Mind control, magical torture, and instant death.
[Nothing to vote on currently, so I'll submit this app first.]
Name: Aoede
Age: 16
Go over here and find the tree that belongs to your birthday. Then scroll down and copy all the characteristics of the corresponding tree here, bolding and/or underlining the ones that apply to you. Feel free to explain if you want to, but it's not required that you do.
"Hornbeam Tree"
The Good Taste - Of cool beauty, cares for its looks and condition, good taste, tends to egoism, makes life as comfortable as possible, leads reasonable, disciplined life, looks for kindness, an emotional partner and acknowledgment, dreams of unusual lovers, is seldom happy with his/her feelings, mistrusts most people, is never sure of its decisions, very conscientious.
What kind of people would you expect to find in each of the four houses?
Gryffindor would have the adamant and the sometimes reckless, people to whom “making a stand” comes naturally. Slytherin would have people whose personal philosophy is best described as a sort of all-encompassing “realpolitik”. Ravenclaw would have brilliance - perhaps studiousness as well, although experience tells me that the two are not always found together. :) Hufflepuff would have the empathetic and the down-to-earth, but it’s possible that the odds and ends also end up here.
What are your thoughts on domestic elves?
If that’s what pleases them, then by all means let them serve. Treat them well, as the Hogwarts elves are treated. I do not understand the nature of servility, but in lieu of understanding, tolerance and respect will suffice. Note that under “respect” I include the right of being treated as one wishes to be treated.
For what reason would you put your name in the Goblet of Fire? (if you would)
I would never put my name in the Goblet of Fire, unless for some unfathomable reason it was the only way to acquire gold, and I had recently gone broke/lost my entire family/had no friends/et cetera.
Your class is going to visit Hogsmeade, but you don’t have the permission to go and there’s no way to get it. What do you do?
Actually, I don’t much care. I’d stay in bed - hurrah! - and scribble a bit, maybe catch up on any random assignments.
If we look at your Pensieve, what would be the most embarrassing moment in it? What would be the happiest one?
Ohgod, the most embarrassing moment. I have so many, it’s impossible to say which would be the most embarrassing! Perhaps that time when I was fourteen, and a girl in my algebra class decided to ship the only two Asian students in the room - myself and a musical/mathematical genius I didn’t know very well - by “asking him out” on my supposed behalf. One of the guys with whom I was friendly thought it was amusing, and told me, upon which I freaked out. Very embarrassingly so. Complete hysteria and so forth. And from that moment on, I knew the genius’s name and avoided him like the plague.
And as for happiest… I really don’t know. I’m always quite happy to be sincerely and spontaneously complimented on my work. Embarrassed, too, but a less awful sort of embarrassment. The problem is, that doesn’t really qualify as a unique, very happy sort of memory - in other words, if I ever meet a dementor, I’m doomed, no matter what "Expecto".
What do you think about non-human creatures as professors? (werewolves, centaurs, etc)
If they can teach well, I don’t think I’d care. I might find myself mentally noting the differences in teaching style or something of the like, but that's more of an individual thing, not so much a species thing, I think.
What would be the first place in Hogwarts that you would go to if you had an invisibility cloak?
Hmm, I really don’t know. I’d probably want to see how people acted when they didn’t know I was watching and listening - but I wouldn’t want to violate their privacy by catching them when they’re alone. Alone is special.
If you saw the Dark Mark in the sky, what would your reaction be?
Whip on the invisibility cloak, grab my notebooks, run like the blazes, and try to contact my friends as well as find out what’s going on as soon as I find a secure hiding place.
If you could only use one of the Unforgivable Curses, which one would it be?
Crucio and Imperio are somehow more horrible than Avada Kedavra. You could Avada Kedavra in self-defense, theoretically, but not the others... I don’t think, anyhow. So no, I have absolutely no wish to control others’ minds, nor to inflict excruciating agony on my fellow humans.
If you had Felix Felicis, would you use it? What for?
The weird confidence that results from taking Felix Felicis rather gives me the creeps. It’s a mood-altering substance! Mein Gott! And besides, it’s illegal to use it for the sorts of dire straits in which I’d need to use something like that.
What were your thoughts when reading about Tom Riddle’s past?
“Cruel fate, why play’st thou with our tangled lives?” In all seriousness, he needn’t have turned out to be a Dark Lord and all the rest. If he’d been given to a good, kind wizarding couple as soon as he was born, I’m sure he would have ended up quite well, maybe even an asset to society, considering his intelligence and ambition.
Quidditch final. If your team wins, you get the cup. If it doesn’t, you’ll be the one to blame. How much would you be willing to do to win?
It would be highly implausible for me to be part of the Quidditch team. I simply have no interest in sporting activities, least of all organized team sports. Nevertheless, if some twist of fate had landed me on the team, I would practice hard in preparation, spend the weeks leading up to the match in a state of wordless apprehension, and brush up on my defensive magic.
