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• What sort of profession in the wizarding world would you choose and why?
  
  Hmm, something quiet and where I predominanately work by myself, I simply work best that way simply because of comfort level at least unless I could work with a close friend or two, so perhaps in the library at Hogwarts. Plus, I'd have my hands on what most assuredly would be some really great books, and I like to read, so sounds good to me.
  
  
• If you could teach one class at Hogwarts, what would it be and why?
  
  I don't know for sure if teaching is something I'd want to do, although I think it could be a great thing if I had the right kind of class. I would need to feel like I'm making a difference even if only in a small way to the lives of the kids I'm teaching to make the job worthwhile. If I constantly had particularly unruly or uncaring classes, it would make it hard for me to be a teacher. Perhaps I could teach Charms since it seems as if this is a class that really teaches the roots of most everything else one would learn in a magic school, and therefore where I could really help the kids with their studies to further themselves.
  
  
• This year, The TriWizard Tournament is being held once again and you're of age. Do you put your name in the Goblet? Why or why not?
  
  No, I'm not exactly a risk taker, nor do I have a desire to be this big champion and have this fame and glory. Fame would drive me nuts, because I'm a private person. Not to mention going out in front of all those people would make me far too nervous. I hate being put on the spot, and I wouldn't be able to think straight. It's just not my kind of thing. I'd just cheer for the ones who were meant to be a part of this tournament and hope they live through it!
  
  
• If you could choose your animagus form, what would it be and why?
  
  A wolf, (color preferences either snow-white or completely black, but it doesn't ultimately matter) because I'm mostly a solitary, independent person, but the few friends I do have (i.e. my "packmates") I am fiercely loyal to and form deep connections with. Because of being as solitary as I am, I am misunderstood like the wolves who are often thought to be fierce killer beasts (or in my case, thought of as simply unfriendly or antisocial), when in fact they are quite shy of humans, which I very much am also. I also personally find wolves to be rather spiritual animals of sorts, and I am deeply spiritual.
  
  
• If you could be written into any HP Series book as a new character, which book would it be, and who would your character be? Why did you choose that book/character?
  
  I generally like to see myself as the background extra in a movie or book, I'm not a spotlight person. With the extras you wouldn't have the atmosphere of the scene as much, if at all, and as such I find the background just as important as the focused characters, even if it's not something necessarily consciously looked at. Maybe I'm a nameless face in a crowd, but I'm still doing something important even if it may not be known exactly what that is. I also wouldn't mind being a good friend to Harry, although I may not often be around as often as Hermione and Ron simply because I am more of a lone wolf, but I would be there when it counted. I'd probably be the quieter one in their group, and most likely would feel the odd one out.
  
  
• What is your favorite magical spell/charm? Why?
  
  Perhaps the animagus, because I just find it a rather surreal but wonderful concept of being something else that's not human, it'd be like looking at everything with a completely different perspective, and it'd probably seem like a whole new world in a way through animal eyes. I think that would be a great experience, and what's more, you could do it anytime you wanted! Also, it would be an excellent way of going out by yourself and getting away from things for awhile with no one to really bother you. If I'm a wolf, quite a few people would possibly think I'd tear them to shreds if they went near me anyway even if I wouldn't, so maintaining my space wouldn't be that big of a problem.
  
  
• Name three reasons why you would like to be sorted into each House.
  
  Gryffindor:
  
  1. It's honorable to stand up for what you believe is right, even if it means sometimes opposing your own friends, who are perhaps the hardest people one could stand up to. This is very important to me, to be able to hold your own if you believe in it, and deem it the right thing to do.
  2. Friends would be willing to sacrifice their lives for each other. It would be good to know someone's got your back. I would do the same for a friend.
  3. People of good conscious and intentions, and while not purposeful rule-breakers, they do so when they feel with their heart it is the right thing to do. I think with both my heart and my head though primarily am a heart person by nature yet have learned not to become too clouded by emotion either, but I try to do what I think is right, even if it may not be within the boundaries set.
  
