A little Orwell and a W.O.M.B.A.T.
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
-George Orwell, The Freedom of the Press
I found that quote today flipping through a book at Barnes and Noble. I thought it was cool...
Today, I took my W.O.M.B.A.T. Some people are taking ACTs or SATs, and I took the W.O.M.B.A.T. It's a test you can take on jkrowling.com about Harry Potter-verse (think O.W.L. or N.E.W.T., but we Muggles can take it). My mom was the one who found it (not me, I swear!); she wanted to see what would happen if you took the test but didn't want to take it herself, so she told me how to get at it and sat in my room while I took it. It's a 35-minute test over mostly stuff that you won't know even if you've read the books. There's a whole section matching Ministers of Magic to the great catastrophe of their career, a couple of questions on the goblin rebellions, and generally a lot of things you just have to make educated guesses on. I don't know how I did yet; it takes a couple of days for the "Ministry" to score your answers and then you can get your marks and see if you passed or not. I'm thinking there's a good chance I failed. If you'd like to possibly fail it, too, just go to her website and click on the eraser. You have to do some other nonsense to get at the W.O.M.B.A.T., but just click around in that room and you should figure it out pretty quickly.
-George Orwell, The Freedom of the Press
I found that quote today flipping through a book at Barnes and Noble. I thought it was cool...
Today, I took my W.O.M.B.A.T. Some people are taking ACTs or SATs, and I took the W.O.M.B.A.T. It's a test you can take on jkrowling.com about Harry Potter-verse (think O.W.L. or N.E.W.T., but we Muggles can take it). My mom was the one who found it (not me, I swear!); she wanted to see what would happen if you took the test but didn't want to take it herself, so she told me how to get at it and sat in my room while I took it. It's a 35-minute test over mostly stuff that you won't know even if you've read the books. There's a whole section matching Ministers of Magic to the great catastrophe of their career, a couple of questions on the goblin rebellions, and generally a lot of things you just have to make educated guesses on. I don't know how I did yet; it takes a couple of days for the "Ministry" to score your answers and then you can get your marks and see if you passed or not. I'm thinking there's a good chance I failed. If you'd like to possibly fail it, too, just go to her website and click on the eraser. You have to do some other nonsense to get at the W.O.M.B.A.T., but just click around in that room and you should figure it out pretty quickly.