1. Butterbeer or pumpkin juice?

Butterbeer. It sounds so tasty - I imagine it tasting sort of like what you get when you have pancakes and syrup and butter all melted together.

2. What House would you most likely (or want to) be in in Hogwarts?

I think (personally) I'm a Ravenclaw, but most likely I'd be in Hufflepuff :

sorry but that house is so lameass.

3. If you were an animagus, what animal would you turn into?

Hmm... do we have control over animagus forms? I'd probably be something utterly useless like a flamingo. I'd quite like to be a civet, because they are my all time faveourite animals.

Random thought - what if someone's animagus form was a fish? D:

4. What character do you empathize with, or resemble best?

Empathise? Snape totally xD I know what it's like to be ganged up on and bullied like that ... man. Except I didn't become all twisted and bitter about it, I sort of got on with my life. Snape's such a looser but you've gotta love him for it. I mean, his patronus was a doe for crying out loud, that's like he was admitting he knew that Lily was destined for James.

5. What position do you play at Quidditch?

Erm... I'd probably such at Quidditch just like any other sport. But being a beater sounds quite good - I remember being ok at rounders so it's just like that really isn't it?

6. Which teacher is your favorite?

Aww man, there's about four I think are just so awesome. McGonnagol pwns major ass, Quirrel is like... xD awesome and Remus well, he's really cool until he loses said coolness.

7. Any Harry Potter 7 predictions?

I predicted the marauders would die in the reverse order their names appear on the marauders map. For some reason I've always thought this and I don't know why.

I knew that Snape was good - sorry, just too obvious I'm afraid

I didn't think Harry was a Horcrux because it sounded so lame and contrived, but I could understand the reasoning behind it and kinda anticipated that one.

Blah. I thought Hagger was going to die too.

Harry Potter meme

Harry Potter Meme of All Memes by Osaku
Name/Username
Age
Gender
House	Slytherin
Wand	Oak, 12", Phoenix Feather
Best Course	Potions
Worst Course	Herbology
Pet	Great Horned Owl
Patronus	Raven
Quidditch Job	Keeper
Wizard Candy	Pumpkin Pasties
Profession After School	Hogwarts Professor

I'm not a Slytherin D:

*does not want*

The Books in Order from Favorite to Least Favorite:
1. Deathly Hallows
2. The Prizoner of Azkaban
3. Half Blood Prince (I know, I said I hated it. I'm allowed to change my opinion!)
4. Philosopher's Stone (Quirrel <3)
5. Order of the Phoenix
6. Goblet of Fire
7. Chamber of Secrets


Number of Times You Have Read the Series:
1. 4ish
2. 3
3. 6 or 7
4. 3
5. 2
6. 2
7. 1


Favorite Chapter from Your Favorite Book:

The Prince's Tale. Oh my god that was -such- a sad chapter. Sorry, it's been over fantarded
over but it's my personal faveourite


Five Favorite Characters:
Lupin, Snape, Quirrell, (I have a thing for male DADA teachers, don't I?) Lucius Malfoy, HAGGER!

Three Least Favorite Characters:
Harry, Hermione, Rufus Scrimgeour

Favorite Member of the Trio:
*twitch* I hate them all ¬¬ ... Ron?

Three Favorite Magical Creatures:
Dragons, Thestrals, Phoenixes

Favorite Family:
x) the Malfoys

Favorite Villain:
Voldy

Favorite Death Eater:
Bwahaha, Snape.

Favorite Non-Hogwarts Magical Building:
The Burrow?

Favorite Diagon Alley Location:
Ollivanders! =D

Three Favorite Spells:
Sectumsempra
Levicorpus
Langlock

Three Favorite Potions:
Amortentia
Polyjuice potion
Felix Felicis

Favorite Unforgivable Curse:
Avada Kedavra!

Favorite Department of Mysteries Room:
Has to be the Brain Room. Accio Brain!

Biggest Surprise:
Um... that Hagrid didn't die. And that Lupin and Tonks died...

