Harr Potter Challenge: Day 27

Would you rather own the Invisibility Cloak, the Resurrection Stone, or the Elder Wand?

The Invisibility Cloak. No one can ever see you! Think of all the things you could do with that!

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 26

If you were able to use one spell without a wand, what would it be?

Accio wand.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 25

Are you satisfied with the epilogue?

Mmm... what can I say... a bit too cheesy, but it's nice to know that everyone earned their happy ending. So no, but yes.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 24

Any particular scene you wished was in one of the films but wasn't:

All of Ron's brilliant moments. The movies make him seem dumb. Or the Sneakoscope moving in Moody's office in book 4 - it's brilliant! Or that running gag in book 1, when George promises to take home a lavatory seat from Hogwarts and then sends it to Harry.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 23

Any/all parts of the boks/films that makes you cry:

Fred's death -but that has been covered.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

"After all this time?" "Always."

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 22

Pick one: Harry Potter or Twilight

ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?

HARRY POTTER!

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 21

If you could bring one of the characters back to life, who would you choose?

Fred Weasley. For me, Cedric's death was sad, Sirius' death was terrible, Dumbledore's death was devastating... but not one of all the Harry Potter deaths has been as devastating as Fred's for me.

What makes this so horrible is the fact that he was a twin. Twins have an odd conection to each other. One of my favourite books is The Secret Life of Bees. In this book, there is one character called May, who gets altered rather easily. It is later revealed that she had a twin, called April, who killed herself when she was eight. Since then, May can feel her pain.

Notice that Fred is a nice guy, but somewhat cruel. He makes fun of his brothers and almost made Ron make an Unbreakable vow - granted, he was seven. But when George is attacked, he goes completely out of character.

See this from George's point of view. George is definitely nicer than Fred. He is much less likely to make fun of Percy or Ron, and he's the first one to worry about the family issues. According to Rowling, his boggart is actually Fred's dead body, and so is Molly's, which means their worst fear became true. Not only that, but every time he looks in the mirror, he sees his dead brother. Every mirror is a Mirror of Erised for him. It's even worse if you considered that, by the end of the books, one of the Weasleys is dead, another is a half werewolf and a third one is missing an ear. Poor Weasleys.

Consider how it happens: Ron, Fre, Percy and Harry are battling. They get rid of the Death Eaters, then Percy makes a joke. Fred and Percy finally make up, and then the wall falls, which leads us to think Percy's dead, because Redemption Equals Death. And then - it's Fred.

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind wsa in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossibility, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying-

Fred Weasley is the last person you would expect to die. Death is sad, and he is the opposite of sadness. See, this is the top reason why I like Harry Potter so much better than Twilight. In Twilight, you never see any of the main characters die. In Harry Potter, characters you've begun to love meet their end, because it's a war and war is unfair. As you can see by the subtle foreshadowing Mrs. Rowling is so good at, his death was planned from the beginning (i.e., he was singing a funeral song one time, and Molly told him in book 4 that she wouldn't stand the thought of him dying), and she still let us grow a fondness for the guy. Praise Fred! He's so awesome he's Neville's boggart!

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 20

If you could meet one member of the cast, who would it be?

TOM FELTON!!!!!!!1!!1! (drools)

No, siriusly, it's gotta be Alan Rickman. He, like Tom Felton, is one example of Mean Character, Nice Actor, as seen in André the Giant or Neil Patrick Harris, which is something I love. And I want him to read a poem with that sexy voice of him.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 19

Do you prefer the books or the films?

Hahahahahahaha, that's a very good one.

Wait...

You serious? (No, I'm Severus.)

The books, please. The books. If I get one more idiot who hasn't read them and thinks that Snape is Harry's father..

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 18

Your least favourite of the 7 books

Order Of The Phoenix. Siriusly, Umbridge is the most annoying thing I've ever seen, Cho and Harry are the world's worst couple, and SIRIUS! Exclamation sign! Exclamation sign! One! Exclamation sign! :( You've probably realized that I've thoroughly changed the word serious in this blog for sirius.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 17

What would your wand be made of?

I took a test to see what my wand would be made of. Behold:

Length: 11 1/2 inches. Most wands will be in the range of between nine and fourteen inches. While I have sold extremely short wands (eight inches and under) and very long wands (over fifteen inches), these are exceptionally rare. In the latter case, a physical peculiarity demanded the excessive wand length. However, abnormally short wands usually select those in whose character something is lacking, rather than because they are physically undersized (many small witches and wizards are chosen by longer wands). Which means my personality is kind of weak, but I can be strong if  need to.

Wood: Acacia. Acacia is a kind of wood which only serves those who are truly gifted.

Core: Dragon. Powerful and temperamental.

Flexibility: Quite flexible. Wand flexibility or rigidity denotes the degree of adaptability and willingness to change possessed by the wand-and-owner pair - although, again, this factor ought not to be considered separately from the wand wood, core and length, nor of the owner’s life experience and style of magic, all of which will combine to make the wand in question unique.