  Ravenclaw
  
  1. You could learn so much from these guys in all sorts of varieties of smarts. The creativity would be endless. I do enjoy learning things (albeit a preference to learn on my OWN terms, than what I'm told to learn in school, I just wish to pursue my own interests on my own time), and have strong curiosity, and I have a fair amount of what is probably useless information. It won't make me the next Jeopardy champion or anything, but it has come in handy. I'd love to be able to learn even more things whether it's "useless" or no. It's fun either way.
  2. They strike me as a rather quiet type, which I like. I personally am not a big time partier or anything and rather sit back with a good book. I'm a very independent soul and I tend to have always felt somewhat more mature than people my age. I can act silly sometimes which is just fun, but overall I'm a pretty serious person who likes a decent sense of maturity in people.
  3. These guys are wise, and are a good place to get some advice from. I have a history of liking characters that make good guides/mentor types (Dumbledore for instance, in other fandoms Gandalf in Lord of the Rings etc) and growing/learning from them. These are people who can really help the younger ones to shape their lives. I wouldn't mind being one of these types of people myself someday when I'm a lot older.
  
  Hufflepuff:
  
  1. I admire loyalty and trustworthiness greatly, which they seem to practically be made of. These would be some of the best friends to have, and they would be very accepting, which is awesome. Close-mindedness is a bad downfall of the world today, I believe.
  2. Patience isn't one of my strong points, (though it is not the worst), so I believe they could help me improve upon it.
  3. There's not much focus on them, but they seem true to their heart, which I think is a key trait anyone should have. I don't like fakes or dishonesty. They seem pretty humble too and I definitely am not very fond of arrogance.
  
  Slytherin:
  
  1. Hey, a little bit of cunning to do what you need to do can be necessary. But I wouldn't hurt anybody with it, not intentionally anyway.
  2. There is a certain amount of secrecy in this house, and I am pretty good at working in the shadows since it's where I prefer to be anyway.
  3. You know, if I were in Slytherin, I'd be on Snape's good side and perhaps get a better grade in Potions heh. But, ok, Slytherin has the drive and determination to do what they desire to do, which, if in the right mindframe, I can have a deathly determination. When it hits, it hits hard.
  
  
• You've received your O.W.L results. What are your results? (You have to have failed or done poorly in at least one subject)
  
  Astronomy - O, the night time is something that gives me a great feeling of inner peace even in a chaotic world. The stars, and the moon and the infinite space are something that's just absolutely mindblowing with the wonder and mystery it contains. I feel most awake at night so this would be a wonderful subject for me.
  
  Charms - O, as I said for what I would teach, it's practically the root of everything else you'll need to be doing, so this class is essential to do well at.
  
  Defence Against the Dark Arts - E, this is also a very interesting subject to me, and it could one day be incredibly useful.
  
  Herbology - E, this subject would be fairly interesting to me so I believe I would do well.
  
  History of Magic - A, possibly an E. It's not that I'd dislike this subject, but I'd never be able to pay attention to the droning lectures (this is, of course, assuming I'd have the same teacher as the kids do in the books). I can be an awfully spacy person as it is to the point of drifting off accidentally in the middle of conversations, so when given even more of a reason to be spacy I'd end up staring out the window and drifting off into my daydreams. Judging by my previous history classes, all of which had teachers that insisted on making the subject dull, it's hard to say if I would get an A or E because it depends on what sort of work the teacher gave, and, I suppose, luck.
  
  Potions - A, I think I could get it down well enough to get by but it sounds too exacting in its procedures and ingredients that would allow me to actually have my potions turn out like they are supposed to. I really can't be bothered to be all that exact about things. I like being able to experiment and play around.
  
  Transfiguration - E, I would love this course as well, the only thing that might keep me from getting an O is sometimes I'm not always great at concentrating on things, so I may mess up from time to time when trying to change one thing into another. Yet there are days, if I really get into the flow of things, where I would have a hard time to even stop to eat/sleep so as to not break my concentration, but there are other days I'm really easily distracted. My moods can fluctuate a lot which affects what I feel like doing or not doing, so that's probably why. However, I think for the most part I could keep myself well concentrated in this particular subject because I would love it so much. At times, it just may not be strong enough to get the O.
  
  Care of Magical Creatures - E, I absolutely love animals. Hagrid may pick some crazy ones to say the least, but they're still pretty darn cool.
  
  Arithmancy - P, I don't like numbers and numbers don't like me! Math has never been my strong point. It's the only course I completely struggled with in school at least when it got into high school math (especially trigonometry), and I seem particularly hopeless at ever remembering things with numbers in them such as phone numbers or addresses unless I use them often enough. I am just absolutely not a number person. Numbers are evil I tell you.
  
