[HPFGU-OTChatter] Anyone Up For A Good Old-Fashioned *Mixer?*

[Morgan D.]

> Subject: Anyone Up For A Good Old-Fashioned *Mixer?*
>
> Real name:

Not telling, sorry. Constant vigilance, you know. 

> Also known as:

Morgan D.

> Age/Sex:

30/F

> Birthplace/Livingplace:

Brazil South/Brazil Southeast. 

> Family Life:

Single, sharing a house with my sister after my parents moved out ^__^
Yeah, we kinda inverted the usual pattern.

>Personality:

Unique. ^_~

>Words friends have used to describe you:

Opinionated, articulate, affectionate, bad loser, holds grudges for
years.

>Words you have used to describe you:

Too honest for my own good, nonsensical, too clinging and dependent,
awful loser, and what do you mean by "forgive and forget"?

>Things you do when not staring at the computer:

Sing with a madrigal, sing by myself, watch anime, read manga, write
(fanfiction, essays, a novel that will take a decade to be
finished...).

>Comfort foods:

Croissants, peach juice, hot chocolate, ice cream, brigadeiros
(Brazilian sweet)

>Education/Work:

Graduated in Cinema. Working as webdesigner. 

>Language skills

Portuguese (first language)
English
French
Spanish (because it's very similar to Portuguese, I have no problem
understanding it, but I can't speak or write in it)
Japanese (studying seriously since 2001)

>Technical know-how:

I can weld a wire and change a tyre if I need to. And I can cook and
sew and make tapestries... ^__^

>Favourite HP book:

GoF. I have to say I find PoA much more carefully constructed and
undoubtedly the best in literary terms. But I'm very fond of GoF
because it was the only one of the series I completely failed to guess
the plot, the only one that actually had me gaping at the end and
mumbling, "Oh my, I didn't even come close!"

>Favourite HP character(s):

SIRIUS BLACK!!!!!!
Followed by Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, and Pigwidgeon. 

>Favourite HP line

"Oh, he's not unbalanced. He's just suffered a severe disappointment."

>Watching/Avoiding the HP movies?:

Watching, not liking them, but then I've always despised Chris
Columbus' works. I'm looking forward checking Cuarn's input.

>Into HP fanfiction?

Definitely. 
As a reader, I keep desperately looking for good fics portraying Sirius
and Harry's parent/child relationship -- it's *really* hard to find
any. (And OotP made the search even more complicated now.)
As a writer, I'm one of the minds behind the Hogwarts Letters project
(fanfiction composed of letters exchanged between several characters),
and I'm also writing a Alternative Universe called the "Haphazard
Patchwork". 

>Books you'd recommend to just about anyone:

Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. 

>Favorite TV shows?

"Quantum Leap". And anime, lots and lots of anime.

>Favorite movies:

The "Star Wars" original trilogy, Milos Forman's "Amadeus", Yasujiro
Ozu's "Ohayou", Sidney Lumet's "Twelve Angry Men" and "Deathtrap", Nick
Park's "The Wrong Trousers".

> Favorite Musical Artists:

Monteverdi, John Denver, Cyndi Lauper, Kurt Ohlman, Engenheiros do
Hawaii. (Good luck figuring what the hell they have in common... o.o)

>One thing about your life you'd change if you could  you may not 
>say "lose weight."

I'd spend all my days writing and singing, not caring about ridiculous
stuff like working and making money... 

>One thing about your life you wouldn't change even for an advance 
>copy of Book 7:

Just one? Hmmm... My goose-feathered quilt. 
Actually, I *don't* want an advance copy of Book 7 at all. It's
upsetting enough to know I'll have to read it when it comes, so why
hurry the bad things?
 
>Philosophy for an easy life:

When you give someone a hug, make it warm and tight; when you give
someone a kiss, make it sweet and scorching; when you give someone a
kick in the arse, use your hardest boot, with poisoned steel thorns on
the toe. 

>How you found HPfGU:

Through my sister, who stumbled on the Fantastic Posts page while
looking for info about Snape. 

>Active at other HP sites:

Hogwarts Letters.

> Your most rock solid Book 6 or Book 7 prediction:

JKR won't be able to fill not even half of the plot holes she's left
behind, and will create others to replace the ones she does fix.

> Take a moment to wave to members of the fandom you have personally
> met:

The few ones I've met personally aren't in this list. -_-

> ADD A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN AND ANSWER IT:

<Did you try to resist the HP fever at first, wondering why people were
making such a fuss about a bunch of kiddie books?>

Yep. I was utterly *shocked* when my mother said she'd like to get the
HP books for Christmas in 2001. My own mother, giving in to this
pathetic fad... Horror of horrors... 

And since some of the other members' questions were very interesting: 

> Which fictional character would you most like to meet and why? 

Albus Dumbledore, so we could have a loooooong talk about ethics.

> What would you see, looking into the Mirror of Erised:  

My parents looking healthy and happy even as 150 years old. 

> What animal would you be if you were an animagus??  

A nightingale.

> Who are you most jealous of from the Potterverse? 

Blaise Zabini. Doesn't do a thing but is famous nonetheless.

>   If you had a job in the wizarding world, what would it be?

I'd write to the Quibbler. 

> What character do you think you resemble most?

Hedwig.

>  If I was a magical beast, what beast would it be?

A runespoor.


Morgan D.
Hogwarts Letters - http://www.hogwartsletters.hpg.com.br

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