Marauders - character/sorting

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Marauders - character/sorting
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7352] Marauders - character/sorting
Date: 8/20/00 2:14 pm  (ET)

> In my head, I make this broad, if bizarre, analogy Harry=James;
Ron=Sirius; Hermione=Remus; Neville=Peter.

Someone a while ago was arguing for the far more bizarre analogy:
Harry=James, Hermione=Sirius, Neville=Remus, Ron=Peter.

> Catlady asserts that this is unlikely because introverts are invariably
scared to open their mouths in front of a roomful of people in case they
collapse in a gibbering heap.

I most certainly did not ASSERT that introverts are INVARIABLY scared
of etc. I said he (and all those other performers) must have a limited
form of introversion.

I'll admit that I should have said 'or extreme will-power'. One amazing
example is Richard Nixon. His personality/nature was such that schmoozing
and hanging out were totally alien to him, but he forced himself to spend
decades at such alien activities because they were necessary to achieve
his ambition. He did these alien activities badly enough (famous film
clip of him walking across the beach wearing a suit and dress shoes)
that people always joked about it, but it's amazing that he had enough
will-power to force himself to do them at all.