Awesome...
I recently found out that a form of Muggle Quidditch has caught on at Middlebury University which is the alma mater of both the new parents pictured below. There are several ways people can play as listed here, but I love Middlebury's version of dressing a cross country runner in bright yellow with a ball hanging from his back and letting him run wild around the campus. Another cool idea which I'd like to see in practice is a remote control airplane operated by an impartial viewer. But it's so much fun seeing people tackle the snitch and see the snitch fight back. Harry would definitely be too much of a lightweight for Muggle Quidditch.
See a movie of the fun below featuring an interview with an actual snitch who has some pretty mad moves (backflips, handstands and everything). I generally hate sports but this I would watch!
Question of the Week: If you're a Harry Potter fan (which quite a few of my friends are) which house would you be in? I'd be in Hufflepuff. Go badgers!
Special offer! If you respond to this post I'll play the sorting hat and tell you if I agree with your choice or, if what I know about you, indicates you'd be in a different house. Or if you do not choose a house I'll tell you which one I think you're in.
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Ravenclaw?
Hmm...difficult choice. There's courage and a great potential for greatness. And intelligence too, oh yes... ;)
But as a biased sorting hat I'd lean towards Hufflepuff so you'd be in my house. Of course, just because I'd put someone in a house other than Hufflepuff doesn't mean I don't want them around. It just means I see traits in them that more strongly represent another. Also I think you're a loyal friend and a hard worker. But as Dumbledore said "It is our choices Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities." So if you think you would want to be in Ravenclaw then you're probably right. And we could still hang out in the Great Hall. ;)
:) Neat game! Had to stop watching though because the Master of Ceremonies or whatnot seemed too pretentious describing it. (By the way, I am not past "Prisoner" yet, though these are the next books I am planning to catch up on, so don't tell me much of the last stories!)
I think I'm a Ravenclaw too, but not sure. It's been a while since I last read them!
Speaking of which, I doubt you watch TV, but there is a copyright case going down regarding a Harry Potter Lexicon that is being published by a company in Michigan. They are going to court today against Rowling. I'm not sure who to root for here as one could argue the dictionary is a derivitive work, but it also need the Harry Potter franchaise to be understood. I hate to see Rowling's lawyers squeeze out the little guy, but I've also got to respect copyright if they did go through all the hoops to cover themselves. I'm also still a tad miffed I had the same idea she did at the same time, but I was only 16, so my one novel attempt at something similar to HP never got published. Oh for being ten years older then!
I'd agree, you're Ravenclaw. You're definitely better at Stats than me anyway but I think, more importantly, you care about understanding it far more than I do (part of the reason I dropped out).
Well, watching muggle Qudditch won't spoil the books in any way, I promise. And Prisoner is my favorite of all the books but I definitely recommend reading the rest. Probably the best Ravenclaw character is introduced in the 5th one. But I won't tell you any more than that.
As for the lawsuit, yeah, I've known about it for a long time now. I listen to a weekly Harry Potter podcast, so any Harry Potter news, from the price of Equus seats to the contents of the latest J.K. Rowling Documentary I know in gory detail. Actually the guy being sued, Steve Vander Ark, used to be on the podcast I listen to so I definitely noticed when he vanished. And it was really hard on the podcasters because he was a good friend of theirs but his publishing company has done some really sketchy things. Like they claimed they needed time off from the trial because the head of the company had a family tragedy but then they used that time to advertise the book and they absolutely refused to show J.K. Rowling the contents of the book and were downright rude when asked politely. All that aside, from what the publisher said, the book would be nothing but a print version of the hp lexicon which is basically just a collection of copyrighted material, quotes and information from the books arranged in dictionary format. It's useful but Steve should have known it wasn't publishable. Really there's no excuse for his blatant breakage of copyright since he's a school librarian and they're supposed to understand copyright. My opinion is also based simply from reading the case files because the news site I read is still really leary of visibly taking sides although they recently had to distance themselves from Steve due to their beliefs on what this trial meant being too different.
J.K. Rowling has been more than tolerant of her fans. There are dozens of books at least about Harry Potter, but she's allowed this because they're new opinions and literary criticism. Fair use. But she also allows Wizard Rock which they do sell and she doesn't make a cent from which I think is extraordinarily lenient of her. As a writer myself maybe I'm biased toward protecting copyright, but that's just how I feel. I don't see this as the big guy (or lady) trying to crush the little guy. Otherwise there were so many other people she could have crushed. Really I see this as a sad last resort.
I don't know if I can root for someone because I wish it had never happened in the first place since it's such a bad thing for all those involved. But I would tend to side with Rowling on this.
Ooh, what house do you think I would be in? But you have to answer in the form of a poem, because that's what the sorting hat does. Of course, it can be a bad poem, because, well, that's what the sorting hat does.
I'm sort of surprised you chose Hufflepuff--I would have put you in Ravenclaw, or possibly Gryffindor. Shows what I know!
For Brian I'd choose Ravenclaw
for he has hands, not paws
and values learning more than me,
enough to get a PhD!
(Okay, the second line's a bit Zen Monkey but I think I'm at least in league with the hat.)
As for me, I think I'm patently Hufflepuff because the only thing that has gotten me through life is hard work and loyalty. They're also the traits I most value in myself. I may be intelligent but academic learning, which is generally seen as the standard of knowledge, does not come easily or naturally to me and I don't generally enjoy it. As for Gryffindor, bravery is very admirable, and I'd like to think I'd have it should the occasion call for it, but I'm a practical person, and in day to day life I use hard work far more than bravery.
Awesome! Thanks, Cherie! And you are definitely in league with that hat--or perhaps some unholy alliance between the hat and the zen monkey...
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