Name: Aoede
Age: 16
Go over here and find the tree that belongs to your birthday. Then scroll down and copy all the characteristics of the corresponding tree here, bolding and/or underlining the ones that apply to you. Feel free to explain if you want to, but it's not required that you do.
"Hornbeam Tree"
The Good Taste - Of cool beauty, cares for its looks and condition, good taste, tends to egoism, makes life as comfortable as possible, leads reasonable, disciplined life, looks for kindness, an emotional partner and acknowledgment, dreams of unusual lovers, is seldom happy with his/her feelings, mistrusts most people, is never sure of its decisions, very conscientious.
What kind of people would you expect to find in each of the four houses?
Gryffindor would have the adamant and the sometimes reckless, people to whom “making a stand” comes naturally. Slytherin would have people whose personal philosophy is best described as a sort of all-encompassing “realpolitik”. Ravenclaw would have brilliance - perhaps studiousness as well, although experience tells me that the two are not always found together. :) Hufflepuff would have the empathetic and the down-to-earth, but it’s possible that the odds and ends also end up here.
What are your thoughts on domestic elves?
If that’s what pleases them, then by all means let them serve. Treat them well, as the Hogwarts elves are treated. I do not understand the nature of servility, but in lieu of understanding, tolerance and respect will suffice. Note that under “respect” I include the right of being treated as one wishes to be treated.
For what reason would you put your name in the Goblet of Fire? (if you would)
I would never put my name in the Goblet of Fire, unless for some unfathomable reason it was the only way to acquire gold, and I had recently gone broke/lost my entire family/had no friends/et cetera.
Your class is going to visit Hogsmeade, but you don’t have the permission to go and there’s no way to get it. What do you do?
Actually, I don’t much care. I’d stay in bed - hurrah! - and scribble a bit, maybe catch up on any random assignments.
If we look at your Pensieve, what would be the most embarrassing moment in it? What would be the happiest one?
Ohgod, the most embarrassing moment. I have so many, it’s impossible to say which would be the most embarrassing! Perhaps that time when I was fourteen, and a girl in my algebra class decided to ship the only two Asian students in the room - myself and a musical/mathematical genius I didn’t know very well - by “asking him out” on my supposed behalf. One of the guys with whom I was friendly thought it was amusing, and told me, upon which I freaked out. Very embarrassingly so. Complete hysteria and so forth. And from that moment on, I knew the genius’s name and avoided him like the plague.
And as for happiest… I really don’t know. I’m always quite happy to be sincerely and spontaneously complimented on my work. Embarrassed, too, but a less awful sort of embarrassment. The problem is, that doesn’t really qualify as a unique, very happy sort of memory - in other words, if I ever meet a dementor, I’m doomed, no matter what "Expecto".
What do you think about non-human creatures as professors? (werewolves, centaurs, etc)
If they can teach well, I don’t think I’d care. I might find myself mentally noting the differences in teaching style or something of the like, but that's more of an individual thing, not so much a species thing, I think.
What would be the first place in Hogwarts that you would go to if you had an invisibility cloak?
Hmm, I really don’t know. I’d probably want to see how people acted when they didn’t know I was watching and listening - but I wouldn’t want to violate their privacy by catching them when they’re alone. Alone is special.
If you saw the Dark Mark in the sky, what would your reaction be?
Whip on the invisibility cloak, grab my notebooks, run like the blazes, and try to contact my friends as well as find out what’s going on as soon as I find a secure hiding place.
If you could only use one of the Unforgivable Curses, which one would it be?
Crucio and Imperio are somehow more horrible than Avada Kedavra. You could Avada Kedavra in self-defense, theoretically, but not the others... I don’t think, anyhow. So no, I have absolutely no wish to control others’ minds, nor to inflict excruciating agony on my fellow humans.
If you had Felix Felicis, would you use it? What for?
The weird confidence that results from taking Felix Felicis rather gives me the creeps. It’s a mood-altering substance! Mein Gott! And besides, it’s illegal to use it for the sorts of dire straits in which I’d need to use something like that.
What were your thoughts when reading about Tom Riddle’s past?
“Cruel fate, why play’st thou with our tangled lives?” In all seriousness, he needn’t have turned out to be a Dark Lord and all the rest. If he’d been given to a good, kind wizarding couple as soon as he was born, I’m sure he would have ended up quite well, maybe even an asset to society, considering his intelligence and ambition.
Quidditch final. If your team wins, you get the cup. If it doesn’t, you’ll be the one to blame. How much would you be willing to do to win?
It would be highly implausible for me to be part of the Quidditch team. I simply have no interest in sporting activities, least of all organized team sports. Nevertheless, if some twist of fate had landed me on the team, I would practice hard in preparation, spend the weeks leading up to the match in a state of wordless apprehension, and brush up on my defensive magic.