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So...Ravenclaw then? :-D
That poll was so funny I made a new icon. That claw in the picture is the closest I could find to a raven--and at least it's closer than a fricken' eagle. What is up with that? I sometimes suspect it's just a case of corvid discrimination--ravens are associated with death and dark magic. Eagles are brave. I mean, it's a school for witchcraft. Why would you avoid the raven? Lion, Badger, Raven and Snake...makes it sound more like two against two to me, somehow. (ETA: My new conspiracy theory being that eventually the Ravenclaws will be revealed to have been the real bad guys, fanning the flames between Slytherin and Gryffindor and then feeding on the corpses! Mwahahaha!)
I'm happy to see I have people from all four houses on my flist, and they're all cool. And no doubt there are people everywhere who would fit into all four houses who are completely annoying.
As for speaking about "my own" house, it's funny...I always get the feeling Ravenclaw's a little suspicious. Not that this bothers me at all. I remember doing a post on FAP pre-OotP where I said that while I had no proof whatsoever of this, I always felt like if the houses were ranked Ravenclaw would be the closest to Slytherin, with intelligence and cunning both being a little dodgy because it's your heart that's most important. Like I said, I had no real reason for feeling that way, but I was sure not surprised to see Marietta (and Cho) turn out to be the bad guys in the DA. Well, first I was amazed anybody fell for Zach Smith being the bad guy. First, he was completely upfront all the time. And second, he really didn't challenge Harry's ideals. He challenged Harry's *strength* and basically demanded that Harry make him trust him, but his pov but he wasn't questioning any principles. If he was asking questions for real answers, Harry and the others could hardly shut him up with one-liners. They'd have to explain things. Zach tests Harry's authority and Harry passes.
It's a very different thing from the little we know about Marietta, which is that she has a mother who works at the Ministry and isn't sure her mother isn't right. Marietta doesn't ask questions, she just observes sourly. With Cho, too, more than once I've heard people get angry at her for "trying to get Harry on her side" about Marietta when I really don't think Cho asks Harry to be on her side at all. She asks him to understand where Marietta is coming from, to put her actions in context with the rest of her personality: she's a lovely person, she just made a mistake. I just thought it was interesting given that I always got this vibe that people act mostly out of their head (which Hermione does not) are suspicious, and that trying to understand the other side is probably considered the first step towards joining it.
Meanwhile, last night I went to see The Dying Gaul. an as-yet unfinished movie written and directed by Craig Lucas starring Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard. Actually, it was a tribute to Campbell Scott and I was helping out![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Celebs in attendence were Craig Lucas, Campbell Scott, Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson, Mary Louise Parker and a couple of Baldwin brothers. But the best person was somebody I saw--or heard--beforehand. I got a bite to eat in the cafeteria with the SAB students, so it was me and a lot of tiny girls with buns and pretty boys eating salads and frozen yogurt. Next to me there was a bunch of kids, one of whom was explaining how when he turned 18 he came into his trust fund of a million dollars. I didn't catch exactly where this money came from, but his siblings got that much money too, though sadly, mom and dad were cut out of it. They seemed to be doing okay, though, because they owned several buildings, including the one in which they occupied a couple of floors. Trusty (as I called him) had never done anything for himself, but he was not planning to just live off his wealth. No, he was going to go to college for fashion and then for journalism so he could write for some publication I didn't catch--Vogue? (Strangely, he appeared to be saying this to impress the girls at his table.)
My favorite part was when he explained he'd never made a meal for himself, but he had watched his cook make his meals, did that count? Why did he watch the cook making his meals? the others wanted to know. "Well," he said. "Sometimes the cook fucks up and I have to make him do it again." Btw, he totally looked like he could be Draco. Hee!
That poll was so funny I made a new icon. That claw in the picture is the closest I could find to a raven--and at least it's closer than a fricken' eagle. What is up with that? I sometimes suspect it's just a case of corvid discrimination--ravens are associated with death and dark magic. Eagles are brave. I mean, it's a school for witchcraft. Why would you avoid the raven? Lion, Badger, Raven and Snake...makes it sound more like two against two to me, somehow. (ETA: My new conspiracy theory being that eventually the Ravenclaws will be revealed to have been the real bad guys, fanning the flames between Slytherin and Gryffindor and then feeding on the corpses! Mwahahaha!)
