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1. Name: Melissa
2. Age: 15
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose?
I'd live in New York. Because I love how eccentric and exciting it is. Really, the high possibilities of getting mugged, raped, stolen from, beaten, etc. don't faze me a bit. (Okay, I lie. They do. But it's not scaring me to death.) In fact, they make the city so strangely appealing to me that it's kind of perverted. I mean, I couldn't live in a place where nothing HAPPENS and everything is just blahhh. That's why I love New York, with all its topsy-turviness and where nothing is ever, you know, slightly sane. There's so much to do and see. I love that.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like?
BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS. No, really. It'd be crammed full of every kind of book. With really squishy chairs and footrests and tea, and probably a computer in the corner. But mostly books. Because they are my life My deepest darkest secret is that I want to be locked in a bookstore--how's that?
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character?
Well, Umbridge. But that's a given. To be perfectly honest (and I'm probably going to get shot for this), I don't like Snape. AT ALL. I mean I do find the situation that he's in now important and such, I can't just ignore it, but I don't like him as a character. He's just....gah. He's untrustworthy and evil--from book one I knew he was going to be the one I didn't like. I want to just throttle him whenever I read about him in the books. Of course, fanon!Snape I love very much, but that's a different story entirely.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full?
Half full, definitely. With ice. Er. Okay. Yes, I'm an optimist, and a very big one. I loathe people who complain, and I always look for good things, even if whatever the situation I'm in really lacks them.
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.
"Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love." - Sappho
I'm a horribly obsessed romantic. Love is always the most important thing, and nobody is anything without it.
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends?
Family. I love my friends to death, but family is, after all, family. I live with them, I've grown up with them, I know them, and the world is the world because of them.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory?
Many, but I remember once in the second grade my friends and I (we had this little group) got in trouble for the first time out of the whole year and we were made to sit down during recess. It was a naughty bench or something like that, I don't remember, but we were all so scared of it and then we actually had to sit down on it. We were terrified. It was funny, now that I think about it. I think one of us was crying. ;)
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw?
It would probably be that I'm very sensitive. You wouldn't guess it, because I try to hide it, and I'm good at doing it. But really, I'm very sensitive. Sometimes when people are joking with me, more than often I'll think they're serious. I cry easily. I wish I didn't, but I do. I'm emotional and that can be a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing, and that's what I consider my biggest flaw.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that you would have joined the D.A.?
Oh, of course. Breaking the rules is always fun, and it was for a very good cause anyway. I'd drag my friends along, too. Heh.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations.
If it's a minor one, I'll sit down, try to concentrate, and solve it out. I'll stop what I'm doing and just stare into space while I reason with myself. If it's a big one, I'll rant for a little. I'll rave. I might cry. (See?) But after that, I'll tell myself to shape up and then I'll do the pros and cons and find a way to solve my problem.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice?
Both, really. You need justice in the world, but you need compassion as well. Justice makes the right things happen, and compassion makes anything happen. I'd say compassion right off, because you've got an emotional softie talking here, but justice goes right along with it.
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old soul?
I'm a kiddie. I like running barefoot through meadows on sunny days because I love the dew between my toes and the sun in my hair, and I'll stretch out on the porch without caring if I'm tired, and I'll make mud pies and pick daisies, just because I love the carefree feeling of it all. I'm a huge optimist, and that's what kids are, really, but I'm a bit of a realist too, which is also what they are. I'll want my summer forever, but I know it only lasts so long.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you in?
Truthfully, I think Gryffindor. I'm bouncy, I'm energetic, I'm one big ball of insanity patted with straightjackets. (Er.) Not to mention I'm largely opinionated and I WILL stand up for what I believe in if you choose to provoke me. Either that or Hufflepuff, because I'm an extremely loyal sort, which gets me hurt sometimes. But I do it for the love.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do so! Pictures are fun!
Pictures, yeeeey!
Sorry, couldn't find a better one. I suck at finding pictures of myself.