1. You're stuck on a desert island. You get one book, one album, and one person. Whom and what do you bring?
Perhaps this is simply because I just read it, but I think that if I brought one book, it would be Watchmen. I know, I know, graphic novel, but I think it counts. It's an incredibly enjoyable read, runs the gamut of emotions, has a surprisingly awesome amount of humor, and I would probably get more out of it with each read.
The one person is easy and I thought of it immediately. My best friend Alec. She might very well be the only person in the world that I never get sick of. She is the optimistic to my pessimistic, which would work well with the whole "oh god oh god stuck on a desert island." And um, we are hilarious when in the same vicinity of each other. HILARIOUS. We would never be bored.
One album? While I love Radiohead with all my heart, they are not a band that I would choose to listen to on a desert island. I think that I would choose Foo Fighters' The Color and the Shape. My favorite Almighty Foos' album, it goes from the haunting "Everlong" to the screaming "Monkey Wrench," and never misses a step. Variety is key.
2. Sort Barty Crouch, Jr. Into which house would send him and why? Sort Barty Crouch Sr. Into which would would you send him and why?
I gave them nicknames that I think you'll understand, so as to avoid any Junior or Senior specification annoyance. ;)
I think that with Tennant!Barty, the decision to join Voldemort was much more reactionary than anything else. He did what he did because he knew it was something his father would stand against, not out of any real surge or desire for power. In that sense, Voldemort was the guiding figure that he could believe in and never had growing up. Tennant!Barty's dedication to Voldemort is largely why I consider him to be a Hufflepuff. It's loyalty further than most would take it, it's the hard work that he put into setting the scene for Voldemort's ~*~resurrection~*~, and that must have been one hell of a work ethic that drove him all the way there.
Cyberman!Barty, on the other hand, is a Slytherin. His public image, an image carefully cultivated to help him on his apparent rise to Minister, was more vital to him than anything else. He didn't care that some of the people that he tossed in Azkaban to rot were potentially innocent (e.g. Sirius), as long as the people viewed him as someone who was capable of protecting them from scum, the sort of person who could make those sort of quick decisions in the interest of the nation. Not even his own son could get in the way. It is Slytherin ambition taken to a sickeningly ruthless extent.
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Date: 2009-03-24 03:40 am (UTC)Perhaps this is simply because I just read it, but I think that if I brought one book, it would be Watchmen. I know, I know, graphic novel, but I think it counts. It's an incredibly enjoyable read, runs the gamut of emotions, has a surprisingly awesome amount of humor, and I would probably get more out of it with each read.
The one person is easy and I thought of it immediately. My best friend Alec. She might very well be the only person in the world that I never get sick of. She is the optimistic to my pessimistic, which would work well with the whole "oh god oh god stuck on a desert island." And um, we are hilarious when in the same vicinity of each other. HILARIOUS. We would never be bored.
One album? While I love Radiohead with all my heart, they are not a band that I would choose to listen to on a desert island. I think that I would choose Foo Fighters' The Color and the Shape. My favorite Almighty Foos' album, it goes from the haunting "Everlong" to the screaming "Monkey Wrench," and never misses a step. Variety is key.
2. Sort Barty Crouch, Jr. Into which house would send him and why? Sort Barty Crouch Sr. Into which would would you send him and why?
I gave them nicknames that I think you'll understand, so as to avoid any Junior or Senior specification annoyance. ;)
I think that with Tennant!Barty, the decision to join Voldemort was much more reactionary than anything else. He did what he did because he knew it was something his father would stand against, not out of any real surge or desire for power. In that sense, Voldemort was the guiding figure that he could believe in and never had growing up. Tennant!Barty's dedication to Voldemort is largely why I consider him to be a Hufflepuff. It's loyalty further than most would take it, it's the hard work that he put into setting the scene for Voldemort's ~*~resurrection~*~, and that must have been one hell of a work ethic that drove him all the way there.
Cyberman!Barty, on the other hand, is a Slytherin. His public image, an image carefully cultivated to help him on his apparent rise to Minister, was more vital to him than anything else. He didn't care that some of the people that he tossed in Azkaban to rot were potentially innocent (e.g. Sirius), as long as the people viewed him as someone who was capable of protecting them from scum, the sort of person who could make those sort of quick decisions in the interest of the nation. Not even his own son could get in the way. It is Slytherin ambition taken to a sickeningly ruthless extent.