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azuriteWhoo-hoo! Okay, so Mamono's gotten back to me with WDKY17, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
guardian_kysra says she'll get back to me with it tomorrow (meaning today) and even nekokilala, our newest member of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
betasquad said she'd give it a look-see! Yayness!
News you can use:
I have updated my FFnet profile to include a comprehensive list of all 82 of my fics posted this far... and which ones are Oneshots, which ones are Works in Progress, and which ones are Multi-Chapter Completed Stories. As I JUST posted a new fic "Lover Alone" on30kisses and ygo_lyricwheel, this FFnet list is subject to change whenever I upload a new story/chapter. So keep your eyes peeled. New information on the profile includes "expected number of chapters," which some people might be interested in knowing.
I finished downloading ALL of PGSM! Yay! I have to start burning the CDs... but I'm still burning Rochelle's Inuyasha (which was being a pain today and refusing to let me burn CDs and then not letting me know about it or why), so I don't even know if I'll have enough. Keep in mind that I bought 100 CDs about a month ago. -_- I'm just excited to finally be up to Act 20! I wanna throttle Mamoru, though!
In Jamba news... well, I think I made a bit of a discovery. It's 50/50 when it comes to being "good" or "bad." Remember "C" the co-worker who's younger than me, cute, and I kinda had a bitty-size crush on him? Well a) the other day he joked about my age... I kicked him (not hard) and told him how old I REALLY was (20) and he seemed surprised! I felt bad about kicking him though, and ironically enough, we both apologized at the same time; b) we both closed together, along with "J" who I suspect likes me. I like him as a friend --he's cheered me up when I've needed it, and he does seem to care, but that particular night, not only was I on my rag, but I was thinking about how it's 10 days from the date when it'll have been 10 years since my sister died. So I was kind of quiet. Why do guys make a fuss when girls are bitchy on their period, but if they're quiet and moody instead of yelling and screaming, they seem to get more paranoid? *shrug*
Anyway, I finally made this comment about C being a womanizer, and he actually persisted in knowing who (of the female coworkers) agreed with me. When I named one particular girl, it seemed to get to him, and I deduced that he liked her. Or he at least cares a lot about her opinion... so, womanizer or no, it's not as if I have any reason to be jealous [I already have a boyfriend, I don't date younger guys, and wanting attention from a guy just because other girls were getting it is NOT a good reason to go after someone] and I'm trying to figure out what to do. I intended to tell C that he shouldn't change who he is, I'm sorry for what I said, and that he can and should go after this girl if he wants to-- but he should lay off the flirting with other female co-workers, because as I said, I'm not the only one who's noticed (and been on the receiving end of it).
For the most part, we had an amicable relationship today, but he left pretty quickly (again, without giving me the chance to say anything to him). I felt kind of sour and sad about it for the remainder of my shift, because I kept thinking there was something I could have said, but if he really cared about it, he wouldn't have acted the way he did. "K," the nice lead that's been closing with us these past few nights, is one of the girls C kind of flirted with (even though she's 6 years his senior!) said C probably didn't care. I don't know whether to believe her or not.
I was also thinking about what "J" asked while we were closing-- if I could date anyone in the store, who would it be. J already knows I kind of liked C, so I wondered if he was just asking to get me to admit it. I dodged around the answer, saying I wouldn't take the risk-- and then later saying I just didn't take risks in the summer (people DYING and all). C ended up being the first co-worker I told the truth to about Michelle. He didn't react in any special way, which I guess is what makes it so memorable-- he didn't say "I'm sorry" or "What happened?" or anything. I think he might have said "Oh." I can't be upset or happy about that one way or another.
I wanted to tell C, when we were alone, that I lied to J (augh, now I feel bad about that) and that yeah, I would have gone out with C, if I had the chance. But I neglected to mention that I couldn't and wouldn't cheat on my boyfriend, whom I love very much, crushes and silly things like that aside. "S" and "K" both know I have a boyfriend, I don't think J and C do, though. I wanted to tell C that I did like him a lot initially, but a lot of that feeling has faded, and frankly, the whole "womanizer" thing came from me being jealous that he'd been so nice to me at first, but then he started flirting with other girls and downright ignoring me (ignoring totally, not just ignoring-as-flirt-material). I wanted to say I kind of badgered that girl into agreeing with me that he's a womanizer (she didn't outright disagree with me; she sort of treated the whole thing as a joke) and that if he genuinely liked her, he should say so. I just didn't want to hear it from his lips.
