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E. W. and I have started reading the Harry Potter series. I'm a little over half-way done with the 1st book. Elizabeth was in the fourth book last time I checked (she started reading them a week ago. I wonder if she even eats.). So far it's really good! It's right up there with the Inheritance series (no comments please)! What do you guys think is the best book? What house do you think you should be in. I'm probably Hufflepuff. I would've posted on the other Harry Potter blog but nobody would see my post because it's so crammed.
submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Colorado
(March 19, 2010 - 3:00 pm)
(March 19, 2010 - 3:00 pm)
Welcome back!
Maybe she reads while she eats. I do, and, like her, I would probably be in the 4th book by the time a week had passed. Or maybe I'd be on book 5 by then; I don't know.
She probably doesn't, though. I'm the only person I know who does, and besides, chances are, you'd notice if she did that sort of thing.
Hm... The best book? I'm not sure; they're all pretty amazing. Maybe, though, if I had to choose, I'd say the 3rd book.
I think I'd be in Ravenclaw. I'd definitely prefer to be there, anyway. If I couldn't be in that House, though, Gryffindor and Hufflepuff don't sound too bad either. I'd probably end up in Hufflepuff if I didn't get into Ravenclaw, since I'm definitely more fair, loyal, et cetera than I am brave, even though I think I'd prefer Gyffindor, but that would still be all right. The only house I couldn't bear to be in would be Slytherin, but I seriously doubt I would be placed there.
(March 19, 2010 - 10:48 pm)
I read all the time while I eat! I thought everyone did! In fact, I find eating really super boring if I'm not reading while doing it. This has also resulted in a lot of stained clothing though. Especially one time when I was completely absorbed in a book and I happened to glance up to get another forkful of spaghetti, when I saw the biggest bug I have ever seen in my whole entire long life of nearly 14 years. It was an enormous preying mantis. I spilled spaghetti sauce all over me. I think I was like 7 at the time. I was quite distraught. I think I even wrote a heart wrenching poem about the whole dreadful experience. It was rather dreadful.I mean, it was a shock! I am now reverent in the company of a preying mantis.
Yes, praying mantises give this particular Admin the heebie jeebies. I completely sympathize.
Admin
(March 27, 2010 - 5:35 pm)
I had a praying Mantis bight my mom on the head once, it drew blood.
(March 28, 2010 - 8:10 am)
I also read while I eat, sometimes.
(July 10, 2010 - 11:00 am)
I am definetley in Ravenclaw, no doubts. I hope this does not annoy you, Ravenclaw might have been Ravenpaw's warrior name. I like The Prisoner of Azkaban the most.
(March 19, 2010 - 10:55 pm)
I doubt it. Ravenclaw doesn't really seem to suit him, you know? He's more of a Ravenfur kind of cat, and Bluestar is pretty good at choosing warrior names.
(April 3, 2010 - 6:03 pm)
I think the best book in the Harry Potter series is The Order of the Phoenix. I think I would be in either Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Are you and E.W. sisters or friends?
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(March 20, 2010 - 7:46 pm)
Friends.
(March 24, 2010 - 8:18 pm)
Um, I guess Sorcerer's Stone was the best, but they were all amazing. I'd like to be put in Ravenclaw.
(March 23, 2010 - 7:58 pm)
So... I have kind of a random question at a random time, but... can someone tell me when Voldy was explicitly described as bald? Because I always, always have imagined him with hair, but he's bald in the movies and drawings and basically everywhere else, so obviously I missed it sometime. And having been through the series about... three times, I think, including DH, I honestly am never able to remember the passage which says he most definitely does not have hair.
And it's been bothering me lately, because I feel like I've missed something excruciatingly obvious, so now I'm asking and expecting that it'll probably be totally obvious and I'm just blind or something.
Yeah.
I have spent a disgusting amount of time wondering about this, by the way. Like a week. *is ashamed of obsessiveness*
(March 25, 2010 - 4:32 pm)
Thanks... Now that you mention it and I flip through #4 and find nothing regarding Voldy's hair or lack thereof, I'm going to be driving myself crazy all week too. >.<
(March 25, 2010 - 5:25 pm)
Yes! I know! I always imagined him with hair (and eyebrows) and then I went and saw GoF and was like "wait... What?"
And I've been thinking about it recently because of Sims, because I finally (finally!!) got bodyshop working again and as such am in the process of remaking him with a better nose (read: one that actually looks the way it is described in the books, because bodyshop has more facial sliders). Regardless, the point being, he doesn't look right without hair.
It was a real pain during the HPRP because I kept having to stop myself describing him brushing hair out of his face or what-have-you.
Passages in which we see him described in GoF:
"...dark outline of a man, tall and skeletally thin..."
"...the face that had haunted his nightmares for three years. Whiter than a skull, with wide, livid scarlet eyes and a nose that was flat as a snake's with slits for nostrils..."
"His hands were like large, pale spiders; his long white fingers caressed his own chest, his arms, his face; the red eyes, whose pupils were slits, like a cat's, gleamed still more brightly through the darkness."
Never once says anything about him not having hair. And as Tom Riddle he is described as having black hair, so that's how I've always imagined him.
You know. With hair. And eyebrows.
But everywhere else on teh Internetz seems to have gotten the message that he doesn't have hair or eyebrows. And I want to know why! (and now you do too, ahahaha.)
I suppose it makes sense for him to be resurrected or whatever without any hair. I mean... a hand, and some blood, and bone dust, and a magic potion... But there isn't any reason for it not to grow back.
/rant
(March 25, 2010 - 10:21 pm)
@TNO/Mary W.: It's funny...it never does describe him as being bald, exactly, but I find it very difficult to imagine him with hair. I think it might in GoF, but I'm not...sure.
Now look what you've done! >.<
@Ima: I read while I eat! And doing pretty much everything else, too, so...
Andy P. C. says oedb.
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(March 25, 2010 - 10:32 pm)
(("Prepare to be drained of all individuality and spirit." "...Yep. Highschool."))
I think maybe the confusion arises from his face being described as skull-like and I'm fairly certain the gross demon baby form doesn't have hair (I personally imagine him being a bit... slimy... at that point), but there's no reason for that to continue after the resurrection.
On the other hand, I've never seen a picture/read a fic in which he has hair, and he's certainly bald (and not tall enough by half!) in the movies. So clearly I missed something.
Might it have been in OotP or DH? Or just implied and I'm thick enough to have missed something obvious?
On a slightly more sadistic note: AHAHAHA! NOW YOU HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH THE MIND VIRUS OF "Does He Have Hair Or Not?" TOO!!! MWAH HAHAHAHA!
(March 26, 2010 - 10:49 am)
I can't recall an exact passage that describes him without hair, but it does come up several times that he has "a snakelike face" and "a skull-like countenance", so maybe that was just generally interpreted as bald.
Personally, I've always pictured him with minimal dark hair--not a super-thick mop or anything but more of a thinning memory of the dashingly handsome head of hair he once had. And I'm totally with TNÖ as to him not being nearly tall enough in the movies.
Spam says "pure". Not very tasteful for a discussion about Voldy.
(March 26, 2010 - 3:33 pm)