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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.
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1. The tournament took place during the end of October to the end of the year, and Fred and George were 16 then. But they'll be turning 17 during the year when the tournament ends. So yeah, I guess that they take the Apparation test when they're 17 and I'm thinking that they take it at one of the Departments in the Ministry of Magic. But er, for Britain, I don't exactly know. And they WERE in the 7th year during OotP, but they left half way through. Even I wouldn't be able to stand Doloris XD
2. I think that it was in the hallway after the heads of the house-elves. Or was it upstairs?
3. Or Dumboldore could be referring to the "last" letter that he enclosed along with baby Harry when Petunia took him in. But it could also be Voldemort's voice. No one knows for sure (only J.K.R.)
4. Well, I'm guessing that since Wormtail was assumed "dead", so was his wand. So he's stuck with using Voldemort's to kill Cedric. And I don't think that everyone's wand would exactly be "attuned" to the correct owner because Serveus and Lupin managed to use other's wands to conjure spells. So... I'm assuming that anyone with magical talent is able to use any wand? (Harry did blow up some equipment while trying out for a wand at Olivanders!)
5. I think Hagrid lightly explained the values in the first book, chapter 5? (Diagon Alley) Something about this amount of Knuts = a Sickle and this amount of Sickle and Knuts = a Galleon
6. *coughs* Well, I thought that Lily had a thing for Snape.... ^^; After all, she did act quite sour after he called her a "mudblood" when she was trying to help him (in the fifth book). I never saw Snape as the one to be jealous of a female.
7. I think that Remus could have fitted well into Ravenclaw. Hufflepuff seems a bit too... nice for Sirius and Remus, so maybe Gryffindor for Sirius. But I'm guessing that Wormtail is from Slytherin as well...
8. Eh, Beauxbatons doesn't strike me as a divided school. It is an all girls' academy so I guess they do everything as a whole school. As does Durmstrang, being an all boys'.
And I don't think that any of the creators of Hogwarts left. They needed to protect the school and teach the students... but then Salazar did disappear-- or was he banished?-- from Hogwarts and sunk deeper into the dark arts. And maybe the rest of the descendents never had a chance to last till Harry's generation! (Or James could've been Gryffindor's last descendent...?)
9. Maybe it was his mother? who was the last heir and then he was "crowned" in the next book as "the half-blood prince"??? All the possibilities... x.X Drives me insane.
10. Haha, good question. Hm... the Accio spell? Or he has some sorta levitation hand with him. Who knows? He surprises us in every single book.
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As for the whole Knuts/Sickles/Galleons thing, I know how they relate to one ANOTHER; I was wondering if anyone knew how many galleons might relate to a US dollar or something.
With the Snape/Lily thing, I thought HE had a thing for HER, and defaulted on the "mudblood" thing when she didn't go for him, but James instead (because even though James teased her too, it was obviously flirty-teasing).
And finally, with the Black family tree, I meant like an actual picture- you know, someone who took JKRs words and decided to draw an actual family tree... X_X
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1) 17 is the age when they leave school, so therefore it is the age where they are considered adults, so yes. I'm not quite sure about the Apparition tests, but I would asume it would be 17 too. Fred and George are in their 7th year in OotP. They just don't graduate.
2) To the best of my knowledge, no, but it might be somewhere out there. Sirius DOES have rabid fans...
3) Well it was Dumbledore who sent the Howler, so I think you might be the only one. ^^;;
4) JKR screwed up the entire wand bit on GoF, so I wouldn't be surprised if it just an accident in her writing.
5) I DO know that $5.99 = 14 sickles and 3 knuts but aside from that I don't think there's been an actual conversion rate mentioned.
6) I think that Snape was just a prat in school and hated everyone cuz they picked on him.
7) I'm pretty sure that they've stated the Marauders as all being in Gryffindor somewhere, but I can't recall where. Lupin always struck me as a Ravenclaw type. Snape was definately Slytherin.
8) I think that the other schools probably have their own houses named after their founders.
9) I knew that Tom was named after his father, so no for me, but I do know a few people who were confused.
10) Cuz he's Voldemort and JKR said so! XD
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1) a) I read a whole article on this subject, and if I remember correctly, in Britain, you are of legal age at 17. So Jo probably translated this into wizarding terms. :) b) The apparition tests are taken at the Ministry of Magic. At some point, when Harry and Arthur are there for Harry's hearing and are in the elevator, I believe one of the floors mentioned is the one where the tests are administered. c) Yeah, F&G are 17, which means they would have been starting their seventh year.
2) Not that I know of, but I don't think anyone other than Jo herself knows the entire thing. Sirius really only mentioned the important names, and kinda left the others out.