  Ancient Runes - E - I'd love the history and symbolism of this language of magic. It would give a deeper meaning to all the spells and charms that were used in the modern day wizarding world. I may, however, get some things mixed up if my high school Spanish is any indication, but I would do very well nonetheless.
  
  
• If you could have any superpower - but only ONE - what would it be?
  
  Well, technically I'd like two: Shapeshifting and Teleportation, but since the wizarding world already has a few quicker ways of getting around I guess I don't need teleportation as bad now, and so I can say Shapeshifting pretty much for the same reasons as my favorite spell. The difference between this and being an Animagus, is I'd like to be more than one animal. But I could be satisfied if I was only my Animagus form, too. This power would just have extra bonuses to it.
  
  
• What HP character do you identify with most and why?
  
  Lupin, he's underestimated which sometimes I feel I am also, just because we don't exactly per se appear to be particularly strong in any regard. Not many get to know the real me. Also I can see where he's coming from with wanting to be liked by his peers, having been teased relentlessly when I was in middle school and just wanting a couple friends, which thankfully, I at least had that just as he had found Sirius and James. I can also say Neville Longbottom, too, he's like the underdog, and I always feel like the underdog, yet you never can tell what exactly they possess inside of them, even if they are unsure of themselves. Once in awhile we just need someone to help us believe in ourselves.
  
  
• What would you see if you looked into the Mirror of Erised?
  
  I would see a sense of belonging and peace in this vast and seemingly corroding world. Sometimes I feel like I come from another planet, which perhaps is sort of crazy, but I just feel like there's more to life than what we can see, and I guess you could say that's what I wish to find and where I belong. What that is, is something I have yet to truly see. Though this is why I like the night time and the moon and stars so much. It's just something beyond this world that goes into Infinity and truly does give me my own personal peace. Maybe you could say looking up into the sky at night is my Mirror of Erised.
  
  
• If you won a million dollars, how would you spend it?
  
  I would be incredibly thankful for some financial security, so I wouldn't go on a giant spending spree or anything. I'd just save it and use as needed for the most part. I would give some to charities, though, especially to those geared towards helping animals and the Earth.
  
  
• Which HP book is your favorite and why?
  
  It's hard to decide between Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire, although I suppose as a whole it's GoF because this is when it really started becoming incredibly dark and you fully come to realize how serious things are with all that happened at the end. PoA I always loved for the relationships that formed between Harry, Lupin and Sirius, and it was a good story, but GoF really began to set everything up on a grander scale.
  
  
• Which HP book is your least favorite and why?
  
  Order of the Phoenix, it's honestly the only book that got me feeling somewhat bored at a certain point. I still liked it as a whole, but it just felt like it had a bit of information overload and I found myself wanting to get back to a bit more action or character bits insted of exposition. Harry admittedly got on my nerves also, I understand he is growing up and going through the adolescence stage, and on top of that he has a lot on his plate, but I just got tired of reading his raging emotions.
  
  
• What was your ideal job as a kid? Has that changed? What is your ideal job now?
  
  I never knew, and still don't know, what would be ideal for me. I had fleeting thoughts as a kid but nothing really stuck with me, and I didn't really think about it too much besides. As a kid I was always off on some adventure, even if the adventure turned my back yard into a dangerous forest, and I and my brotherly compadres had to find our way through fighting the bad guys. I was an only child and pretty much often left to my own devices, which often were things from my imagination. There are things I like to do, but not as a living even if making a living is a necessary evil. I never wanted to be tied down by a job, especially seeing my father come home from his work every day generally miserable, and I don't want to be another corporate drone. The closest thing to ideal for me would probably be a writer, or at least something in the creative arts.
  
  
• If you were able to invent one spell, potion, or charm, what would it do, what would you use it for or how would you use it, and what would you call it?
  
  I'd like to say I'd want to create something to heal people (mentally and physically), or make the world a better place in general, but I can't honestly believe in creating a practically utopian world where everyone is always happy and healthy. I don't like to see pain, hurt, hatred, or anything of that nature, but I do believe in life's balances. Appreciating the good comes from seeing and dealing with the bad. The problem arises when I feel as if the bad is actually winning against the good. Although what's "bad" and what's "good" is up for interpretation. Nothing is clear cut. But either way, I believe balance is needed.
  
