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--- 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:
>  
> "HERE'S to FIVE more YEARS!"


Alla:

Yay, Happiest Birthday to all of us :-)


>  
> * Name(s).


Alla ( very original, I know :-))


>  
> * 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.

Alla:

Because I am very very bad  with coming up  with interesting names, 
so I just chose my real one.


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

Alla:

Hmm, SO many, since again I am so bad with coming up with them myself.

I think I would love to steal SSSusan( wait, I have to be named Susan 
for that :-)) and maybe "Phoenixgod" too, only I would have to change 
it to Phoenixgoddess, I suppose :-)



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

Alla:

I think I would love to be a mind healer. It seems that there is 
surely a demand for that profession in "potterverse"


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

Alla:

Myself with my family.


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

Alla:

Sorry for sounding trivial, but probably same as Molly's.


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

Alla:

running around my appartment and screaming after I passed the bar 
exam ( I really, really did not think that I would)



>  
> * What form might your Patronus take?

No idea.

>  
> * What might your animagus form be?


Dog most definitely.

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

Books, many many books. 



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

"Black currant".


Professionally - get back to doing political asylum law, although I 
doubt I ever would.




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

PoA, then HBP, then GoF.


>  
> * Who is your favorite character?

I like almost all of them. I used to answer  that my absolute 
favorites are Harry, Sirius, Snape and Lupin.

Harry and Sirius still are. Snape is my favorite villain ( so more 
compelling than Voldemort), but I cannot empathise with him any more 
( with the murder of Albus he overstepped the boundary which made me  
love/hate him and now I simply love to hate him).

Lupin - well, I like him, but I want him to get more space in book 7, 
I really do.

Right, so I think I would put Ron Weasley and Albus Dumbledore as my 
other absolute favorites now.

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

Harry will survive after defeating Voldemort, but not killing him, 
will get married to Ginny and leave happily ever after.

Snape will suffer, REALLY suffer A LOT if JKR decides to let him 
live, but would preferably die ( NOT from Harry's hand, please)

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

Alla:

Well, I do think that Harry's scar may be a last Horcrux, so Harry 
will decide to sacrifice himself, but as SSSusan says at the last 
minute it won't be deemed unecessary ( whether someone will unhorcrux 
him or something like that)

So, even though I think he may die, I do think that he will survive( 
the optimist in me :-))

Oh, and Voldemort will be dead, of course :-)


>  
> * 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*?

Alla:

Not original, But "Hogwarts. A history"

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

Alla:

My computer only allows access to text only version, so.... nothing . 
Alas


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

Alla:

115, I think


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

Alla:

I think in May 2002 and I don't remember how I found us. :-)


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

Alla:
It was scary, really scary, I think it took me almost a year or at 
least few months before I gathered the courage to post.
Cannot find it, but even if I could, I would not, I have a lot of 
insecurities about my writing abilities and think my beginners posts 
were bad, really bad.

I still don't think that they are good now, frankly.



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

Oh, SO many. Can I just point you to some of my favorite writers? Not 
all of them,it is impossible to name all of them, but some. Even this 
is going to be long

So, ANYTHING written by SSSusan ( but Snape is not good - HA! :-)), 
ANYTHING written by Phoenixgod ( except when  he is saying  that 
Ginny is the worst thing ever happen to Harry - just kidding :-))

Nora Renka, Dan, Sherry Gomes, Jen Reese, Geoff Banister.

There are so many brilliant writers on this list, I've learned so 
much from them.

Special mention definitely goes to Potioncat. 

If I am not mistaken, we mostly disagree with Potioncat, but she iss 
such a gifted writer and  such a  gifted debater, that I don't feel 
that I am disagreeing with her at all for the most part.

She is always willing to entertain the other side POV, she is not 
determined to have the last word in the debate and she is SO funny, 
so very funny. I love her. :-)

I also want to mention Severely Siguine brilliant essay 'Snape the 
Riddle". tat is the ONLY sort of good Snape, which makes sense to me.

>  
> * 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...]

Alla:

I've lost my temper couple of times in my earlier days, I definitely 
wish I would not.


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

Nope.


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

Alla:

I have to stare at my computer at least several hours every day, when 
I don't - I spend time with my friends, read a lot and I take latin 
dancing lessons, I also 
travel.


Alla.