Personality Test - Animagi Filk - Japanese Fan Art - James and Lily - Amulets

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 10775

It's been Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday -- all weekdays when
people are supposed to be at work (or school), but you guys have posted
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of messages, so that I couldn't catch
up even by staying up after bedtime.

Perhaps fortunately, it seems that a third of the posts have been people
listing their scores on the Which character are you like? and Sorting
Hat quizzes. I liked the cute why Mike the Goat described his top five
characters. Other than that, looking at people's lists of characters led
me to wonder whether there is any validity to the system the quiz uses
to decide which answers are like which character. Maybe people get told
they are like characters whom they never thought they were like simply
because the quiz designer was *wrong*.

ANIMAGI FILK
Caius Marcius wrote: (The Scene: Behind locked doors at Gryffindor, a
generation or so distant. Three friends of Remus Lupin, SIRIUS BLACK,
JAMES POTTER, and PETER PETTIGREW have reached the point in their
Animagi studies that they are now ready to select the type of animal
into which they will transform)

The song is cute, but IIRC it has a Major Factual Error: Animagi don't
get to CHOOSE their animal form, they just get stuck with the luck of
the draw. I've often wondered if they could get a second animal form by
going through the 'dangerous' Animagus process a second time.

JAPANESE FAN ART (thanks Susan for the URL!)
ender wrote: The only ones I didn't like were Hermione and Lee.  Because
of the dreadlocks, I had pictured Lee being black.

I agree with you about liking and not liking the pictures. I am sure
that GoF STATES that Lee is black (altho' I haven't found the page
number g'rrr). Before reading that in GoF, I had assumed that Lee was a
white boy with dreadlocks.

JAMES AND LILY (one of my favorite ships)
Dinah wrote: I think Mme Rosmerta - or some one else in the "Three
Broomsticks" scene - said that Sirius and James were the cleverest
wizards. Does anyone else have a slight problem with this? Sirius is a
character that shows flaws, but James...
Cleverest wizard, prankster, but still respected and responsible enough
to become Headboy, great Seeker...

It was in the Shrieking Shack, while Remus was explaining about his
friends becoming Animagi, that he said: "Your father and Sirius here
were the cleverest
students in the school, and lucky they were, because the Animagus
transformation can go horribly wrong Your father and Sirius here were
the cleverest students in the school, and lucky they were, because the
Animagus transformation can go horribly wrong"

I've always assumed that Remus, saying that James and Sirius were the
cleverest students in the school (I keep remembering it as 'in their
year'!), omitted himself due to modesty and omitted Lily and Snape due
to it would be too complicated. I'm sure all five of them (and Peter)
were in the same year, and I often wonder about their class rank (by
grades) ... Sirius's would be lower than it should be, because of not
turning in homework assignments ... Snape was not Top of the class,
which is one of the things he's resentful about.... but which was Top of
the class, James or Lily?

Evidence of Lily being up there with the rest of them: in SS, unreliable
Hagrid said: "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on
the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un,
I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like
yours, what else would yeh be?" and "yer mum an' dad were as good a
witch an' wizard as I ever knew. Head boy an' girl at Hogwarts in their
day!"

Someone already commented that James was Chaser, not Seeker. I have a
problem with JKR having said that.  She firmly established how much
Harry resembles James physically, and she had Wood state that Harry is
the right build for a Seeker, so therefore James would also have been
the right build for a Seeker. The fans were all sure that James was a
Seeker and were all wrong. The fans are all sure that James was a big
star at Quidditch: could we be wrong about that, too? Was he good enough
to get on the House team (and thus further excite Snape's envious
hostility) but not good enough to turn pro, not even good enough to be
the best player in the school in his day....

AMULETS
Flying Ford Anglia wrote: Charms and Potions were (and still are) common
forms of  magical practice in witchcraft, but so were talismans and
amulets.   Obviously, JKR chose to give Charms and Potions Hogwarts
classes in their own right, but, so far, there are hardly any references
to talismans and amulets in the books.

I think that Amulets is a class of its own, but one taken in sixth and
seventh year, so we haven't seen it yet.
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