1. You're stuck on a desert island. You get one book, one album, and one person. Whom and what do you bring? I bring my sister. She was my sister, my best friend, my most trusted person ever since we were growing up. She is the top of my list of those who are my people, and we already have the goal of living in the same metropolitan area if we can, in the future. She is the only person I have ever taken into account when deciding where to go for what I want, and to what lengths. She is not a factor that would make me abandon my goals, or decide against taking a great opportunity, but if I can get a great opportunity near her – so much the better.
I would bring the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, my favorite novel and the original distopia novel. I can read it and reread it many times over and over again, and every time I still cannot put it down. It shows what the State can become, an awfully good prediction for many things in the Soviet Union, even if it never got such complete power over every aspect of everyone’s lives. “I” is an excellent character, smart and manipulative, who tries to get the power she needs to change the system to suit her needs. Yet the book is realistic, even if it is science fiction. It tells us about human nature, about power, and about what can happen when things go wrong (I'm being purposefully vague here for those who have not read it). And I would bring Dropkick Murphys – The Warrior’s Code as the album. Back when I had a car and drove around in it, small town days, it was the only album I could listen to on repeat endlessly without wanting to go nuts or stab the thing.
2. Sort Barty Crouch, Jr. Into which house would you send him and why? Sort Barty Crouch Sr. Into which would you send him and why? I consider Barty Crouch Jr. a Hufflepuff. In my personal interpretation of him, he is of what people would call the “Zacharias” type Hufflepuff. He is not nice. He is mocking, not just critical, but mocking of everyone. And in that way he is “fair” – he does it to them all. I get that trait from his ability to perfectly impersonate Alastor Moody. No one is that good without practice. He is incredibly intelligent – 12 OWLs – which is an incredible amount of work, no matter how much of a genius he is. And while his morals are twisted into the view of blood purity, he is just by his standards. After all, we have seen that Hufflepuffs can be evil. And he is most definitely unafraid of toil. The Dark Lord gets taken down, and he is one of the few who still continues to search for him, he remains loyal. He fights off the Imperius Curse, despite having been weak and sick and in Azkaban. He manages to do this through hard work and he keeps going toward his goals. The Dark Lord is a twisted baby looking thing, but he is still sure of the course, that the Dark Lord will come back powerful, and he shies away from no job. He is a pretty incredible evil Huffepuff.
Barty Crouch Sr. however is a Slytherin, in my opinion. He has ambition in spades – working up the Auror ranks with the goal of becoming Minister of Magic. And by gollie gee, he is going to get it. Sure he is one of the “good guys” then, but oh he has guts of steel and is most definitely willing to do anything to get what he wants. That man was willing to play as hardball as the Death Eaters, only with him it was “morally right” because the law was on his side. We may dislike the cause he was fighting against, but he still was willing to use any means. He even put his son away without a second thought. Yet despite how few people matter to him, he does have the very Slytherin selective loyalty, only his loyalties apply only to his wife. She is the reason he helps get Barty out of prison. Again, for her, he is willing to do anything with any means.
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Date: 2009-04-02 08:20 pm (UTC)I would bring the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, my favorite novel and the original distopia novel. I can read it and reread it many times over and over again, and every time I still cannot put it down. It shows what the State can become, an awfully good prediction for many things in the Soviet Union, even if it never got such complete power over every aspect of everyone’s lives. “I” is an excellent character, smart and manipulative, who tries to get the power she needs to change the system to suit her needs. Yet the book is realistic, even if it is science fiction. It tells us about human nature, about power, and about what can happen when things go wrong (I'm being purposefully vague here for those who have not read it). And I would bring Dropkick Murphys – The Warrior’s Code as the album. Back when I had a car and drove around in it, small town days, it was the only album I could listen to on repeat endlessly without wanting to go nuts or stab the thing.
2. Sort Barty Crouch, Jr. Into which house would you send him and why? Sort Barty Crouch Sr. Into which would you send him and why? I consider Barty Crouch Jr. a Hufflepuff. In my personal interpretation of him, he is of what people would call the “Zacharias” type Hufflepuff. He is not nice. He is mocking, not just critical, but mocking of everyone. And in that way he is “fair” – he does it to them all. I get that trait from his ability to perfectly impersonate Alastor Moody. No one is that good without practice. He is incredibly intelligent – 12 OWLs – which is an incredible amount of work, no matter how much of a genius he is. And while his morals are twisted into the view of blood purity, he is just by his standards. After all, we have seen that Hufflepuffs can be evil. And he is most definitely unafraid of toil. The Dark Lord gets taken down, and he is one of the few who still continues to search for him, he remains loyal. He fights off the Imperius Curse, despite having been weak and sick and in Azkaban. He manages to do this through hard work and he keeps going toward his goals. The Dark Lord is a twisted baby looking thing, but he is still sure of the course, that the Dark Lord will come back powerful, and he shies away from no job. He is a pretty incredible evil Huffepuff.
Barty Crouch Sr. however is a Slytherin, in my opinion. He has ambition in spades – working up the Auror ranks with the goal of becoming Minister of Magic. And by gollie gee, he is going to get it. Sure he is one of the “good guys” then, but oh he has guts of steel and is most definitely willing to do anything to get what he wants. That man was willing to play as hardball as the Death Eaters, only with him it was “morally right” because the law was on his side. We may dislike the cause he was fighting against, but he still was willing to use any means. He even put his son away without a second thought. Yet despite how few people matter to him, he does have the very Slytherin selective loyalty, only his loyalties apply only to his wife. She is the reason he helps get Barty out of prison. Again, for her, he is willing to do anything with any means.