaves, and another of her throwing leaves in the air and trying to catch them in her mouth. It was a really simple moment, a childish moment, even though we’re both on the verge of womanhood. It was really the last childhood memory I have, both of us awkward and ready to be women, but still children, really. We didn’t talk a lot, we talked with pictures and with laughter and with actions. That’s something we’ve lost some and gained some- now we talk with touches, on the arm, and the shoulder, but we’ve lost that senseless connection of just knowing.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw? My biggest flaw? Lack of motivation, probably. Or laziness. I can do anything I set my mind to, the problem is setting my mind to it. If its not something I seriously want to do, I’ll have a hard time getting myself to do it. I’ve been working on gaining the self control to actually get up and do it, but its not an easy thing for me. I just don’t have that thin that clicks and I just know, right, I have to do this.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that you would have joined the D.A.? Probably. I tend to like to think I’m doing the right thing, and the way J. K. Rowling wrote it, joining the DA was the right thing to do. If the book had been written with a different spin- from Draco’s point of view, for example- I might have seen things differently. I would have seen only the things Draco’s seen, and therefore the right thing to do would have been to protect my mother and fiercely defend my father. But, as it was written, I would have joined the DA.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations. I’m not really sure, because its not something I really think about, but I think I usually attempt to deal with other people first. If someone dies, I have to make sure everyone else is okay before I’m allowed to make sure I am. If I’m sad and someone else is, too, the other person has to be fixed before I can think about me. But its not a selfless thing- its more of a tucking it away for later, when I can be little resentful about them not noticing I was upset, too. I wish it was as thoughtful as it seemed, but really, its not.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice? Compassion, I think, although I think compassion and justice are both important on very different levels. But I think its important to consider how another person feels, to help them if they need help, to love them. Or something to that affect.
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old soul? I think my soul is a little bit old, but not a lot. Not like adult aged, just an older teenager than I am. Maybe eighteen? I feel like I’m not as lighthearted as everyone in my grade. Most of my friends are seniors, just because I mostly dislike the people my age. They’re all so… juvenile.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you in? I have good reasons to be in every house, and good reasons to not be in every house. Today, I think Gryffindor, just because I identify most with the Gryffindor characters in the books. Other days I might feel Slytherin, or Ravenclaw (usually not Hufflepuff, for no reason at all), but today its definitely Gryffindor.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do so! Pictures are fun!