Biggest Letdown:
Oh so many.
1) Lupin in book 7... enough said.
2) Hermione didn't die
3) Harry didn't die
4) She still managed to write in some crappo Dumbly scene in book 7 even after he'd died

Favorite Mode of Transportation:
HAGGER... I mean Thestral!

Favorite Weasley:
Omfg I think they're all great. ARTHUR!

Favorite Order Member:
Bwahahah Snape. And HAGGER

Favorite pet:
Snape.. no
HAGGER...no

Hedwig ;-;

One Character You’d Bring Back to Life:
Snape! Actually no... the repercussions would be bad.

Harry; So... you like my eyes do you? *wink wink nudge nudge*

Moment That Will Always Make You Cry:

Urgh. My fave chapter of course! Prince's Tale. :c

Favorite Hogwarts Room:
Dumbly's office.

Favorite Class:
Defence Against the Dark Arts - most of the time it was taught by a hawt teacher.

I kid. It's Care of Magical Creatures

HAGGER URGE

Favorite Teacher:
Grr, toss up between Snape and Lupin. And Hagger.

DADA teacher:
Quirrell, Snape, Lupin?... how does one choose?

Least Favorite Teacher:
Binns D:

Favorite Non-Human Hogwarts Resident:
Firenze x) in my head he's like... Legolas with hooves.

Favorite Hogsmeade Location:
Zonkos

Favorite Triwizard Champion:
omfg... Krum xD monobrow man!

Favorite Triwizard Task:
The lake bit

Which Character You’d Ask to the Yule Ball:
... x)

Which Character You’d Like to Use a Love Potion On:
None of them D:

Which Character You’d Like to Use Veritaserum On:
Snape. Oh the fun xD

How Long You Have Been a HP Fan:
Since I read the third book. Yes it took that long for me to be converted I'll admit! D:

Favorite Wizard Rock Band:
There's only one I can think of.

Number of Midnight Releases You Have Attended:
Craig's faveourite number, just one.

Favorite HP Website:
Um... acciobrain!

Most Ridiculous Potter Theory You’ve Heard:
Snape is bad. (hahaha you fools!)

Character You’re Most Like:
Prolly a mixture of Peeves and Snape, unfortunately. I have biting sarcasm but I'm completely batshit insane with it ¬¬...

House You Think You’d Be Sorted Into:
Ravenclaw

Your Patronus Would Be A:
Flamingo

To You, Amortentia Would Smell Like:
Pretties.

You’d Use Felix Felicis To:
Win the lottery? D:

The Job You Would Most Like to Try:
x) I'd wanna work in the brain room. Or being a healer, that would be cool.

Which You Would Rather See — a Sequel or a Prequel:
Prequel, something marauders era

The Movies in Order from Favorite to Least Favorite:
5th.
1st for the lulz (no dear boi... I'm a wha...what? etc)
then all the others are crudtastic. I hate the 3rd one. ;/

Animagus or Metamorphmagus:
Animagus

Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans or Chocolate Frogs:
Chocolate Frogs

Black or Lupin:
Lupin!

CAPSLOCK HARRY or Emo!Harry:
The hell?
Bringingsexyback!Harry. (Blythe will know what I mean)

Death Eaters or Dumbledore’s Army:
Dumbledore's Army!

Draco or Lucius:
Omfg Blythe you little malfoy traitor you. Everyone knows Lucius is the best.

Durmstrang or Beaubaxtons:
Dumstrang. Beaubaxtons are French! WHY WOULD YOU PICK THEM?!

Floo powder or Broom:
Broom

Fred or George: BOTH

Grimmauld Place or The Burrow: The Burrow

Herbology or Care of Magical Creatures: The Latter

Hippogriffs or Thestrals: Thestrals

Invisibility cloak or Pensieve: Pensieve

Mermish or Parselmouth: Mermish ;-;

Occlumency or Legilimency: Occlumency

Peeves or Nearly Headless Nick: NHN forever baby. <3

Peter Pettigrew or Mundungus Fletcher: eww they both make me want to hide. Peter?

Professor Binns or Professor Umbridge: Umbridge, you can't kill Binns (unfortunately)

S.P.E.W or the Inquisitorial Squad: omfg neither.

The Ministry of Magic or Gringotts: Gringotts!