And I worked with that girl today, but I couldn't bring myself to tell HER what I suspect about C, either.
At least all this stuff about fics and things have distracted me enough (until now) where I'm not thinking about it.
But what I am thinking about is Harry Potter, and all these weird questions that have been bubbling in my head since I started reading "Order of the Phoenix" for the second time. So here are my questions under an LJ-CUT... Answer if you can/dare.
(1) Fred and George tried to enter the Triwizard Contest in GoF. The minimum age requirement was 17 years old. Fred and George said they'd turn 17 in April. Everyone got out of school in July-- so they were 17 when Harry went home. By August, when Harry met up with them again at Grimmauld Place, they were STILL 17. So a) is 17 the legal age in the wizarding world? How about Britain? b) is 17 when they take their Apparition tests? Where do they take those tests? c) What year are Fred and George in? I was under the impression that they were 2 years above Harry and Ron, right? So they're in their 7th year when OotP starts?
(2) Is there any place that has the Black family tree actually drawn out? Because the way it was described was just a skosh bit confusing to me...
(3) Am I the only one that thinks Voldemort was behind Petunia's Howler (not that I think he's the type to go to the local Owl Office and write up a Muggle Howler)? I mean, because Remember my last, Petunia just SCREAMS Voldemort. His "last" was Harry's mother-- Petunia's sister.
(4) On a Goblet of Fire note, that whole golden-web thing that Harry and Voldemort did, the Priori Incantantem? How did Cedric come out of that? At the beginning of the Portkey-to-Voldemort "arc" of chapters, Voldemort's voice said "Kill the spare" but I was under the impression that someone else (perhaps Wormtail) did the actual Avada Kedavraing. But if it WAS someone else, how could they have used Voldemort's wand-- the same way that Barty Crouch Jr. used Harry's wand to conjure the Dark Mark? What's the whole point of a Wand being attuned to a certain person if someone else can use it?
(5) Does anyone have an idea on the conversion rate between Galleons, Knuts, Sickles... and like, any money in the real world? I have a hard time envisioning the thousand galleon Triwizard Prize when Harry seems to spend so much money on sweets and stuff in Hogsmeade ANYWAY...
(6) Does anyone else get the impression that Snape might have had a thing for Lily, which would have given him MORE cause to really, really hate James and therefore, Harry? I mean sorry, but a practical joke (even one that almost killed him) seems a bit much to hold a life grudge for.
(7) What Houses do you suppose everyone was in? I mean, Snape was probably in Slytherin and James was probably in Gryffindor, but what about Remus and Sirius? It's not stated directly, is it? And Remus doesn't strike me as the Gryffindor type, anyway...
(8) As for ANY other schools, including Durmstrang and Beauxbatons-- do you suppose they have Houses? If so, which ones? Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor were all about 1000 years ago-- you'd think they'd have been more well-traveled, but if Tom Riddle, Jr. was the direct descendant and last living heir of Salazar Slytherin, that means at least one of the founders never left England (or his family didn't, anyway).
(9) And now for a stupid question-- was I the only one that, upon reading the first few chapters of OotP thought that someone DIFFERENT assumed the identity of Tom Riddle, and that Voldemort wasn't who we thought he was at all? I mean, because I read (again) about some teenage boy going and killing the Riddles and their "grown-up son, Tom" and it wasn't until later that I put 2 and 2 together, and I realize Tom Jr. did the killing, and Tom Sr. was the dead "father." But for a while, I thought that the guy we thought became Voldemort was NOT actually Tom Riddle. Has anyone ever tinkered with this idea? And the whole thing about Riddle being Salazar's last heir... makes no sense, since Slytherin valued pure-blood so much, but Riddle himself was AT LEAST a half-blood!
(10) How did Voldemort hang onto his wand when he was a formless vapor taking over rats in the Albanian forest?
