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[wondergal23.livejournal.com]

Name: Jill/wondergal23
Age: 23
House you were sorted into: Hufflepuff
Link to original application: http://www.livejournal.com/community/platform_934/125470.html#cutid1
Are there any questions you would like to elaborate on?
There are two.
What do you want to do for a living?
I want to design/ build costumes. I love theatre but I could never be an actress, I can't handle all those people looking at me. This way I'm involved and people look at my work and not at me.
I want to design/build costumes, but more and more I want to be a fashion designer. And even though I don't neccissarily want people staring at me I want them to look at my work and give me praise or critique. I still like attention just not focused on me but my work. I feel when I am acting they are judging me and not my work.
What do you think are your top five weaknesses or worst qualities?
I can be too flexible almost to the point where im hurting mytself to make sure others are happy. I am very trusting of people, almost too trusting. I will give my heart to anyone who demands it even if they have already crushed it once. I also lack some self confidence. I think it comes from not want to look boastful, but I often don't give myself credit when I have earned it. I am also horrid with money. I'm not comepletely sure what it says about me but I never seem to have the money I need to have the things I need, like milk. Also, my need for putting myself in other people's shoes makes many of my friends mad when all they want is for me to agree with them that they have been wronged by another person.

I definitely lack self confidence. But not in a way that means I look for other's approval before I do things. I usually do whatever it is that I want to do, but often when relooking at my actions I start to wonder if I had acted to rashly or if I should have done whatever it is I did.
This leads to something that I hadn't mentioned the first time, my hot-headedness. People will try to argue with me and I will either defend my point until death or I will explode and walk away. And these explosions are often along the lines of, "You're right, it is all my fault, I'll get out of your life now!"
This ties in closely to the looking at things from other's points of view. If my friend had a grievance with a customer at work I will be like, "Well they could have been having a bad day themselves." and, "What if it didnt come out of your mouth the way you said it did to them." and I will stay like that until my friends explode and point out that they just want me to be on their side for once and listen.
And while I am only too willing to put others before myself, its not neccissarily because I have their best interests at heart. I often do this because it makes me feel better to know that people are happy.
It is deffinitely true however that I will keep giving my heart to people who continually break it. I will have friends who break my trust and I shy away from them but then when I'm about to cut the string that they are holding me on, they reel me back in. I don't know why I do it, I'm a glutton for punishment I guess.

Explain why you feel misplaced in your current House!
Honestly I can see from my application that I hold many Hufflepuff qualities. And when I was first placed in the house just over two months ago, I was really excited. I joined clubs, I posted in my common room, I made icons, I voted on applications, I participated in In-house competitions, I wanted to show Hufflepuff Pride and earn as many points for the house that I could. I wasn't really making any friends in the community but I didn't mind so much, I had this bizzare idea that somehow everyone in my house new each other in real life and I just wasn't there.
Then the Gryffindors pranked us. I thought it was very funny, I actually sat at my computer reading everything outloud in my best pirate accents and drove my roommate nuts. I was far too busy having fun to either realize they were clues or to completely understand what needed to happen to the pirate theme to go away. That's when I started going to the common room and finding people complaining and whinning and badmouthing the Gryffindors. I couldn't understand how people could possibly be taking this prank to heart. It was meant to be fun and these people were not having fun. I think I have only checked my common room twice since this period, it just left such a bad taste in my mouth. I then began to start thinking that if these people were taking a prank so seriously then maybe I don't really belong with them.
I feel that I haven't been able to be as active as I would like because I am no longer feeling the Hufflepuff Pride. I haven't completely stopped participating and have even joined now_playing and started meeting new people. I started researching my options, thought about maybe joining a different community and then came accross this option. I just wanted to try this so that I could possibly try to be happy and start to meet some interesting people in this community. If it works out that I don't change houses I will probably just try to rediscover my Hufflepuff pride because I really do like this community.
What would you see in the Mirror of Erised? Be exact with your descriptions! I hope this doesn't come out too morbid but I would see my grandmother in her hospital bed just before she died. I would be with her saying goodbye. More than anything else I desire being able to say goodbye to her proplerly with a hug and kiss rather than over the phone like it really happened. I thought of saying that I wanted her to be alive in the mirror but I know she was in a lot of pain with her cancer and that wouldn't be very fair to her.
What makes you unique?
My sense of humor. I can be very sarcastic and goofy or I can be very dry and witty. I have often been asked, "Why don't you want to be an actress,Jill? You're really funny." I have no problem doing a pratt fall or tap dancing goofily just to lighten someones day. I have even written a ten minute play thinking, "Two working class chickens trying to cross the road is rteally funny, I'll throw in Frogger for good measure." What came out was a play where my proffessor actually laughed (which is rare for him to do) and then commented that it was very existentialistic, in a "Waiting For Godot" kinda way. I really think it all comes from my roll with the punches attitude. If you take life so seriously, how can you possibly have any fun?