3) That's a really, really interesting idea - one I'd never thought of! And I would say I am inclined to agree, except Dumbledore admits he sent it at the end of Phoenix, doesn't he? Or Harry asks him and he acknowledges that. One thing that bothers me about the Howler is that Harry didn't recognize the voice - and Jo specifically states in Chamber that he recognizes Mrs. Weasley's voice in CoS.
4) Wands are switched around a lot - it's not that you can't use another wizard's wand, it's just that you will never get as good of results, since the "wand picks the wizard". Wand-swapping, whether intentional or un, happens a lot. Ron had his brother's old wand and it worked well enough - and that wand got used by Lockhart (even if it did backfire on him). Neville uses his dad's old wand, too. Wormtail, in all likelihood, was probably using Voldemort's wand when Cedric was killed. He lived 12 years as a rat (and presumably never changed into a human, once, since he was in the company of the Weasley family the entire time) and it is unlikely he had his wand at any place where he could get to it. And as Voldy was pretty much useless before his transformation in the graveyard, it pretty likely Wormtail was using Voldy's wand.
5) Well, a thousand Galleons, I would guess, is somewhere close to several tens of thousands of dollars. I doubt it's as little $1= 1 galleon, because Ron complains in Phoenix how he never has any Galleons, and as poor as the Weasley's are, it doesn't seem as if they are that poor. Besides, Ron has SOME money - he spends it at Hogsmeade, the Quidditch World Cup, etc. - but the fact that he is so thrilled by the faux Galleons Hermione uses in Phoenix, makes me think it's a fairly large amount. Maybe somewhere between $20 - 50? Which would put the Tournament prize at about $20,000 or so. I would think the Twins would need at least that much to get a substantial joke shop started.
OK, that one was a lot longer than I had intended. Moving on...
6) I wonder about Snape/ Lily too, and for exactly the same reasons, but I don't think there is any really hard evidence to make much of a case - just a few suspicions and a lot of reading between lines that may, or may not, be there. There is a pretty good article on Veritaserum dot com about this that I just read, which makes a good case and fits in a lot of pieces without leaving a lot of holes.
7) JKR states in an interview that Lupin, Sirius and James were all in Gryffindor.
8) I dunno - I guess we don't know because only a fraction of the students from each school actually came for the tournament, so even if they did, it would seem that they wouldn't be divided once they got to Hogwarts, as it would be pointless. And the text really doesn't give us much idea, either...
9) Ack, I thought the same thing! I was so confused! I don't remember when it's explained (maybe the graveyard scene in Goblet, when Voldy has transformed and is explaining to all the details of his life?), but I thought originally that the Tom Riddle in the scene was the young teenager from CoS and, yeah, that another person came and killed them and that was Voldy and he somehow assumed Riddle's identity. In fact, that presents an interesting theory... hm.... *ponder ponder ponder*
10) Ummm. Good question. Maybe it's like the space pockets the senshi have?
This was long and only fueled my fire. Damn you Mer! *shakes fist in your general direction*
Hee.
I'm at Veritaserum.com now-- where's this article?
Interesting thing I just discovered-- the terrorists that attacked those buses in London supposedly congregated at King's Cross station... HMM! (Buncha Muggle-haters!)
And by any chance do you know why I can't change my icon when posting comments? /.\
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Hope this helps some...
2) I think there was a one on hp-lexicon.org.
3) No, it had to have been Dumbledore. He never directly lies to Harry. But I'm pretty sure we'll learn more about it in HBP.
4) Any witch/wizard can use any wand, but each witch/wizard responds best to his or her own want if the wand 'chose' them.
5) No idea.
6) I think he did have some feelings for her - but he wasn't supposed to, as she was muggle-born. That's why he was bitter. But no one can say for sure except JKR.
7) Yes, Snape was a Slytherin, as he is the head of Slytherin house. And I'm quite sure that Peter, Remus, Sirius and James were all Gryffindor's. It would have been hard for them to become so close otherwise. And, most people are more then one house. Hermione is Gryffclaw, Harry Gryfferin, etc... The Houses are not simple at all. There is even a theroy that Voldemort wasn't Slytherin.
8) Quite possibly. GOF gave us so much to work with; but left so many questions.
9) No, clearly Voldemort is Tom - his interactions with Dumbledore show that. And, 1000 years ago Slytherin's feelings were understandable, and so much was at risk. However, purebloodedness doesn't when you're sorted. It's true that Slytherins do hold those ideals - but only the ones we know of. Basically, now, the hat looks for the traits over heritage now.
10) There have been a number of theorys, I imagine. And we'll probably learn it in the next two books.