Fun post: which character would you most like to meet?

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12825

You're right, Julie--this IS a fun post!  Thanks for giving us all the 
opportunity to gush!  (Close observers will notice I give 2 answers to 
most of the questions...make of that what you will.)

>  OK, this is just a frivolous post. The questions are:
>   Which character would you most like to meet, and
> why?

(1) Dumbledore if I can just follow him around awhile.  He's so 
intriguing--I want to know what he does all day!  Contemplate the 
secrets of the universe, no doubt.  Just let me be a fly on his study 
wall for a few days.  And (2) Harry so I can give him a good long hug. 
 He really, really needs one, and Hermione interrupted the last one.
   
>   Which character would you most like to be friends   
>   with, and why?

I almost want to say Ron.  He is so damn funny--he would be the most 
fun person just to do things with, to hang out with.  And I do think 
there's a lot more depth to Ron than we've seen (& I'd bring it out a 
lot better than reserved Harry does).  I see it in little things like 
the way he sticks up for Neville, and moments like his telling 
Hermione to lay off Harry when she's pressuring him about lying to 
Sirius.  Ron is a lot more perceptive than he lets on.

But when it comes down to it, friendship means more heart-to-hearts, 
deep conversations, and intellectual depth to me, so I'll go with 
Remus.
 
>   Which character would you most like to be involved  
>   with romantically, why, and describe a perfect first
>   date...

Becca, I can't believe you're worrying about characters being too old 
for "little 14 year old me."  Here are all of us 30- and 
40-somethings, wondering who we can imagine dating without getting 
arrested, left with no one but "Sirius--no, Remus--no, Sirius!", and 
you have four bookfuls of contemporaries and you are complaining?!  
Damn it, girl, half of us would jump Harry (or fill in your choice:  
Ron, Oliver, Draco...) if it weren't illegal!

Okay, but I'm a mature woman ::glares and challenges fellow listies to 
dispute that:: <g> so I will seriously consider the question of which 
ADULTS I would like to be involved with.  And after much 
soul-searching, I have to say:  Remus Lupin, hands down, no question. 
 And I am pleased to report, like Jeralyn, that he is an awful lot 
like my husband.  It's always reassuring when the fictional characters 
you fall for bear a striking resemblance to your life partner.  

Perfect first date?  No such thing--first dates stink.  All that 
pressure.  How about, we never have to have one, as soon as we meet 
it's like we've known each other for years?
 
>   And, which character would you most like to be?

Oh, probably Hermione.  Because I already am.  (Which, again, is 
reassuring...like looking in the Mirror and seeing yourself as you 
are.)  Except that she can do magic and I can't.  That would be a nice 
addition to my life.  When I look at Hermione's life it seems very 
good--she has her problems, like people she loves getting into mortal 
danger on a regular basis and her being overly stressed out about 
work, but all in all she has her head together, and her heart too.  
IMO.

I thought Hagrid at first, but he seems kind of lonely.

Amy Z

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   "I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning 
down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?"
   "Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical
whisper, "when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign
that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry. . . ."
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