Comments

[dear-prudence.livejournal.com]

In your opinion, what are the key differences between the houses of Hufflepuff and Gryffindor?

[wondergal23.livejournal.com]

For me the key difference between a Gryffindor and a Hufflepuff is in how they interact with others. A Hufflepuff is more of a team player. They are going to try to work with everyone and anyone to get a job done. They will probably avoid conflict as it is the good thing to do in order to keep others happy. While a Hufflepuff would gladly give you the shirt of of their own back, this does not make them pushovers; they are more people pleasers than anything, and have the good goals of seeing everyone being the happiest they can possibly be. A Gryffindor on the other hand wants to do what they want to do. They could be the only person in the world who thinks they have the right idea on something and that alone can be enough to act on it. This does not make the Gryffindor disagreeable with every one all the time, it just means that they don't neccessarily need the support of others to do what they think is right. A Gryffindor doesn't always think of how the consequences of their actions will effect others.

I hope that is enough, I could probably expand a bit more but I'm not the greatest writer and I don't to lose my point in more rambling than neccessary. Just let me know.

[hackergroupie.livejournal.com]

Another question: If we believe you'd best be placed in another house you disagree with or even the original house you've been sorted into, how do you think you'll react?

[wondergal23.livejournal.com]

No matter what house you all decide to place me I will find a way to be happy with the decision because I do truely like this community. I understand that I posses qualities from all the houses, I think most everyone does, it all just depends on what aspects you present more fully to the rest of the world. I'm not saying lying or hiding facts or anything, I'm saying more of why we value things that seem like other house values. Such as saying you value intelligence because the smarter you are the farther in life you will be able to go. This could be rather Ravenclaw or Slytherin depending on what else the person has to say. That being said I haven't completely ruled out any house as one I could not belong in. While I have a hard time picturing myself as a Slytherin, if I was placed there I would probably look through the answers I am giving to see where it came from. If I am indeed placed back in Hufflepuff, I will try very hard to find a way to find the Hufflepuff pride I had when I first started the community.

[autre.livejournal.com]

Was it just your disliking of how a few Puffs responded to the prank that made you suddenly want to change Houses, or was there more to it?

[wondergal23.livejournal.com]

When I first joined the community I was very nervous, almost as though it was the first day at a new school. I'm a bit odd like that. This means when the voting was all done and I was placed in Hufflepuff, I was happy that I wasn't the kid that no one wanted on their sports team in gym class. So I got to the common room and I introduced myself and I started getting involved. I would go into my common room periodically to welcome others or to with Proffessor Sprout a happy birthday, but I always felt a bit left out like I didn't really belong. Like I stated above I coped with this by picturing that all of the Hufflepuffs really knew each other in real life and not just in the online community. The response to the prank is just more a more concrete example of how I'm not feeling like I belong, rather than just my gut saying, "there's something off here". I hope that explains it.

[tangerinesidhe.livejournal.com]

Think of a key trait of each of the houses that you posess, and explain.

Then, list a reason why you *don't* belong in each of the four houses.

:)

[wondergal23.livejournal.com]

I've been looking at the Sorting contest (http://www.livejournal.com/community/hogwartsishome/46831.html#cutid1) for the traits and I have come up with the following.