I think I had more questions, but I'll figure them out later as I keep reading.
guardian_kysra says she'll get back to me with it tomorrow (meaning today) and even nekokilala, our newest member of betasquad said she'd give it a look-see! Yayness!News you can use:
I have updated my FFnet profile to include a comprehensive list of all 82 of my fics posted this far... and which ones are Oneshots, which ones are Works in Progress, and which ones are Multi-Chapter Completed Stories. As I JUST posted a new fic "Lover Alone" on
30kisses and ygo_lyricwheel, this FFnet list is subject to change whenever I upload a new story/chapter. So keep your eyes peeled. New information on the profile includes "expected number of chapters," which some people might be interested in knowing.I finished downloading ALL of PGSM! Yay! I have to start burning the CDs... but I'm still burning Rochelle's Inuyasha (which was being a pain today and refusing to let me burn CDs and then not letting me know about it or why), so I don't even know if I'll have enough. Keep in mind that I bought 100 CDs about a month ago. -_- I'm just excited to finally be up to Act 20! I wanna throttle Mamoru, though!
In Jamba news... well, I think I made a bit of a discovery. It's 50/50 when it comes to being "good" or "bad." Remember "C" the co-worker who's younger than me, cute, and I kinda had a bitty-size crush on him? Well a) the other day he joked about my age... I kicked him (not hard) and told him how old I REALLY was (20) and he seemed surprised! I felt bad about kicking him though, and ironically enough, we both apologized at the same time; b) we both closed together, along with "J" who I suspect likes me. I like him as a friend --he's cheered me up when I've needed it, and he does seem to care, but that particular night, not only was I on my rag, but I was thinking about how it's 10 days from the date when it'll have been 10 years since my sister died. So I was kind of quiet. Why do guys make a fuss when girls are bitchy on their period, but if they're quiet and moody instead of yelling and screaming, they seem to get more paranoid? *shrug*
Anyway, I finally made this comment about C being a womanizer, and he actually persisted in knowing who (of the female coworkers) agreed with me. When I named one particular girl, it seemed to get to him, and I deduced that he liked her. Or he at least cares a lot about her opinion... so, womanizer or no, it's not as if I have any reason to be jealous [I already have a boyfriend, I don't date younger guys, and wanting attention from a guy just because other girls were getting it is NOT a good reason to go after someone] and I'm trying to figure out what to do. I intended to tell C that he shouldn't change who he is, I'm sorry for what I said, and that he can and should go after this girl if he wants to-- but he should lay off the flirting with other female co-workers, because as I said, I'm not the only one who's noticed (and been on the receiving end of it).
For the most part, we had an amicable relationship today, but he left pretty quickly (again, without giving me the chance to say anything to him). I felt kind of sour and sad about it for the remainder of my shift, because I kept thinking there was something I could have said, but if he really cared about it, he wouldn't have acted the way he did. "K," the nice lead that's been closing with us these past few nights, is one of the girls C kind of flirted with (even though she's 6 years his senior!) said C probably didn't care. I don't know whether to believe her or not.
I was also thinking about what "J" asked while we were closing-- if I could date anyone in the store, who would it be. J already knows I kind of liked C, so I wondered if he was just asking to get me to admit it. I dodged around the answer, saying I wouldn't take the risk-- and then later saying I just didn't take risks in the summer (people DYING and all). C ended up being the first co-worker I told the truth to about Michelle. He didn't react in any special way, which I guess is what makes it so memorable-- he didn't say "I'm sorry" or "What happened?" or anything. I think he might have said "Oh." I can't be upset or happy about that one way or another.
I wanted to tell C, when we were alone, that I lied to J (augh, now I feel bad about that) and that yeah, I would have gone out with C, if I had the chance. But I neglected to mention that I couldn't and wouldn't cheat on my boyfriend, whom I love very much, crushes and silly things like that aside. "S" and "K" both know I have a boyfriend, I don't think J and C do, though. I wanted to tell C that I did like him a lot initially, but a lot of that feeling has faded, and frankly, the whole "womanizer" thing came from me being jealous that he'd been so nice to me at first, but then he started flirting with other girls and downright ignoring me (ignoring totally, not just ignoring-as-flirt-material). I wanted to say I kind of badgered that girl into agreeing with me that he's a womanizer (she didn't outright disagree with me; she sort of treated the whole thing as a joke) and that if he genuinely liked her, he should say so. I just didn't want to hear it from his lips.
