Are We Really This Old?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 187833


Alika Elf: If we start giving them butterbeer and firewhiskey there's going to be trouble!

Potioncat has stuffed the daytimer into her purse, and now has a tumbler of firewhiskey to go with the plate of food. Several clumps of elves strategically arranged around the room have their eyes on her.


Phlytie Elf: How many has Potioncat had?
Vexxy Elf: shh, she's talking.

Potioncat:
How long have you been a member of HPFGU?
My first post was 5 1/2 years ago--and Carol was the first to reply.

What was your best and/or most unexpected experience here?
I never expected it to be so much fun or to last so long. My youngest says the bunch of us should move on. But while HP is the topic, I think it's the sharing and discussion, the joking around that is the heart of HPfGU.

Favourite post of anyone else's to the group?
There are really too many to choose.  But I would recommend this essay by Porphyria. It's actually an essay.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/files/Essays/job.html

The Conundrum of Justice and the Divine Adversary: Literary
Parallels between Harry Potter and the Book of Job
By Porphyria, 2002.

There are two short threads based on it starting at 38508 and 123474. I haven't read it since the series concluded. I'll have to see if her ideas still apply.


Phlytie Elf: Conundrum? Divine Adversay? Oh, boy, she knows how to make party conversation.
Shorty Elf: Is anyone watching Potioncat? How many has she had?


Potioncat
If you were given the chance, what would you ask JKR?
How did the whole thing evolve and what things changed as you wrote HP?

Have any of your online friendships here gone on to real life
 meetings/friendships?
I have continuing on-line friends, but I haven't met anyone in real life--would love to.  And as for the ones who have gone on, well, I could name quite a few


Alika Elf: Oh no! She's getting maudlin!
Exmoor Elf: Do you think she'll fit on Winky's little bed? She can't last much longer.


Potioncat:
Favourite post of your own to the group?
My favorite post of my own is one I never submitted. 

Twisp Elf: That would be my favorite one too
Zippy Elf: Shh, she'll hear you.

Potioncat:
Shortly before DH came out, I worked it out that Lily, Petunia and Severus knew each other before Hogwarts. I was sure it had to be true, but not confident enough to post it. With all the harebrained predictions I did post, why was this the only one I got right?

But of the ones I did post, I'd say any that made people laugh would be my favorite. Here's one I found 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/162651


Elves in unison: Oh no! She's singing!