Halloween Mixer

[junediamanti]

> > * Do you believe in ghosts? Why or why not?

No.  At present because I've never seen one.  However, I am prepared 
to be convinced.
>  
> * What things about you often come as a surprise to others?

Dunno - I suspect at my age I'm probably only too predictable.  

>  
> * Provide the etymology of your signature/handle/email address. In 
> other words, how and why did you choose the name you use on the 
> HPfGU lists.

It's my real name.  The surname of which is originally greek, from 
my Grandfather who came from the island of Chios.  The first name is 
NOT because I was born in June because I was born on May 31.  My 
mother didn't fancy the name May so called me by the month when I 
was expected to arrive.

I also post in some places under the Azazello and write fanfic under 
this alias (well it's hardly an alias now - is it June?).  This is 
after a 
character in a book called the Master and Margarita by Mikhail 
Bulgakov.  Azazello is a demon who is a close personal assistant of 
Satan himself.  In the book he bumps people off too.  Make what  you 
will of that.  The original Azazel was the demon who is Lucifer's 
standard bearer.  I find the name a bit cool.


>  
> * Whose signature/handle/email address on the HPfGU boards {a} 
would 
> you like to steal or {b} intrigues you?

Don't know really.  Everyone has a more interesting name than me 
because mine isn't an alias.
>  
> * Describe your ultimate Halloween costume.

I would dress up as Death from the Sandman series.  Partly because 
she's very cute and I'd like to look like that.

>  
> * If you lived in the Potterverse, who would you be, and what 
would 
> you do for a living?

I'd be a very wealthy female dark wizard who had no need whatever to 
work for a living.

>  
> * What would you see in the Mirror of Erised?

Not socks. A smiling bank manager fawning on my every whim.

>  
> * What shape would a boggart take, if you chance upon one?

Sadly, similar to Molly Weasley's.  I found that bit rather 
upsetting because I knew exactly what she might be feeling. 

>  
> * What happy memory will you rely upon, if you are to conjure up a 
> Patronus?

Getting told we had got my daughter into her school of first choice 
in July - she was bullied out of her old one and I almost despaired 
that we'd ever sort that out.


>  
> * What form might your Patronus take?

A fairly impressive big cat - maybe a tiger.
>  
> * What might your animagus form be?

I'd quite like the tiger for that too.

>  
> And here are two more that are already being discussed on the 
list; 
> if you haven't answered them already, you can answer them 
now . . . 
>  
> * What basically harmless things scared you as a child (for 
example, 
> a certain toy or household item)? [Question originally posted by 
> Tracy]

Here's a new squicker I've just remembered.  When I was at school 
aged about 7 we each made our own "Doll's Houses" out of shoeboxes 
and such (pathetic really but we had to make our own amusements when 
I were a kid...) and I made a chest of drawers out of matchboxes.  
The best dolls houses (of which mine was one) were displayed on a 
class room table next to some flowers.  About two weeks later, I 
looked in my chest of drawers and out swarmed the biggest collection 
of baby earwigs you've ever seen.  So I was scared by 

a.  Matchboxes
B.  Dolls houses


>  
> * What's your scariest moment from a film or television show? Or, 
> tell us which horror movie is your all-time favourite, and why. 
> ["Scariest"
> question originally posted by June]

I keep thinking about new things for this too.  There's so many 
scaries and not enough time to detail them all.  Actually one I was 
discussing earlier today comes to mind - Its Alien and not the 
infamous chest burster.  It's the bit where John Hurt leans over the 
alien egg and that horrible icky thing attaches itself to his face.  
Euugh.

It'll probably be another tomorrow - or someone will post a 
different thing and I'll go "Me too!"

>  
>  
> Some other fun things to do (you can post your results along with 
> the answers to your questions):
> 
>As regards sorting - I veer between Slyth and Ravenclaw.  Make of 
that what you will.  

Oh, and I've brought along two of red and two of white - will that 
do and will it be enough?

June