And I worked with that girl today, but I couldn't bring myself to tell HER what I suspect about C, either.
At least all this stuff about fics and things have distracted me enough (until now) where I'm not thinking about it.
But what I am thinking about is Harry Potter, and all these weird questions that have been bubbling in my head since I started reading "Order of the Phoenix" for the second time. So here are my questions under an LJ-CUT... Answer if you can/dare.
(1) Fred and George tried to enter the Triwizard Contest in GoF. The minimum age requirement was 17 years old. Fred and George said they'd turn 17 in April. Everyone got out of school in July-- so they were 17 when Harry went home. By August, when Harry met up with them again at Grimmauld Place, they were STILL 17. So a) is 17 the legal age in the wizarding world? How about Britain? b) is 17 when they take their Apparition tests? Where do they take those tests? c) What year are Fred and George in? I was under the impression that they were 2 years above Harry and Ron, right? So they're in their 7th year when OotP starts?
(2) Is there any place that has the Black family tree actually drawn out? Because the way it was described was just a skosh bit confusing to me...
(3) Am I the only one that thinks Voldemort was behind Petunia's Howler (not that I think he's the type to go to the local Owl Office and write up a Muggle Howler)? I mean, because Remember my last, Petunia just SCREAMS Voldemort. His "last" was Harry's mother-- Petunia's sister.
(4) On a Goblet of Fire note, that whole golden-web thing that Harry and Voldemort did, the Priori Incantantem? How did Cedric come out of that? At the beginning of the Portkey-to-Voldemort "arc" of chapters, Voldemort's voice said "Kill the spare" but I was under the impression that someone else (perhaps Wormtail) did the actual Avada Kedavraing. But if it WAS someone else, how could they have used Voldemort's wand-- the same way that Barty Crouch Jr. used Harry's wand to conjure the Dark Mark? What's the whole point of a Wand being attuned to a certain person if someone else can use it?
(5) Does anyone have an idea on the conversion rate between Galleons, Knuts, Sickles... and like, any money in the real world? I have a hard time envisioning the thousand galleon Triwizard Prize when Harry seems to spend so much money on sweets and stuff in Hogsmeade ANYWAY...
(6) Does anyone else get the impression that Snape might have had a thing for Lily, which would have given him MORE cause to really, really hate James and therefore, Harry? I mean sorry, but a practical joke (even one that almost killed him) seems a bit much to hold a life grudge for.
(7) What Houses do you suppose everyone was in? I mean, Snape was probably in Slytherin and James was probably in Gryffindor, but what about Remus and Sirius? It's not stated directly, is it? And Remus doesn't strike me as the Gryffindor type, anyway...
(8) As for ANY other schools, including Durmstrang and Beauxbatons-- do you suppose they have Houses? If so, which ones? Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor were all about 1000 years ago-- you'd think they'd have been more well-traveled, but if Tom Riddle, Jr. was the direct descendant and last living heir of Salazar Slytherin, that means at least one of the founders never left England (or his family didn't, anyway).
(9) And now for a stupid question-- was I the only one that, upon reading the first few chapters of OotP thought that someone DIFFERENT assumed the identity of Tom Riddle, and that Voldemort wasn't who we thought he was at all? I mean, because I read (again) about some teenage boy going and killing the Riddles and their "grown-up son, Tom" and it wasn't until later that I put 2 and 2 together, and I realize Tom Jr. did the killing, and Tom Sr. was the dead "father." But for a while, I thought that the guy we thought became Voldemort was NOT actually Tom Riddle. Has anyone ever tinkered with this idea? And the whole thing about Riddle being Salazar's last heir... makes no sense, since Slytherin valued pure-blood so much, but Riddle himself was AT LEAST a half-blood!
(10) How did Voldemort hang onto his wand when he was a formless vapor taking over rats in the Albanian forest?
I think I had more questions, but I'll figure them out later as I keep reading.
