being sorted

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "phoebesophia" 
<phoebesophia at y...> wrote:
> catlady
> woman you rock! thanks so much!

Thank you!

>  i couldn't get the 7dragons site to run for me, but i really 
>  appreciate that you included the questions. 

It should be accessible via http://icehouse.7dragons.net/ 
If you get on the page that begins
"vh.7dragons.net
What It Is, and How It Began
(The Legend)"
and you scroll down past
"What It Is, and How It Began
(The Reality)"
and you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, you should 
find: "Click Here to Get Sorted 
(Yes, it's the original Harry Potter version of the Sorting Hat. Stay 
tuned for an all-new VH version...) "

> and, yes, i'd love to have a conversation about how they correspond 
> to the houses.  

Okay, maybe start at the bottom?

> > 
> > I would rather:
> > ()cook .............................. ()clean
My answer varies according to my mood, as I don't like to do EITHER 
of those things. I don't know what the answers would be supposed to 
mean. Maybe "cook" for creative and "clean" for non-creative? But I 
would have expected creative people in all Houses.

> > ()conquer ........................... ()succeed
I imagine that "conquer" is Slytherin and "succeed" is everyone else. 
Because I imagine that "conquer" is that no one else got what they 
want, while "succeed" is that I got what I wanted, regardless of 
whether anyone else got goodies too.

> > ()put things together ............... ()take things apart

> > ()accept defeat gracefully .......... ()plot my revenge
I imagine that "plot my revenge" is a Slytherin trait. Would it also 
be a Gryffindor trait? 

> > ()play with fingerpaints ............ ()play with building blocks
My answer varies according to my mood, as I don't like to do EITHER
of those things. I wonder if this supposed to distinguish between 
logical (building blocks) and Like-Luna-Lovegood (fingerpaints) 
people? How would that relate to Houses?

> > ()dream ............................. ()imagine
I got into a discussion with a friend about what do "dream" and 
"imagine" even mean. I thought that "dream" was like daydream, 
fantasizing a nice future without any plan of how to get there or 
even if it's possible, and "imagine" was a slightly more realistic 
plan of how to get to that nice future, and my friend thought almost 
exactly the opposite, that "dream" is aiming for your true life goal 
and "imagine" is idle daydreaming.

> > ( take my time on what I'm doing .... ()move along to the next 
thing

> > ()be entertained .................... ()be informed

> > ()write ............................. ()draw

> > ()wash the car ...................... ()do the laundry
I said "do the laundry" because I *do* do my laundry, because it 
is necessary, because I have to have clean clothes to go to work in, 
and I don't wash the car, partly because it's Tim's car and partly 
because it drives just fine dirty. But I don't know what the Sorting 
Hat was getting at with this question. An attempt to find out if 
people would rather be indoors or outdoors? Which wouldn't apply to 
people who do their laundry in a tin tub in the yard.