Three Broomsticks or The Leaky Cauldron: Leaky Cauldron

Werewolf or Inferus: Werewolf

Whomping Willow or Flying Ford Anglia: FFA

Yule Ball or Quidditch Championship: Yule Ball!

Friday Five

Borrowed shamelessly from my Dad's journal :D

1. Turn your head to the right -- what do you see?
The view out of the office window, my sister, the rest of the office...

2. Stand-up -- do you like how tall you are?
I guess, I'm pretty much a short ass but it's never really bothered me. Apart from when people point it out, then I wonder what the big deal is. I think I'm a lot taller than I actually am. :)

3. Do you believe in heaven or hell?
I'd like to believe Heaven was real, but I'm a scientist and rather sceptical so I'd like to see some proof before I make my mind up.

4. What is your favourite piece of jewellery?
That's a tough one, actually. My dad bought me a silver dragon/wyvern necklace from Rhodos when we went there two summers ago, and I adore it so much - I have no outfit to wear it with though (without looking like a hardcore goth) so I'm confined to simply looking at it wistfully and secretly putting it on in my room. ^^
I also have a pentacle necklace from my best friends Nathalie and Leah from a few xmasses ago, which has a beautiful moonstone in it ( ... I haven't the faintest idea where this necklace is actually) but still... it's so pretty. I think I might have lost that one though :/
And I also have a celtic tree rune necklace which probably cost like £3 or something that my mum bought for me when we were in Wales, but I wear it nearly everyday and I really like it even though it's probably plastic and it's not particually pretty.

So all my faveourite pieces of jewellery I usually get funny snide comments for wearing (especially the pentacle, that caused uproar among the xians) but I can't decide between those three because they all mean a lot to me.

5. What is the last thing you took from someone else?
Erm... :B I don't take things, I ask for them, or I'm given them.

Gaming

Gaming has always been one of my most faveourite pastimes. Probably one of my earliest memories is sitting aside my dad in the office (which used to be in the top room of the house), while he worked, I used to play games on another computer one of the first games I played being Robocod. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pond_2 ) (I also used to remember asking my Dad to help me on the scary levels like bosses, but come on, I was only 2 or 3)

Over the years the platform over which the gaming occurs has changed, (From PC, to Dreamcast to XBOX) but I noticed a few years ago that the type of games I tend to play stick to a handful of genres. I've played everything under the sun, mind - beat 'em ups, FPS, RTS, platformers, RPG... the lot. But I've always tended to sway towards games in the RPG, or Platformer genre, to me, these games are the most 'fun'. There are however a handful of games that have stuck in my mind as being firm faveourites, and if you ever get a chance, I highly recommend them to you. Here are my top ten:

10) Soul Calibur
An old classic in the arcades, the Sega Dreamcast port is hailed as the "greatest fighting game ever made", and by some the greatest game across all genres, so not including this game in my top 10 would be somewhat of a crime. Unlike most fighting games it appeals to both novice and the expert, the controls being simple but having hidden subtleties (the parry function always makes you look pro). There are a whole host of characters (some unlockable giving replayability to the game), each well thought out and well designed, but you're bound to develop some firm faveourites (Voldo ftw!), and well, I just had a laugh playing it really.

9) Phantasy Star Online
The first RPG in my list, and something I really wish I'd actually played online. The story goes that on the planet Coral, endless warring caused a group of people to band together and create the 'Pioneer project'; the search for a new home. Drifting through space, they finally discovered the planet Ragol, which appears at first to be an Eden, but turns out to be Hell. You play as a 'hunter' who's job it is to explore the new planet to determine if it is suitable for habitiation. The game as a whole is your typical RPG, with classes and skills to learn, levels to traverse, in this respect it is your run of the mill type game. But it was the graphics, storyline and overall concept that really grabbed me and made it memorable. Even if you only play it in the offline mode like me, it's worth a look.

8) Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Thinking it was kind of cool, after playing the demo, this Action-Adventure did not fail to impress me. In a nutshell, you play as 'fallen' vampire Raziel on a quest to seek revenge on his creator, by fallen, I mean you're no longer a vampire, but a creature who feasts off the souls of his victims. In a nutshell means that until I began playing it and noticing I hadn't a clue who half the characters were, I realised that there had been games previously that contained all the backstory to this title. (This was even more of a problem in Legacy of Kain: Defiance) Nevertheless, despite this and the shoddy graphics, the puzzles in this game actually caused you to think, and I like a game that keeps me going for a good amount of time. Plus there was a lot to explore, and areas that you'd only come across by messing around in the game world, something that was, for me, a huge reward, as I'm the sort of person who enjoys just existing in the world the people create for me.

7) Sonic Adventure
Yeah, you really have to have at least one Sonic title here - this was the first Sonic game in 3d I might add, also being a title in which Sonic (as Finn likes to put it) wasn't all 'yo dudes!'. It was probably the last too. The main story arc was playable through the eyes of six different characters, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, E-102 Gamma and Big the Cat, so you ended up seeing different story points, which all concluded at the end - I thought this was a huge incentive to play each character. There were two modes of gameplay interspersed throughout the game, Action stages (which are your basic sonicesque levels) and Adventure fields (which you explored for plot advancement, containing character power ups and puzzle solving elements). It was a game I had a lot of fun playing, although it didn't last terribly long in my hands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Adventure

6) Stranger's Wrath
The last title produced by Oddworld Inhabitants, for me this was too little of a good thing. I was really dissapointed when I completed this, because it was so short, but the actual game itself was superb. While previous Oddworld titles had you playing the underdog, this time you were playing as the top of the pile guy, which made for an interesting and fun change. Also, the developers seemed to have finally gotten the hang of a 3d world after the mistakes they made in Munch's Oddysee, this world was stunning in comparison - you really got the feel of the changing landscapes. Whereas in Munch it tended to be a little samey, in Stranger's Wrath we had first the desolate, dusty wilderness reminiscent of the wild west, changing to towering pine forests and finally a frigid snowy wasteland. This was the first title after Abe's Oddysee that I felt truly captured the spirit of Oddworld, I got shivers down my spine just looking at the place, never mind playing in it. Plus, as usual the humor, the fast paced action and the general solid gameplay returned, this time with FPS elements aswell as the usual problem solving action and adventure elements. What I also liked was the 'save the planet' message in the game, as there has been in every title so far, the end was very haunting. Definately a game worthy of being in my top ten.

5) Guild Wars
What? Guild Wars only comes 5th? I'm afraid so, there are four more games I have to place above it, but it was tough to decide if I was going to place this on position 4 or not. The second RPG on my list, this one is an MMORPG, and of which I actually played (and still play) online. I've had a lot of fun playing it, and it's probably the one I've played most solidly over the longest period of time. It seems I just can't get enough, and with the addition of the expansion packs every half a year, it just keeps on dragging me back for more. It's also great to have a game I can play with more than one friend - I love being in a team with people from college, and playing with Finn is just the best.

4) Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
My god this was a beautiful game. The first game I had played infact, that the developers had actually managed to make water look like water. The underwater world itself was lush and alive, and I liked the gameplay - as a dolphin, you had to resurface from time to time to breathe, and you replenished your life by actually hunting shoals of fish, different fish being more beneficial. You could also learn to communicate with the different 'friendly' species in the game as you went through each level, Turtles, Manta Rays etc... making them follow you and perform various functions. And while you may think this game sounds like a walk in the park, it was tough - I actually had to complete it with a walkthrough at one point after being stuck on it for several months, which is something I've never had to do previously or since. The storyline was also a strong point in this game, written by author David Brin, it will appeal immensely (and somewhat unusually) to sci-fi fans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_the_Dolphin:_Defender_of_the_Future) There really isn't anything else I can say about this game, everything was brilliant about it, it is however, a game you will play just once. After completion it's not something you can likely face again, it is a marathon to complete.