Hufflepuff
Pro: I have empathy. I do look at how situations look and seem to others. I care about that. I will listen to my friends tell me a situation from their day and I sit there and try to see it from the other's view. Not my friend but the customer or the employee that my friend interacted with. I try to look at the situation from that point of view and point out to my friend how that other person may have felt in that same situation. When I reflect upon interactions with my friends I try to see how they might have taken the interaction.
Con: I am not patient. Ever. I hate having to explain the same thing to the same people over and over. If someone isn't understanding the directions I am giving them I would much rather do things myself. An example is my trying to help my sister understand math. I explained it to her the same way her teacher did, I showed her the shortcuts, I reworded things so that it was less confusing to understand, she still didn't understand and I got frustrated. I also have this three strikes and your out rule. If I tell someone not to do something twice and it happens again, lord help them. It's never a physical action I take against them, but they sure won't ever try it a fourth time.

Ravenclaw
Pro:I feel that I am rather knowledgeable. I know a lot of stuff, it's just not all important stuff. I may not know the atomic weight of Uranium, but I do know that a twelve pack of soda weighs approxamately ten pounds. What I know makes for lively thought provoking conversation that people often go to books or the internet to see if my bizzaro facts are true. The only aspect in which my knowledge isn't completely useless (unless we're talking Jeopardy, in which case my lack of knowing the atomic weight of Uranium isn't helping) is in costuming and fashion history. I can tell you where the bell bottom style originally came from, a theory as to why they became popular in the 60's and 70's, and how to alter a regular pants pattern so that you can make bell bottoms. It takes a bit of research to get the facts into my head but once they are there they never completely leave.
Con: I don't consider myself studious. I have always hated homework, not the studying per-say but the needing to convey to a teacher that I have learned something (I have always been better at test taking than projects and writing). I love researching, I always want to find the most information I can on any given subject, but once it comes time to write it all down into a paper I become discouraged and disgruntled. I have always been told by teachers that if I would just do my homework I would get an A, but I would always say that I was fine with a B.

[wondergal23.livejournal.com]

and the rest:

Slytherin
Pro:I am ambitious. I have set myself with some lofty goals. Designing for Broadway, creating a line of clothing or accessories, opening some sort of costuming business with a friend of mine. Even when I was little I wanted to be a Physicist and win a Nobel Prize for my work. I have always dreamed big, but with time the dreams have changed. I always work hard toward what I want at the time.
Con:hmmm...I didn't think this one was going to be so hard...lets see. I was going to say that I wasn't cunning, but after looking up the definition in the dictionary to be sure I had a true grasp on the word, I can be cunning in my own way. And I am oppinionated, stubborn, out-spoken, mysterious, devious, and cynical all to various degrees and not more than anything else. I guess I will have to go with Sinister. I don't ever intend to be evil or mean. It just sometimes comes out that way. I never go into a situation thinking "Oh wouldn't it be perfectly glorious to say how horrible so-and-so's hair is just to see their reaction." It might slip like, "oh my what have you done to your hair?!" like my inner monologue turned off for a split second. I'm never really intentionally malicious to someone, except once in fifth grade, and I still feel very guilty about it.

Gryffindor
Pro:I am a leader. It may not be your usual "listen to what I'm telling you and do what I say" kind of leader. I am more of a leader by example. People look to me to see what I am doing and act accordingly. I used to get praised for this when I was at summer camp and I didn't really understand what it meant until I got to college. It's just as important to lead people through your actions as it is to tell them what to do.
Con:I don't consider myself to be very charismatic. People don't have a hard time saying no to me. I could never sell your grandmother a pair of lowrise jeans and a midriff revealing shirt (sorry for any visuals its just this thing we say of my very charismatic friend Anthony). It takes a lot of work on my part to convince people that they really need to do what I am asking them to do, such as quieting down at a rehearsal or mopping the floor at work, and many times requires me to beg, plead, bribe (with cookies or candy never money) or make deals with people (such as if you do this for me now I'll do that for you later)

[sffl.livejournal.com]

The Judges have decided that you should stay in Hufflepuff and not move into another house.