Tink-Tink-Tink!

[M.Clifford]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, PenapartElf at a... wrote:
>  
> Dearest Sirs and Misses, 
>  
> Please join your friendly neighborhood List Elves in raising 
> a tankard of butterbeer for a toast in honor of the fifth 
> anniversary of the HPforGrownups Yahoo list, which was opened 
> for business five years ago:

WeLL HAppy Anniversary to all! 

Here's to many more like it ... Clink!

 
> * Name(s).
Valky

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

Valky is shortened Valkyrievixen, which is my handle and I chose it
because... well I just thought it up on the spot, and I liked it.

The Valkyrie are a Norse legend of warrior women, who rode on horses
across the sky, they would fly over battles and take the souls of the
Heroes up to Valhalla. I guess you could say my claim there is that I
can sort the heroes from the rest ;D and I am often found on the list
asserting my Valkyrieness (hehe) 
Vixen I chose because it had a sweet ring on the end of Valkyrie. For
those who need this information a vixen is a femle fox, and the word
fox is often used in english to describe a sassy lady. 


>  
> * Whose signature/handle/moniker/email address at HPfGU 
> (a)  do you wish you had come up with first?

Oh indeed I love ariadnemajic Jen! I have, since I first laid eyes on
it, coveted that name <bg> I'll leave the etymology to jen herself,
and just say I have always aspired to be somewhat of an ariadne
myself, clever girl that one.. 

> (b)  intrigues you?

hmm many many of them have intrigued me, 'nkafikafi' neris handle
intrigues me. I look forward to reading the etymology that goes with that.

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

I would be studying still trying to reach some advanced level of
understanding so I could work in the Department of Mysteries, I just
love research! If you were asking this before the release of OOtP I
would have said hands down I'd have liked to be a curse breaker like
Bill Weasley.


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

It would depend on the day, most usually it would be an answer to some
 mystery troubling my mind at the time. I get a bit obsessive about
that. On a day when I was without a loaded mind it would be me flying.

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

Probably a giant spider, they give me the willies. 

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

Oh the day I found my lost Houseelf of course. <bg> it was pure heck
without her.. ;D

>  
> * What form might your Patronus take?

I always felt strongly about the big cats, Mountain lions especially,
I reckon It would be one of those.

>  
> * What might your animagus form be?

As an animagus I'd like to be something really incredibly agile it
would have to give me freedoms of movement that my human form couldn't
give me a possum possibly, flying fox in particular.

>  
> * What gifts would you register for in Diagon Alley?  Or would 
> it be Knockturn Alley?  How about at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes?

Some of the Fortescues icecream would be nice hehe. And I'd definitely
have something picked out at WWW those boys are so creative and fun,
it would be something fun. 

>  
> * Times being what they are...what is your favorite flavor of 
> jam?  What is your dearest ambition?

I like Blackberry jam some days, but when I am over berries I eat
apricot. My dearest ambition is always and has always been to get Home.

>  
> * Which of the HP books is your favorite?

Half Blood Prince

>  
> * Who is your favorite character?

Harry

>  
> * What do you hope will happen in Book 7?

Harry will survive. 

>  
> * What do you think will happen in Book 7?

Umm some broken Horcruxes, and Harry will find out that scar is a
misnomer for the thing on his head.


>  
> * Given all the books whose titles are canon (see 
> http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/books.html ) which would you 
> read cover to cover *first*?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

>  
> * What's in your Scrapbook for JKRowling.com ?
> (
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/sources/jkr.com/jkr-com-scrapbook.html )

I think, everything so far.. but I could be mistaken. It took me a
while to get around to collecting the picture of Peeves. But I am sure
I have everything at the moment.

>  
> * What's your personal best for Expert Level Minesweeper?

Very very poor. I just stick to intermediate.

>  
> * When did you join HPfGU?  How did you find us?

In 2003 I joined after googling for Harry Potter theories and Rumours,
those were my search terms.

>  
> * Point us to your delurking post...how was that maiden voyage?

I didn't lurk for long. My first post is called I Love THeories and I
was so embarrasingly uninitiated back then..
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/55860


>  
> * Point us to your favorite posts, your own or otherwise.

Hmm I don't think I'll ever forget Talisman's Guilty Dumbledore post.
July 2003 I still think that that one will float all the way home at
least the key points anyway. 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/66983


>  
> * Point us to, in hindsight, what you now wish you'd never said 
> [ex.: ships sunken by new can(n)on, being flagged by LOONs...]

Hmm I've picked occasional fights with the Snapeophiles in the past,
not all of which I m proud of. 


>  
> * Have you been around since August 2000?  What were the hot 
> topics for you personally five years ago, post-GoF?

I haven't been here that long, but my first favourite post GoF topic
was my theory about Cho. It's not worth reading really.. :D 

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

I don't know, I was recently told I come out of left field a lot in
posts, but I have to admit, I think I learned that here I don't recall
bringing it so much. 
Smetimes people are surprised to discover that I am female. ;S


>  
> * Things you do when not staring at the computer:

Study, and child rearing. 


That will do for now, must get on with everything else.. 

bye
Valky