I'm happy to see I have people from all four houses on my flist, and they're all cool. And no doubt there are people everywhere who would fit into all four houses who are completely annoying.
As for speaking about "my own" house, it's funny...I always get the feeling Ravenclaw's a little suspicious. Not that this bothers me at all. I remember doing a post on FAP pre-OotP where I said that while I had no proof whatsoever of this, I always felt like if the houses were ranked Ravenclaw would be the closest to Slytherin, with intelligence and cunning both being a little dodgy because it's your heart that's most important. Like I said, I had no real reason for feeling that way, but I was sure not surprised to see Marietta (and Cho) turn out to be the bad guys in the DA. Well, first I was amazed anybody fell for Zach Smith being the bad guy. First, he was completely upfront all the time. And second, he really didn't challenge Harry's ideals. He challenged Harry's *strength* and basically demanded that Harry make him trust him, but his pov but he wasn't questioning any principles. If he was asking questions for real answers, Harry and the others could hardly shut him up with one-liners. They'd have to explain things. Zach tests Harry's authority and Harry passes.
It's a very different thing from the little we know about Marietta, which is that she has a mother who works at the Ministry and isn't sure her mother isn't right. Marietta doesn't ask questions, she just observes sourly. With Cho, too, more than once I've heard people get angry at her for "trying to get Harry on her side" about Marietta when I really don't think Cho asks Harry to be on her side at all. She asks him to understand where Marietta is coming from, to put her actions in context with the rest of her personality: she's a lovely person, she just made a mistake. I just thought it was interesting given that I always got this vibe that people act mostly out of their head (which Hermione does not) are suspicious, and that trying to understand the other side is probably considered the first step towards joining it.
Meanwhile, last night I went to see The Dying Gaul. an as-yet unfinished movie written and directed by Craig Lucas starring Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard. Actually, it was a tribute to Campbell Scott and I was helping out
petitesoeur. Celebs in attendence were Craig Lucas, Campbell Scott, Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson, Mary Louise Parker and a couple of Baldwin brothers. But the best person was somebody I saw--or heard--beforehand. I got a bite to eat in the cafeteria with the SAB students, so it was me and a lot of tiny girls with buns and pretty boys eating salads and frozen yogurt. Next to me there was a bunch of kids, one of whom was explaining how when he turned 18 he came into his trust fund of a million dollars. I didn't catch exactly where this money came from, but his siblings got that much money too, though sadly, mom and dad were cut out of it. They seemed to be doing okay, though, because they owned several buildings, including the one in which they occupied a couple of floors. Trusty (as I called him) had never done anything for himself, but he was not planning to just live off his wealth. No, he was going to go to college for fashion and then for journalism so he could write for some publication I didn't catch--Vogue? (Strangely, he appeared to be saying this to impress the girls at his table.)
My favorite part was when he explained he'd never made a meal for himself, but he had watched his cook make his meals, did that count? Why did he watch the cook making his meals? the others wanted to know. "Well," he said. "Sometimes the cook fucks up and I have to make him do it again." Btw, he totally looked like he could be Draco. Hee!
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Heh--I sort of love the idea that the more interesting Ravenclaws are friends with Slytherins. It's fun to think of that house as being the one that mixes most with other houses, seeing no reason to be super loyal to only the people you sleep close to in school. So there'd be some who were friends with Gryffindors (and perhaps didn't have all the best things to say about that), some with Hufflepuffs, some with Slytherins.
Hence the need for a 'forbidden' section in the Library. And according to Sirius, wasn't the very fact that Snape knew dark curses and spells proof of his untrusworthiness.
Yup--and Hermione gets a pass to that forbidden section because she's "good," so couldn't possibly be using what she learns there to bad ends.
For some reason, that reminds me of that joke where the teacher asks the children to right an essay about a poor family, and Spoiled Little Rich Kid wrote 'There was once a Very Poor Family. The father was poor, the mother was poor, the kids were poor, the chauffeur was poor, the maid was poor, the nanny was poor, etc...'
LOL! It's like that line from "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" where one character says something like, "Think of the millions and millions of people in the world, laborers and all, who get along with only two maids."
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