THE OLD CROWD – INTRO

[Amanda]

THE OLD CROWD – INTRO

Thanks for the invite; I'm thrilled to be here.  I recognize so many 
names of my favorite posters from HP for Grown Ups.

I feel like I've missed most of the post HBP discussion, although I 
know it will continue until book 7 comes out. I hope I will be able 
to catch up soon, and contribute in a productive way.

Wow
you want to actually know about me?  I'm flattered, and a little 
intimidated. The pressure to be witty and brilliant, you know?  I 
find I have a wonderful, if false, since of security in being 
completely anonymous on the Internet, but then again, I've started 
blogging recently, so now I'm regularly pouring out my soul to anyone 
who cares to take the time to read my scribblings.

Cheers, Mandy 

***Name: Amanda
 
***Nicknames/IDs: Mandy, ExSlytherin, Red (Not to be used by anyone 
but my spouse.) 
 
***Age: Sorry. Thirty something is all you get.

***Family: Husband, two cats, mum, dad, brother, sister
in laws etc.

***Home: New York, NY.
 
***Birthday, Place of Birth: 23 December. Southampton, England

***Education/Job/Role in Life etc: Blimey
the short of it is; I'm an 
actor/writer. (Read: woefully under-educated.) Wife, lover and very 
happy. 
 
***Other things we might want to know about you: Hummm
 I'm a history 
buff. Love history! Also have a fascination with combat, warfare and 
weapons. Unusual for a girl, but there it is. 
 
 
***First contact with Harry Potter: 2000 right after the publication 
of the Goblet of Fire. I was in an Opera at the Lincoln center. 
(Before you get too impressed I can't actually sing. I had one of 
those non-singing roles you get in Opera sometimes.) About 5 members 
of the cast were planning to line up outside B&N, at midnight, to buy 
their copies of the new Harry Potter book. Odd, I thought that these 
educated, literate and intelligent adults were getting so worked up 
over a children's book.  They, in turn, were amazed I hadn't even 
heard of these British books, as I was a Brit myself.  Needless to 
say they were all avidly devouring their copies of GoF back stage for 
the next week and, I began to think there had to be something to all 
this madness.  I want out a bought PS/SS the next day and was 
hooked.  The damn books are like crack! Not that I would know what 
crack is like


***Favorite Potter things: 

Fav Book: PoA I cry every time I read about Sirius and Remus hugging 
like brothers. 

Fav Characters: Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Black 
Lestrange. Oh, and since HBP - Tom Riddle.  

Fav Ships: Realistically: Harry/Luna. My fantasy ship: Sevvy/Cissy. 
My XXX Fantasy ship: Lucius/Ginny. (And this from a woman who used to 
hate to ship
 Heh.)

Fav Fics: Yes, I read. Mostly the smutty stuff. If you want 
recomendations just ask.  

Fav Objects: My favorite in the books are the Pensive, the Mirror of 
Erised and the Time Turner. In real live my Hogwart's cap.

***Extent of Potter obsession:  Being in B&N in Union Square 
listening to Jim Dale on July 16th 2005, and screaming when the giant 
count-down clock hit midnight.  Dressing up as Draco's wet dream for 
Halloween last year. Basically it was a twist on the sexy, Slytherin, 
schoolgirl costume. Oh, and owning three sets of the canon, US 
editions and both the UK adult and kids editions. All in hard cover. 

***Other interests/activities: Performing, writing, fencing and 
martial arts, stage and film combat, reading, Shakespeare. Wine, good 
food and great friends.
 
***Current/recent reading: The HP canon (again), Eats, Shoots and 
Leaves, The Story of O. I recommend: His dark Materials, Jonathan 
Strange and Mr. Norrel and anything by Alexander Dumas.
 
***Current/recent listening: Hum, mostly talk radio.
 
***Current/recent viewing: TV - Rome, Deadwood, Battlestar Galatica. 
Film – Sin City, The Brothers' Grimm.