3) Xmen: Legends
The highest selling Xmen title of all time, Xmen legends is another RPG to add to the repetoire. I picked this up for about £10 thinking 'oh well, if it's not very good it doesn't really matter'. But it was the most fun I'd had from a game for such a long time. It's just great to be able to pick your four faveourite xmen and play as a team with them, and the added bonus of them having unique powers (not just standard everyone has a version of the same) just makes it all the more fun; you have to have a flying character, a character that can weld stuff, build bridges, attack close up, attack at range... plus they even had gambit chucking cards around which was great. My only two annoyances with this game was a little awkward multiplayer, the camera was a little dodgy, and the whole story revolved around a character we didn't even care about... magma... come on. But the graphics were great - I love cell shading. It just added to the cartoony feel of it all. It's so high up the list because it far exceeded my expectations, and it came to me at a time I was desperate for something I could just have fun with.

2) Shenmue
Possibly the most innovative game ever created, Shenmue cannot be classed in any of the game genre brackets that exist currently - the company had to create an entirely new one especially for it, FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment). This was down to the fact that you could do whatever you wanted, go wherever you wanted to and experience real weather patterns (as they were in Japan in 1986/7 or select randomly generated ones) and day/night. Infact, at the time Shenmue was as close to real life as you could get, the company spending around seventy million dollars producing it - the highest cost of creating a game ever at the time. Every time you play this game, it is different - you will never experience the same thing twice (save for the main storyline). You may meet entirely different people depending on where you are on which day, and you remember who people are ('Hey, there's the woman who works at the arcade, going to the supermarket'). And you can interact with virtually everything you see - feeding kittens food you snitched from your fridge at home, playing games at the arcade, catching a bus to go to your job... playing pool in the bar. All the while uncovering clues as to who the mysterious man was who murdered your father, and why he did it. The game spans over a period of about five months, from December 1986 - April 1987 - if you don't complete the game in that time your father's killer returns to finish the job... but you really do have a very long time to complete it in. Especially since you play in real time (1 day = 24 mins approx). A game that really is something very special, it was a shame to play the sequel and find it so boring - and I'm worried that the rest of the story (spanning 16 chapters) is going to go downhill.

1) Abe's Oddysee
There are others futher down the list that are probably more deserving of this number one slot - for one they will have better graphics, more groundbreaking engines or something... this is a simple sidescrolling platformer. This game however, is something really special to me. I don't doubt that this probably has the best story of any game, or at least carries a very important message along with it. It's certainly the story that keeps me coming back to play it over and over again - a slave who escapes from capture to return and free his kind, I just love the happy ending it has and the fact that it draws parallels to our own planet just chills me. Every game in the series has some sort of message about how screwed up our planet is - this one was about slavery (as was Abe's Exoddus), Munch's Oddysee showed us how terrible animal testing, and extinction of whole species truly was, and Stranger's Wrath picked up on how huge multinational cooperations destroyed wilderness and chewed up nature's resources for their own personal gain... so on the surface while these games contain a lot of humor and fun, they do have a message along with them, and I think that's why they appeal to me so much. The other titles never really recaptured the essence of Oddworld that was first delivered to me in this title though, and I think this is why I like this one the most. The other games on the list were all special, but I think this is the one that really comes out top.

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God awful fanfiction

Ok, so I've always been a little against the whole idea of fanfiction. For me the only purpose it serves is for a quick bunch of giggles, and boy have I found some funny things over the years.

Recently I was intruiged - 'oh boy, what could they have possibly done to heroes' kind of intruiged, and going to that godawful place fanfiction.net, I discovered something really funny.

You see, they like to write characters from the book/movie/show in relationships, and sometimes the writers will show the relationship with a slash, a small x or... my personal faveourite, smooshing the two names together to make a new, funnier name. The latter is decidedly prominent for some reason when it comes down to Heroes fanfiction, with hilarious results (well, me and my sister found them funny)

My faveourite monstrosities include

Plaire (Peter and Claire. Did anyone ever point out to these people that this counts as incest?)

Mohindlar (Mohinder and Sylar, on another note. Nobody should ever describe an indian person as tasting like curry. It's just too amusing)

Clikki (I can even begin to describe why I find this funny, every time I write it I can't help but giggle. It's Claire and Niki for those of you who couldn't figure it out)

Cleter (Peter, Claude... oh god)

But yeah. This is another random journal designed to curb my ever impending boredom.