HP4GU Contest #7 Results

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22016

Hello, all.  The results are in:  Here are the supposed muggles that 
we think are just passing -- in other words, really witches and 
wizards.

The phony muggles are:

Pedro Martinez, Michael Jordan, Steven Spielberg,  George Lucas, 
Wayne Gretzky, Elena's boss (very funny post by Elena; I recommend 
you read it), J.K. Rowling, pharmaceutical companies and advertising 
agencies (or actually some of their executives, I guess), Wolfgang 
Amadeus Mozart, Bobby Fischer, Pete Sampras, Margaret Thatcher (not a 
compliment in her case), Isaac Newton, Anne Boylen and her daughter 
Elizabeth, Elton John, Sarah Brightman, Dick Clark (more than one 
person caught him), Goran Visnjic, Mikhail Barishnikov, Bill Clinton 
(again, not a compliment), Nijinski, Richard Feynman, and J.S. Bach.

Interesting -- mostly athletes and musicians.

All of the explanations as to why the above are magical are 
reproduced below, but before you get to read them, remember that 
Contest #8 (Trailer Trashing) is still open, so submit your entry 
today!

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First off I think Michael Jordan is definitely a wizard. Anyone who 
has seen him play basketball over the years knows how incredible he 
is.  I have never seen anyone who can hang in the air the way he does.

Second I think Steven Spielberg is a wizard also. He has made some 
of, or been associated with some of, the best movies of our time. 
Jaws, the Indiana Jones series, Schindler's list, and one of the most 
magical movies of all time E.T.   I think he's a wizard mainly based 
on the comments actors have made that have worked with him over the 
years. It seems the main theme is that he's magical. He see shots 
that no one else gets until it's on film. He takes chances on 
directing or producing scripts that other people might not see any 
real potential in. The Sixth Sense and American Beauty are two recent 
ones that come to mind. I guess I wish I could be like Spielberg when 
I grow up, so I think he's magical. ::It doesn't matter that I'm 
almost 36<g>.::

I could probably think of some more, George Lucas and Wayne Gretzky 
being others, but I think I'll leave it at that.

alyeskakc at netzero.net (Kristin)

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I know one magical person, who is my "boss" at the workplace (must-
not-be-named of course!). Here is a short list of the tricks he can 
do (only those I am aware of) in alphabetical order.

Babbling Curse: I usually feel the effects when I am trying to 
explain to him why the slides for his next presentation are not yet 
ready.

Confundus Charm: It's one of the most frequent: I simply don't know 
if he's wrong or right, if he's there or not, when he will arrive or 
leave, when are the next deadlines to be met, what I am supposed to 
do, etc.

Cruciatus Curse: Fortunately quite rare, it happens when I really 
missed something important or made a really horrible mistake. The 
pain inside is unbearable.

Imperius Curse: Needless to say, this the most used one: he always 
gets me to do what he wants, even when (or especially when) I do not 
agree!!!!

Memory Charm: Whenever he questions me because I have not done 
something he told me to do, and I just cannot remember that he did 
tell me to do it. Or else, when he convinces me that HE had this 
wonderful idea instead of me.

Stunning Spell: Often in conjunction with the Babbling Curse, 
whenever I am caught doing something I should not have done, or not 
doing something I should have done.

Summoning Charm: He must be using this, because always when I am 
trying to avoid him I just end up being outside of his office so he 
can see me and bid me enter (and give me something to do as a 
consequence).

Vanishing Spell (or Disapparating, not clear): Whenever you look for 
him to make him sign something important (especially purchase 
orders), you just saw him one moment before and then he is nowhere to 
be found.

Elena  maestrie at libero.it

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J.K. Rowling is definitely not a muggle.  She has cast a deep spell 
over far too many of us.

Some of the better advertising agencies clearly use the power of 
magic to influence the purchases of both muggles and magic folk alike.

Pharmaceutical companies (many of whom employ the aforementioned 
wizarding advertising agencies) are obviously purveyors of some of 
the "moste potente potions" around.  With so many of us are walking 
around under the influence of these potions, it is my deepest hope 
that the pharmaceutical companies are not in line with Voldemort and 
his supporters. 

-De

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I agree about Pedro, being a Yankee fan living in England, he is one 
of the bane's of my life at the moment! :-)

Other wizards/witches past and present, IMHO, include:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (how any muggle could write such music is 
incomprehensible)

Bobby Fischer (head and shoulders above all the muggle chess players 
of his day, until he "disappeared" of the scene in 1975, very 
strange, maybe Voldemort had something to do with it, reappeared very 
briefly in the 1990's then went again into oblivion)

Pete Sampras seems just unbeatable on grass (yes, I am watching 
Wimbledon at the moment)

Margaret Thatcher MUST be a witch.  How she got all those people here 
in the U.K. to vote for her so many times with the policies she had 
without an element of witchcraft is beyond me.

dosser at btinternet.com (Chris Dosset)

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Are we allowed to go historical? Because I think Newton was, given 
that he was an alchemist, and of course Anne Boylen (whose decision 
to allow Henry to chop off her head was a gesture of suicide) and her 
daughter Elizabeth were as well - Elizabeth really spent her years in 
exile at Hogwarts, not Hatfield House, and returned from there to 
enter the Tower when Mary demanded she do so, so she was never a 
qualified witch.
 
Then again, I think the Weasleys are descendants of the Queen's 
bastard son with Robert Dudley, so what do I know?

In modern times, Elton John is a likely candidate - would anyone of a 
muggle background dress like that?

htandy at carltonfields.com (Tandy, Heidi)

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Someone who is really a Wizard or a Witch, huh?

