Sorting hat / Nick's Death date / Husband quiz pictures / Olympics

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37444>:

<< <http://hogwarts.7dragons.net/sortinghat.html>
I tried their Sorting Hat, version 2, which gives you only two choices
per question, many of them that I couldn't really answer as neither
choice applied. >>

I did the old version. I glanced over the new version and it appeared
to have the same questions with the same two answers. I agree that I
often don't know which of the two answers applies most (dis-applies
least) to me. So I did the test many times, varying some answers on
mood or whim or curiosity. But I loved the questions/answers because
many of them could be discussed for hours. First, what does it mean.
Maybe then, how does that reflect personality.

Would anyone be interested if I posted the questions and answers here
in OT?

<< BTW, you have to give your last name. I gave my maiden name, just
in case someone is trawling the Net looking for me. >>

I tell it my first name is Catlady and my last name is De Los Angeles.
One time it told me: "I remember your uncle, Oscar De Los Angeles -
unfortunately". That was the old version and I don't know if the new
version is different.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37464>:

<< how long Nearly Headless Nick has been a ghost. (One book says four
hundred years, another says five hundred. That particular error was, I
think, corrected, with five hundred as the "right" answer, despite the
anachronistic Elizabethan ruff and Jacobean plumed hat.) >>

Yes, it should have been 400 to match the fashions. 

But PS/SS only said 'four hundred years' once, and CoS had 'five
hundredth deathday' and the cake's inscription 'Sir Nicholas de
Mimsy-Porpington died 31st October, 1492'. Two to one, and the cake
inscription might be weighted heavier because of being an exact date.
In Britain, probably NOT weighted heavier because 1492 is when
Columbus 'discovered America'.

Are there reference's to Sir Nick's 'age' in later books?

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37446>:

<< Can you link us to your results so we can see his picture? >>

Thanks to Sandy for linking to her results in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37471>,
I was able to figure out how to see all the guys:

Lupin
<http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/the-harry-potter-husband-test/?fromCGI=1&var_Lupinity=14>

Snape
<http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/the-harry-potter-husband-test/?fromCGI=1&var_Snapesquity=14>

The other magic words are
Harryness
Ronness
Lockhartiness
Dumbledority
Dudleyness
Siriusness
Nevillity
Jamesiness
Billiness
Twinsosity

I can't get Mad-Eye to work. 
The Dumbledore pic is the weirdest. (The only half-naked one, Carol.)
The kids (Harry, Ron, Neville) are portrayed when over 18,
The Neville pic isn't round-faced.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/37489>:

<< (Different artists, possibly?) >>

IIRC the quizmeister stated on his front page that he had stolen the
art from various fan art sites.

<< rather sidetracked by the Olympics at the moment and wondering
why no one is discussing them >>

I'm not particularly interested in sports or television, but the other
morning the announcer of the radio news mentioned some swimmer had won
the 'individual relay'. That sounds like an oxymoron to me, isn't in
<http://www.onelook.com>, and Tim (who was on swim team in high
school, where he once won one point for his team) says he never heard
of it.