Sorting Hats and in-laws

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Potioncat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37421>:

<< It seems there was a HP site once upon a time that would give you a
wand and sort you into a house. Does anyone remember it? I'm not sure
if it was WB or Scholastic. >>

WB used to give you a wand by randomness - Allivan's storefront and
many of the wand type they sell seem to be copied from that part of
the WB site. WB also used to sort people in Houses, but I don't
remember if that was by randomness or by questionnaire.

The best on-line Sorting Hat I ever encountered was at:
<http://hogwarts.7dragons.net/sortinghat.html>

The second best was from a listie named Melanie from Ravenclaw and I
haven't been able to find her quiz in years.

Potioncat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183980>:

<< Although sometimes when a speaker is trying to completely identify
the relationship, he may add an -in-law to the word (cousin-in-law).
More often it's cousin by marriage. You know, I can't think of a good
reason for getting that specific in a conversation. Well, maybe if
someone said, "Isn't Voldmort your cousin?" and you wanted to distance
yourself from the relationship. >>

I've never heard anyone say aunt-in-law, but aunt-by-marriage came up
in conversation yesterday. A friend was reminiscing that, in her
children, the aunts and uncles on her mother's side were a real part
of the family. They all lived in the same city and got together at
least several times a year. But when she was in college, Aunt
so-and-so stopped being her aunt. I said "??" so she explained that
her uncle and aunt had gotten divorced then.