Saturday, August 29, 2009

An Epic Harry Potter Meme

As of now, most who gander at my blog won't really care for or be able to easily appreciate this post, but for the scarce few (Mackenzie, I'm not pointedly looking in your direction.) who do care for and "get" this sort of stuff--ENJOY and please do this too!

Also, a quick note: meme (mēm) n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.


Thank you, dictionary.com!


A Harry Potter Meme


List the books in order from your favorite to your least favorite.


Man, this is too hard! I'm sure I'll disagree with this in time...but...


1.Deathly Hollows
2.Half Blood Prince
3.Order of the Phoenix
4.Goblet of Fire
5.Prisoner of Azkaban
6.Philosopher's Stone
7. Chamber of Secrets


List the movies in order from your favorite to your least favorite.


For me, they really seem to improve with each one.


1.Half Blood Prince
2.Order of the Phoenix
3.Goblet of Fire
4.Prisoner of Azkaban
5.Chamber of Secrets
6.Philosopher's Stone

Favorite chapter from your favorite book?: "The Prince's Tale--bar-frikin'-none.


Top 5 favorite characters?


How in the world can I narrow it down to three?! There's at least 20-30 I want to put!


1.Severus Snape
2.Luna Lovegood
3.Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
4.Harry Potter
5.Lily Potter


Five least favorite characters?


Maybe I'm just slow, but does this mean characters that are bad/evil and/or characters that just bug me--bad or good? Um, I'll go with characters that bug me.


1.Dolores Umbridge
2.Rita Skeeter
3. Vernon Dursley
4.Bellatrix Lestrange
5.Zacharias Smith

Favorite member of the Golden Trio?: Ah, man, I love 'em all. I'll say Harry. He doesn't get enough love.
Favorite family?:The Weasley Family--Heck yes!
Favorite antagonist?: Either Snape or Voldemort
Favorite Death Eater?:Severus Snape

Three favorite spells?
1.Expecto Patronum
2.Animagus Transfiguration
3.Bond of Blood

Three favorite potions?
1.Felix Felicis
2.Polyjuice Potion
3.Amortentia


Five favorite quotes:

Bah! Could they make this any harder?!


1."You've been so brave."

2."Look at me."

3."Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."

4.""Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans --"

5.“What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does."


Favorite non-Hogwarts magical building?
The Ministry of Magic--particulary the Department of Mysteries

Favorite Diagon Alley shop?
Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes

Favorite Hogsmeade Shop?
Honeydukes Sweetshop or The Three Broomsticks

Favorite Unforgivable Curse?
Avada Kedavra

Favorite mode of wizard transportation?
Broomsticks or Thestrals

Favorite Weasley?
Ron

Favorite Order Member?
Severus Snape

Favorite DA Member?

Darn. Hard to choose.

Neville Longbottom or Luna Lovegood

Favorite pet?
Fawkes

Favorite Hogwarts room?
The Great Hall or the Room of Requirement

Favorite Hogwarts professor?
Remus Lupin

Favorite non-human Hogwarts resident?
Kreacher

Favorite Tri-Wizard Champion?
Harry. (Sorry, Cedric. Harry had to put up with a lot of flack in that book--even though you kinda died...)

Favorite house elf?
Kreacher! Dobby's okay, but not super developed.

Favorite wizard sweet?
Fizzing Whizbees

Favorite couple?
Ron and Hermione or Snape and Lily (I don't think they really became a couple, but yeh know, it was a sweet relationship/friendship they had.)

Biggest surprise of the series?
Probably Moody's true identity at the end of Goblet of Fire or Harry's or Fred's death. Or...Nagini camping out in Bathilda Bagshot

Biggest letdown of the series?
Hm. I dunno... I don't think I was really ever let down. Not finding out more about "the locked room" or the "death veil" in The Department of Mysteries was a bummer. I was dying to hear all about that.

One character you wish lived?
Snape. But at the same time, he was so miserable and didn't seem to have anything left to live for...so maybe death was sort of necessary for him. He could finally "relax" and not spend his life living as a double-agent. Or Fred. That was way sad! Dang I hated having any of the Weasleys die. Or Dumbledore or Sirius. Yep, that's only one...

