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[cdayr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, PenapartElf at a... 
wrote:
 
> "HERE'S to FIVE more YEARS!"

CDR now:

Cheers, HPfGU! (sipping butterbeer) This should be fun!

My name is Celia, although my screen name is cdayr and I've 
signed all my posts as CDR, which are (surprise!) my initials. I 
had a burst of supreme uncreativity when it came to signing my 
first post. What a shame. I've since looked on Potioncat's 
signature with admiration, always admired Kneasy as a fab 
name as well, and Siriusly Snapey Susan- I love a pun. I guess 
I'll have to put up with just being me.

If I lived in the Potterverse I would likely be exactly what I am in 
RL, a teacher. I'd request that I work primarily with the first
and 
second years, as my area of interest lies with that age group. I 
suspect I would be continue to be quite a nerd about Astronomy, 
so perhaps I could teach that, or maybe Ancient Runes or 
Arithmancy. What I'd really like to do is bring a little art and 
literature into these young wizards lives- so much study without 
much beauty! But I'll settle. Alternatively, I'd work at
Flourish and 
Blott's as a bookseller.

Ooo, can any of us really know what we'd see in the Mirror of 
Erised? That would be some deep self-knowledge. I'll guess
I'd 
see something in the way of me amongst a group of friends and 
family, feeling content and at peace. Boring, but true. Or me 
winning an Oscar. Or going to the moon. One of those.

My boggart
well, it might turn into a few students I've had
over 
the years (kidding!). So many of the things I am afraid of are 
ideas rather than physical things (i.e. being locked in a 
windowless room, eaten by bear, etc) I am very afraid of axes, so 
maybe it would turn into one?

My patronus would be strongest if I thought to some of my 
memories of being out in the backcountry, hiking and being in 
the amazing wilderness of the western US. Perhaps the moment 
I reached the crest of a moraine and looked down on my first 
glacier, after hiking a torturous two days with my husband, and 
just crying at the beauty. That would probably work.

My patronus would be
ummm
my protective turtle? I've
never 
thought about this one. 

As an animagus, I would be some sort of bird, I'm thinking heron 
or egret- long legged and goofy looking, but graceful when flying 
and pretty smart.

What wouldn't I want in Diagon Alley? Sign me up for a wand! 

Times being what they are
 I love blackberry jam. I love most 
berry jams actually. 

I have many ambitions: become a principal, touch the 
Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, see an erupting volcano, read 
every Dickens novel, have a family, summit a mountain, have 
life-long friends, make a feature film, oh I can go on forever


In HP book-land: My favorite book is GOF with POA and HBP in 
close contention for second. I am a huge fan of Lupin, pre-Tonks 
and out of the closet, but I currently, like us all, am obsessed 
with what an amazing character Snape is, and Lupin had better 
do something pretty darn great in book 7 to win me back. I'm
still 
in such a muddle about what happened in HBP that I still haven't 
posted about it- I will eventually.

I joined HPfGU in summer of 2004, after a crazy evening 
discovering the world of HP on-line. I am still very proud of my 
first post #106761, even though it is just junk now (some 
complicated thing about Hagrid and eggs he hatches and 
Aragog being used like Norbert to get info for Voldy) but I thought 
about it a ton and am still proud of the idea. I regret a moment of 
madness while in denial about Sirius when I accused 
Dumbledore of firing the fatal shot at him in the MoM. (I was 
grieving, give me a break.) 

One of my favorite posts I've ever read here is still the idea
that 
Petunia was born on February 29 and will finally have her 11th 
birthday and be invited to Hogwarts. I wish I remembered whose 
idea that was so I could point to a post and credit you, but it 
remains brilliant. 

In my non-HP life, I'm quite artsy-crafty (lately it's been
mosaics 
and stained glass) and I read all the time. I teach science and 
math (and other things) at an elementary school. I'm married 
and have a very fat and noisy cat. I love geology and 
paleontology, I'm an occasional actor, and work on art films 
some with my hubby. I like shopping at Ikea. I want to go to 
Iceland. I'm an INFP, would be sorted into Ravenclaw, and would 
get stuck listening to Trelawney babble on and on because I'd 
be too nice to walk away.

But enough about me
how are you?

-CDR