Hmmm...I have thought long and hard on this one. I thought, 'Who 
could be magical?' I gotta tell you, I was stumped!

And then it hit me.

In 1992, I was watching "The Phantom of the Opera" and I was lucky 
enough to see a show with Sarah Brightman. I'm not to sure how many 
people know this, but she's the ex-wife of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

At any rate, I remember sitting there watching the show, thirteen 
years old, mesmerized by what I was seeing.

It was during the "Music of the Night" scene that I realized she must 
be a Witch, someone capable of Magic. The Phantom was urging her to 
sing, calling her his Angel of Music, and there was that voice, that 
Voice! It sent chills down my spine. Her voice rose and fell with 
such ease, such natural warmth and heat, that she couldn't not be a 
Witch.

And she changed my life. A year after seeing the show (three times, 
just to hear her voice again) I began to study Opera. Since then, no 
longer able to sing the high notes ( I was once able to hit a High C, 
the highest note in music..ouch!) I continue to sing.

I sing when I walk, when I do housework, and in Theatre. She is one 
of the reasons I am an actor today. I thought that if I could be a 
part of something so beautiful, like Sarah Brightman was part of 
Phantom, it would change my life.

And it has. She truly has to be a Witch to have changed my life so 
much. Her work has influenced my art (written, spoken, drawn or sun), 
and made my life thrall Magical...

thanx, and hugs.
Jamieson

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Two words:  Dick Clark.  We all know that wizards age slower than us 
Muggles, and he's been around, with the same face and all, since 
American Bandstand.  He manages to get the good gig--I mean, Rockin' 
New Year's Eve?  Making the ball drop isn't that hard.  Not if you 
have--say it with me now--magic.  Screw the lightbulbs, that's just 
so the Secretary of Magic over here doesn't get his boxers in a knot 
when the ball lights up and drops over Times Square.  The fact that 
it always goes off without a hitch...well, you do the logic.  No, not 
logic...magical folks are awful at logic, but I digress.  I figure he 
probably has Lockhart as an image consultant and PR personnel.  Some 
eternal youth potion--c'mon, I bet Snape could brew that--and some 
good PR from Lockhart, and it's all good for Dick Clark: Wizard in 
Disguise.  Also--ever notice you never hear about Dick Clark except 
at New Year's Eve?  Evidence that he surely off in the wizarding 
world 364 days a year, coming out only to entertain the Muggles on 
New Year's Eve and snicker at how silly we all really seem.

Barring this, he's a vampire.  He never ages, dammit!

phantomangel90 at hotmail.com (Emma Moniz)

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The RL person I *most* suspect of being a wizard is Dick Clark.  That 
guy NEVER ages!:-)

My second guess would be Goran Visnjic (Luka on ER) because no one 
can be that damn sexy without some kinda magical help.;-)

klhurt at yahoo.com (Kelly the Yarn Junkie)

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OK, my guess is the dancer Mikhail Barishnikov. He has to be a 
wizard, as it is sure he's made of flesh and blood and therefore 
*has* to have some kind of weight. But look at him dancing, 
absolutely weightless, and you'll agree that he's muttering 
"Wyngardium leviosa" all the time.

Susanna
pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it

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I'm sure that someone must have nominated William Jefferson Clinton 
as a Wizard. Thinking of Clinton, I'm reminded of a Herblock cartoon 
from 1972 showing Nixon miraculously walking on slime.  Of course, 
the Trickster was unable to maintain his slimy balance for very long, 
but Clinton, no doubt through the use of diabolic Dark Arts that 
might have even given Lucius Malfoy hesitation, left the Oval Office 
fully erect (KA-BOOM!); the first Democrat President to do so since 
the 22nd amendment was enacted. 

Despite his multiple scandals of personal and financial impropriety - 
his popularity was never seriously in question after the Gingrich-led 
government shut-down at the end of 1995. Clinton had clearly learned 
either the Confundus Charm to cloud his opponents minds, and/or the 
Riddikulus Charm to make them look totally preposterous.  He must 
have used the Confundus charm on the female voters of America; 
despite credible witnesses of sexual harassment (and even of rape), 
Clinton was twice elected solely because of his advantage over the 
GOP with female voters.

coriolan at worldnet.att.net (Caius Marcius)

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I thought it was generally recognized that the ballet dancer Nijinski 
was some kind of magic user who levitated during the "Le Spectre de 
la Rose" leap.

What about the late Richard Feynman? He was a great deal like 
Dumbledore in Muggle clothes.

catlady at wicca.net (Rita Winston)

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I nominate J.S. Bach.

Bach's weakness at passing as a Muggle makes Archie look like a 
master of disguise.  It is self-evidently impossible for anyone to 
have composed 1200 works of music (those are only the extant ones! 
countless others have been lost or destroyed), many of them 
masterpieces and many groundbreaking in form, without the aid of 
magic and within an ungenerous Muggle lifespan (he 
died at 65).  As Reg says in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 
(Douglas Adams), it challenges credulity to think one person could 
really have generated all of that.  Yet we are supposed to believe 
that he did so while also being the virtuosi organist of a church, 
directing the choir for several churches (5 rehearsals a week; he 
wrote most of the cantatas, of course), conducting and playing in a 
symphony weekly, and fathering (one assumes his wife did most of the 
caring for) twenty children.

I also have my doubts that this music sprang from a human imagination 
at all.  It is so glorious that I suspect it is largely 
transcriptions of phoenix song.  The same goes for several works of 
Beethoven, Ravel, and Mendelssohn that I can think of...

aiz24 at hotmail.com (Amy Z)