Moment that will always make you cry?
It's weird. I cry a lot sometimes, but hardly EVER from a book or movie. I had to really get into the book (the last one) the second time to tear up. That would be when Harry's taking his last walk into the forest. The narrative is absolutely beautiful and heart-breaking.

Your Patronus would be______?
I wish I knew! Perhaps a doe?

Three things Amortentia would smell like to you:
Straight-out-of-the-oven homemade bread, freshly-fallen rain, and very old book pages

You would use Felix Felicis to______?
I have no clue! Save it for a rainy day, perhaps? Or, as someone else said, to win a lottery, but I don't really want that much money. It'd be overwhelming and weird sorta. I don't need THAT much. Maybe a small lottery? :D

Job you would most like to try?
Not sure. Never really thought of it ... Probably a professor and/or writer? Maybe taking care of magical creatures?

Ron/Hermione or Harry/Hermione?
Ron/Hermione! Are so many people that blind and deaf?!

James/Lily or Snape/Lily?
James/Lily as a couple and Lily/Snape as very good friends

Do you think Harry Potter is better than Twilight?
Very much so. But at the same time, they are too different and unique to compare. But I much prefer Harry Potter over Twilight when it comes down to it.

Are you going to go see the Half Blood Prince in theaters?
Already seen it 3 times

Do you own the books/movies?
Yep.

Have you ever played any of the video games?
No, not really.

Do you think it would be cool to have a pet owl?
Freakin' heck yes!

How about a rat?
Um, maybe.

Have you ever listened to the soundtrack?
Yes! I love them. Especially the 1st, and 4th-6th

Which house would you want to be in?
Gryffindor Not sure if I'd really get in, but yeah...

Do you like Draco?
Um, in some ways. He's good as a antagonist/bully of sorts. So to speak, he gets the job done. He's really a jerky character, but he's not completely evil. Just raised to be predjudiced and arrogant to those different than him. He's not exactly plesant--especially in the first four books. But he starts fleshing out as a real young man with a terrifying mission to complete. This makes me like him and sympathize for him.

Would you ever enter the Triwizard tournament?
Um, if I'd been previously going to Hogwarts for 6 years, maybe.

Would you keep your money in Gringotts?
Uh, if I lived in London...sure.

What class would be your favorite?
Care of Magical Creatures, DADA, and Transfiguration

Do you think you would enjoy being a witch/wizard?
Fo' sho!


I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did filling it in. I'd love to read yours too!

*hint* *hint*


*wink* *wink*


*stab* *stab*


*shoot* *shoot*


*impale* *impale*


*disfigure* *disfigure*



...Okay, I'll stop.

3 comments:

Kathy said...

This was fun to read. I think my biggest disappointment was not finding out the "Golden Trio's" careers. I really wanted to know.

Annette said...

I thought "meme" was the language of GI Joe...."me me me me me me me me me"

Mary Anne said...

Hey, Kathy. This wasn't answered in the book, but J.K. Rowling made these statements which should help relieve some of that disappointment. I don't think this info was too widely known.

Harry became an Auror at the age of 17 and eventually became head of the Auror Office in 2007 (BLC, JKR).

Following Voldemort’s defeat, Harry, Neville and Ron were recruited by Minister Shacklebolt to be Aurors, and seek out the remaining Death Eaters (Today1, PC/JKR1). Ron also helped George run the hugely successful Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes shop (BLC). Sometime between 1998 and 2005, Ron married Hermione, with whom he had two children, Rose and Hugo (DH/e). And in the end, he got the fame he had desired ever since the Mirror of Erised showed him as Head Boy – and got his picture on a Chocolate Frog card (BLC).

Unlike Harry, Neville and Ron, she did not join Shacklebolt's Ministry right away. Hermione went back to Hogwarts so she could finish her schooling properly, and take her N.E.W.T.s (PC/JKR1).

Hermione was hired by the Ministry’s Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures where she played an important role in improving the quality of life for house-elves and other disenfranchised creatures. Later, she worked for Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement where she worked to put an end to pro-pureblood laws that had been so entrenched in Wizarding society.

Mom, you're such a card...