Anyone Up For A Good Old-Fashioned *Mixer?* (+brisingamen)

[Klara]

Firstly; Annemehr;

Brisingamen is pronounced bree-sing-ah-mehn (long British-like a as in 
*are*, eh should sound like ee in beer) (sorry English phonetics aren't a 
strong side) The stress is on the first i and the last e; br*I*singa-m*E*n. 
Did that make sense?

Secondly; I think perhaps this is my second - perhaps third post here in my 
two years of lurkery. (scary),

Name: Klara
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>
>  Also known as: Mummimamma, Khia, huoletonhulivili, aralklara and some 
> other weird names
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>
>  Age/Sex: 28 & female
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>  Birthplace/Livingplace and feelings about same:
>Bergen, Norway, and quite content. But then Bergen is quite known for it 
>patriots.


>  Family Life: I share appartment with three (male) other students, and 
> they seem to scare away all possible love interests, oddly enough.

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>  Personality: Loudmouthed (everywhere but the 'net obviously), but 
> friendly, a bit histrionic, rather geeky, lazy but manic, optimistic

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>  Words friends have used to describe you: Friendly, know-it-all (yes!), 
> boisterous

>  Words you have used to describe you: Inquisitive

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>  Things you do when not staring at the computer: Talk, read, draw, play 
> in a band, cook, hang around with my friends, saving the world (ie 
> meddling in politics)

>  Comfort foods: Pears and whisky

>  Education/Work: Nine years of university studies, degrees in dead 
> languages and funny alphabets. Finished this summer, looking for work.

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>  Language skills: Norwegian (Danish, Swedish), English, Romance 
> languages, Greek languages, Finnish, meddling in half a dozen more

>
>  Technical know-how: If I need it, I'll learn how to do it.

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>  Favourite HP book: PoA followed by OotP

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>  Favourite HP character(s): I don't know! All of them! Remus Lupin 
> perhaps, I have a weak spot for Hermione of course, and Percy reminded me 
> strangely of my best friend, (and no he is not evil!) complete with red 
> hair, horn-rimmed glasses and fussiness.

>  Favourite HP line: "Before we begin our banquet, I would like to
>say a few words.  And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
>"Thank you!"
>

>  Watching/Avoiding the HP movies?: Watching, and then complaining 
> thery're nothing like the books on these points .... ...

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>  Into HP fanfiction? In the fringes, mostly I read, don't write

>
>  Books you'd recommend to just about anyone: I keep pushing Evelyn 
> Waugh's Brideshead Revisited on almost all of my friends, besides that, 
> usually I recommend the last book I enjoyed; this week Marc Kurlansky's Salt.

>
>  Favorite TV shows:  I tend to forget what I'm watching, currently I'm 
> trying to remember Buffy (we're only on season 5 now) , Angel (S1), Six 
> Feet Under (S1) and Black Books.

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>  Favorite Movies: Underground, Eternity and a Day and other strange films 
> by other odd men.

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>  Favorite Musical Artists: Bach? I listen to lots of stuff, most of it 
> older than me.

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>  One thing about your life you'd change if you could (sorry, but you
>  may not say "lose weight"): I'd like some ambition please, also I'd like 
> a degree in politics, not just languages. And a job.

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>  One thing about your life you wouldn't change even for an advance
>  copy of Book 7: My friends and family of course, or perhaps my entire 
> library.
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>  Philosophy for an easy life: Easy? I'm not sure I want it easy, but 
> keeping an open (and inquisitive) mind have helped so far.
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>  How you found HPfGU: That is lost in the mist of time, but I was 
> probably looking for some sane Potter-discussion whilst awaiting the 
> fifth book.
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>  Active at other HP sites: Lurking around a couple of other places, 
> mainly TLC & FA
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>  Your most rock solid Book 6 or Book 7 prediction: Dumbledore will die, 
> and he's not worried about it, why should we?

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>  Take a moment to wave to members of the fandom you have personally 
> met:  Met? I once told my friends about fandom and they gave me weird 
> looks for weeks!  Also Norway? I know of four other Norwegians or so here.

>  ADD A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN AND ANSWER IT: What would your favourite 
> subject be in Hogwarts? History of Magic, strangely enough. Dumbledore 
> should really get rid of prof Binns though, history is an interesting 
> subject! (and you can learn a lot from it, right, Harry!)

-Puh, still scary. Klara.