[HPFGU-OTChatter] More Halloween Fun!

[Morgan D.]

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

I neither believe nor disbelieve their existence. Never seen one. That
doesn't mean they're not out there.


> * What things about you often come as a surprise to others?

I write slash fanfiction since 1984. And I was a homophobic then. 
I can hardly get people who know me to believe one or the other
statement, but getting them to believe both... They're truth, though.


> * 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.

Morgan D. is the name I've been signing my fanfiction since 1998. It's
both a reference to "Mists of Avalon" and a horrible pun that only
makes sense in Portuguese. 

My yahoo ID (morgan_d_yyh) was the subdomain name of my site on the Yu
Yu Hakusho anime back when it was hosted by Geocities. 


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

Gail's "klyanthea" intrigues me. 


> * Describe your ultimate Halloween costume.

Yue. This is how he looks like:
http://www.solitudeofafallingstar.hpg.com.br/inevitable/art/anita4.jpg


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

I'd be the author of "The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle"
comics.


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

Myself at seventy, and my parents beside me, looking healthy and happy.


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

A ringing telephone.


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

The night when I was singing "I Will" to a boyfriend who was very
mindful of his macho faade; he asked me with a hoarse whisper,
"Please, don't do that. You'll make me cry." Best compliment I've ever
got.


> * What form might your Patronus take?

Yue, the Moon Guardian, with his magical arrow. ^__^


> * What might your animagus form be?

A nightingale.


> * What basically harmless things scared you as a child (for example, 
> a certain toy or household item)? 

A vase my parents got as their wedding gift. Once when I was a kid, I
was playing near the table where the vase was, and my mother told me,
rather vehemently, "Don't you dare break that vase, it's expensive!" My
mother was never the one to yell or fret about minor things, so I
became horribly afraid that something would ever happen to that vase. I
still fear it, as a matter of fact. I'm afrad to touch it, and I hide
it if there are children or notoriously clumsy people in the house. A
few years ago my mother told me the vase isn't expensive at all, and
that she really won't be that upset if it breaks, but I still fear the
damn thing as if the world would collapse the day I find a minor crack
in it.


> * What's your scariest moment from a film or television show? Or, 
> tell us which horror movie is your all-time favourite, and why. 

"Jaws". After seeing it, I spent a whole month fantasising that my bed
was a boat, and fearing I'd let a leg or arm slip off the matress in my
sleep and a shark would come swimming (through the floor?) and bite it
off. 

Talk about *irrational* childhood fears...


> * Ever wonder into which Hogwarts House the Sorting Hat would put 
> you? 

Every single "Sorting Hat" I've found in the web places me in
Ravenclaw. They actually laught at me if I suggest something else.


> * Is your interest in Harry Potter just good, harmless fun . . . or 
> are you bordering on obsessive? 

41% obsessed
(Curiously, I remember going through the same text before and getting
only 27%; I guess it was before I started writing HP fanfiction.)


> * Speaking of your interest in Harry Potter, you can share all the 
> details by posting your own Harry Potter Geek Code. 

I wanted to create one, but their server seems to be temporarily down.


> * Finally, just how well do you know the canon? 

I took the Scholastic's Harry Potter Wizard Challenge in June, and I
got 286 points.


Morgan D.
Hogwarts Letters - http://destinystruth.net/hotgwarts

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