See, this is what I love about Rowling. Her world is so consistant. Take a look at Voldy's own wand: 13 1/2 inches, yew, phoenix feather. Which makes him a man with a very strong personality, unusual and notorious, obsessed with life and death, dark, and with initiative. That does sound like Voldy, doesn't it?

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 16

Your favourite professor

Professor Snape. Of course, he wouldn't be any fun as a teacher if I was Harry or Neville, but I'm not either of them, and, really, he's hilarious and an excelent potions maker. Actually, when you think about it, he really wasn't that bad to Harry. When you reread the books with his perspective, you realize that most of the mean things he did were to protect the children. For example, in book 3, when he went to face a werewolf and a - supposedly - Death Eater because he thought they were in danger. He is, as Harry puts it, "the bravest man I've ever known".

Snape did not live a happy life: he lived in an abusive household and had no friends besides Lilly. He joined Slytherin and embraced those who would later become the Death Eaters - all because he wanted to feel accepted. He, and only he, was responsible for the loss of Lily, and he could never live with that -  but he had to live, to protect an irresponsible boy who's the spitting image of his father.

'After all this time?'

'Always,' said Snape.

Random unrequited fact: I have the lyrics of Always by Bon Jovi tatooed on my left shoulder. This is not only to show how much I love Bon Jovi, but also Harry Potter. As it turns out, the lyrics of the song fit perfectly for Snape, as if it had been written for him.

Like the Romeo from the song, Snape bleeds on the inside; since Lilly left, he's been drowning in a (metaphorical) flood - he's always been a fighter, but without Lilly he can't live. He will always love Lilly, forever and a day, always. Snape's memories in the pensieve show something that made them laugh, something that made them cry, and something that made her say goodbye. Of course, he respects Lily's decision, but he wants her to understand that he made mistakes because  he's just a man. When he sees James holding Lilly, he wishes it was him, for he will always love her. He's able to cry for her - he would die for her - or her son, in this case. There's no price he wouldn't pay to tell her that he'll love her 'till the stars don't shine, 'till the heavens burst and the words don't rhyme... and when he dies, she's the last thought on his mind.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 15

Who would be your best friends at Hogwarts? (up to three)

Luna, Neville - yes, I like losers - and George.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 14

[Insert random joke about Voldemort being too nosy here.]

Pick one: Team Voldemort or Team Harry

Team Harry. How stupid is Voldemort? He could just make his Horcrux with ordinary objects that no one would suspect of, and hide them in a safe place; instead, he just makes them really obvious. His obsession with killing Harry Potter himself is ridiculous; Harry Potter would have been dead by book five if he'd only left the Death Eaters kill him. And who the hell puts a part of his soul in a snake?

Plus, in the movie he looks like a pedophile. See the picture: it's from Harry Potter and the Year Nobody Got a haircut, and Voldemort does this at a bondaged fourteen-year-old:

I can touch you now! Nyeah-hehe-hehe! (inserts middle finger in Harry's nostril) Ahhhh yeah! (rape face)

And what's up with him molesting Draco and making orgasm noises?

M-My Lord? Is that the Elder Wand in your pocked.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 13

Your least favourite one of the movies so far

I like every single one of them. I'm sorry.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 12

RON: Hermione, how many bones are there
in the human body?
HERMIONE: 206, why?
RON: Do you want one more?
HERMIONE: o.O

Your favourite pairing

Ron and Hermione. They make such a cute couple! When  they first meet, they don't exactly like each other; but Ron saves Hermione's life, which causes them to become friends. By the second book, Ron is ready to curse Malfoy when he calls Hermione a mudblood - too bad his spell backfires.

By the fourth book, Ron's infamous jealousy begins, when he realizes that Hermione's a girl - hey, well spotted, Weasley! - and starts disliking Krum. In the sixth book, the Unresolved Sexual Tension becomes unbearable... and well, then there's the Big Damn Kiss in the seventh book.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 11

The character you relate to the most

Neville Longgbottom. Aside from the evident gender difference, we're both quite similar in our unluckiness. I am one of the unluckiest people you will ever meet. I'll lose the bus periodically, especially if I'm in a hurry or am wearing high heels. I haven't had a decent birthday  in years. And so on.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 10

Pick one: Horcruxes or Hallows?

On the other hand, I find noses a bit too overrated.

Are you serious sirius? You're actually asking me if I'd rather own the most powerful wand in the world, an invisibility cloak, and be the master of death, or divide my own soul, become ugly and lose my cute little nose?

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 9

Your least favourite male character and why

Hell, I don't know. Even the 'evil' characters, such as Voldy or Malfoy, have something lovable. So I think, Filch? I don't know. He looks gross.

Harry Potter Challenge: Day 8

What do you think would be your favourite subject at Hogwarts?

Happy New Year! As the interpreter I am, it seems obvious, doesn't it? Runes.

You see, I am amazingly gifted in languages. It is, in fact, mostly the only thing I'm good at, and I love it.