  As such, my spell would be more of practical use for simplifying ever day life: with one wave of the wand and incantation, unsullify, it'd clean a whole entire house. I can't stand cleaning in the least so it would have incredibly good use to me and would help with organizing things. It'd come in handy for a lot of other people, too, I'm sure. For me it'd be a great help because I consider myself a "walking hurricane" with my inability to keep ANYTHING organized. Even the things I've tried to keep organized end up a mess eventually.
  
  
• If you were to face a boggart, what would it turn into? And what does it turn into when you throw the counter-spell, Riddikulus?
  
  My worst fear--that of which is being completely and utterly alone--can't really turn into anything, unless everyone and everything simply disappears around me and I'm in this utter pitch blackness. This is probably the very symbolic image of what Despair for me would look like. To overcome, I would try to bring back some funny memories I've had with my friends/family and then I could feel at home again.
  
  
• What do you look for in a friend?
  
  Trust and loyalty first and foremost. I'd like to be able to have someone to depend on and know they'd always be there. Ideally I'd like to trust them with my life. I do not take my friendships lightly; however, this also causes me to get scared if I feel at all they are the slightest bit pulling away. There have been once really close friends in my life that up and essentially disappeared without a trace, and it hurts me deeply when it's the end. And I do not want a friend who turns their back on you and spills things you told to them in confidence. I do not trust easily as it is. If it gets broken with me it's nearly, if not completely, impossible to get back.
  
  
• What is the one thing you would most like to accomplish?
  
  I will be happy with my life if I just keep living it to the best of my ability, I'm happy with a simple life.
  
  
• What trait most annoys you about other people?
  
  Pettiness, some people care too much about their egos and/or their looks/how others look or so many material goods as if that's all the matters in the world. It seems like there's so much disrespect for each other because so many are so caught up in their own petty issues. We all do this to some extent sure, it is after all human nature, I am just as guilty as anyone, but some people just take these things to extremes. I can't help but wanting to tell some people to just grow up already. There's just a lot more to life than that if you look for it.
  
  
• What do you think are your top five abilities or qualities?
  
  -I'm usually pretty good at seeing different sides of a given situation.
  
  -I practically live inside my head, so I can be imaginative and creative. I'm not afraid to look at the darker side of life, so I sort of am a rather melancholic personality. It's not to say I'm depressed (though I can fall in awful bouts of it), I just see a certain beauty in the darker things like sadness for instance. This tends to influence my creativity. Usually I use it by way of writing, photoshopping, photography.
  
  -I'm incredibly introspective, so I think a lot, and am quite reflective.
  
  -I am usually pretty laid-back and easy going. At least as long as one doesn't cross something that I hold close to my heart. I can hold rather strong opinions on some things, and I love the exchange of opinions as long as it remains respectable and doesn't become personal.
  
  -I am a decent writer.
  
  
• What do you think are your top five weaknesses or worst qualities?
  
  -I hold myself at too high of standards, and inevetibly set myself up for disappointment. In fact, I do this with humanity in general, too.
  
  -I sometimes fall into bad cynicism and pessimism.
  
  -I can be rather lazy, and as such I'm not a real go-getter, though this doesn't entirely bother me since I don't really ask for a lot out of life anyway, but I also realize I don't live up to my potential. I'm a big dreamer, but I don't necessarily feel the need to follow through. It has hindered me, however.
  
  -I am way too sensitive.
  
  -It's hard for me to come out of my shell when around other people; I have to feel very comfortable with them to do so. You could say my introspection is a weak point, too. As such, it's hard for me to make strong friends.
  
  
• Define in your own words the following key traits:
  
  • Courage: There may be things one is afraid of, but courageous folks will do what they must despite that.
    
  • Loyalty: Just being there when needed.
    
  • Intelligence: For me it can be a lot of things, book smarts, street smarts, creative smarts, but I believe the most admirable kind is those who can admit to mistakes and learn from them and simply be a generally respectable person and try to grow into a better one. No we can't achieve perfection to be sure, but I think it's a key point in life to try and better ourselves.
    
  • Ambition: Having the motivation and drive to pursue your hopes and dreams, and letting no opposition hold you back.
    
  
  
• Name: Shawna
  
• Age: 25
  
• What house do you think DOESN'T fit you? (This question is optional for those who feel they just DO NOT fit in a house. Please explain WHY.)
  
• Where did you find out about us? batkisses told me about it.