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[Deb]

 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!"
>  
> Grab the libation of your choice [butterbeer, chilled or hot 
> and foamy; pumpkin juice; hot chocolate; tea (jasmine, oolong, 
> white, chai, and even iced but no tea bags, thankyouverymuch); 
> gillywater; cherry syrup and soda, on rocks; elderflower wine; 
> nettle wine; elf-made wine; Madame Rosmerta's oak-matured mead, 
> mulled; sherry; red currant rum; whisky (single malt and Ogden's 
> Old Firewhisky); Mrs. Ogden's SureFire Hangover Tonic...] and 
> join in the fun - fill out the Mixer below!

Happy Anniversary HPFGU!!! And a big hug and thanks to all the List 
Elves for making this list so wonderful!! 
Act// Drinks a toast(I'lll have some of that elf-made wine please) 
to HP fans everywhere... to JKR .... to HPFGU ... to HPFGU ... to 
lisht evless... to (hic)  
>  
> Say, if you whip up your own concoction at the self-service 
> bar, do tell us the name and the recipe.  Is that Felix Felicis 
> in your flask?  Why yes, a drop in my goblet would be just the 
> thing, thank you...
>  
> :) The List Elves <hiccup!> aka The HPfGU List Admin Team
>  
>  
>  
> * Name(s).
>  
> * 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. 
 
I'm djklaugh (aka Deb- or one of them any way).... a genderfree 
version of a contraction of my real life handle... created cuz it 
was easy for this old brain to remember (I'm more than 5 times older 
than the age at which witches and wizards start at Hogwarts)... now 
having seen so many creative and fascinating names wish I'd been 
more attuned to the possibilities
  
> * Whose signature/handle/moniker/email address at HPfGU 
> (a)  do you wish you had come up with first? 

too many to list!

 (b)  intrigues you? ditto
  
> * If you lived in the Potterverse, who would you be, and what 
> would you do for a living? 

I'd probably be working at St Mungo's in the long term spell damage 
ward...  
  
> * What would you see in the Mirror of Erised? 

Me handing in my "I quit" letter cuz the new RV is all packed and 
ready to go as I leave to go walk about for a couple of years. 
  
> * What shape would a boggart take, if you chance upon one? 

A dead child ... like Molly's boggart
  
> * What happy memory will you rely upon, if you are to conjure 
> up a Patronus? 
   
  The days my sons were born
  
> * What form might your Patronus take?

  An eagle 
  
> * What might your animagus form be?

   A bear

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

   Definately a wand and also a really good broomstick... fast, 
sporty, and turns on a knut And from WWW - one of each thing they've 
invented... they really have not received all the kudos they deserve 
for such creative and unique inventions and potions 
   
> * Times being what they are...what is your favorite flavor of 
> jam?  What is your dearest ambition? 

  I'm not much of a jam eater... my favorite sweet is brown sugar 
buttermilk coffee cake.... I knew it as Bishops Bread when I was in 
prep school... yummmyyy 
My dearest ambition is to have the resources, time, and health to go 
explore this world we live in ... just take off and go wandering for 
a few years
  
> * Which of the HP books is your favorite? 

ack... hard question cuz I love all of them... but if I have to pick 
one I guess OOP then HBP
   
> * Who is your favorite character?

   Minerva McGonagall, Harry, Luna, Snape, Dumbledore... hard to 
pick just one  
  
> * What do you hope will happen in Book 7?

   That Harry and his friends will find a way to vanquish LV without 
endangering their souls
  
> * What do you think will happen in Book 7?

  That Harry and friends will prove that Love really does conquer 
evil 
  
> * 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*?

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

  Only a few bits and pieces
  
> * What's your personal best for Expert Level Minesweeper?

  What is Minesweeper?
  
> * When did you join HPfGU?  How did you find us?
  
  I followed a link from The Muggles Net about 8-9 months ago but 
was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of postings and got lost back in 
the nether regions for quite a long time 
  
> * Point us to your delurking post...how was that maiden voyage?

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/133756  -- 
ummm {shrug} guess it went over like a lead balloon cuz it got no 
responce what so ever 

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

  My own:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/134971
           http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/135647
           
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137740  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137869 

As for favorites from others... well I could fill up a book the size 
of The Monster Book of Monsters if I tried to list all those! 
  
> * 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...] 

Well I made a major goof in message 137869 (above) cuz I mixed up 
the number of students from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff who are taking 
NEWT Potions
>  
> * Have you been around since August 2000?  What were the hot 
> topics for you personally five years ago, post-GoF? 

   I had not yet found HPFGUs so was struggling with all the 
implicatons by myself 
  
> * What things about you often come as a surprise to others?
    
  That I truly enjoy Harry Potter and his adventures and friends... 
most of my colleagues and friends still think HP is just for children
   
> * Things you do when not staring at the computer:

  work, read, get together with family and friends, watch movies, 
and right now tearing apart the kitchen and bathroom for a major 
renovation plus arranging to put on a new roof and put in a new 
furnace
  
> ** Got a question of your own?  Ask it here.

Do House/List Elves ever sleep? 

  

 > More HP fun (share your results please!):
>  
> * Ever wonder into which Hogwarts House the Sorting Hat would 
> put you? If you're not sure, get sorted at

  LOL one says Ravenclaw, one says Hufflepuff, and the third had a 
three way tie between Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Griffindor 
>  
> Professor MacFusty's Sorting Hat: http://tinyurl.com/sqz2
> (aka 
> http://quizilla.com/users/HebrideanBlack/quizzes/Professor%
20MacFusty%27s%20Hogwarts%20Sorting%20Hat )
>  
> http://www.personalitylab.org/tests/ccq_hogwarts.htm
>  
> http://www.btinternet.com/~harrypotterguide/sortinghat.html
>  
> * Is your interest in Harry Potter just good, harmless fun...or
> are you bordering on obsessive? Find out here:
>  
> The HP Obsession Test: http://www.fuuko.com/hpquiz.html

 Only 28% obsessed... 
 
  Yawn, the elf-made wine is going to my head and I've gotta go to 
work in the morning.. 
 Nice to meet you all!! 
   Deb (djklaugh)