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Name: Lina
Age: 19
House you were sorted into: Slytherin
Link to original application: http://www.livejournal.com/community/platform_934/161591.html#cutid1

Are there any questions you would like to elaborate on?

Ah yes, yes there are, but now the question is, how many questions am I going to elaborate on?
Okay, I’ll settle and only do two.

What is the one thing you would most like to accomplish?
One thing? Wow, I’ll really have to think about that. I could say that I’d really just like to be happy doing whatever I’m meant to, but that sounds incredibly cliché and thus I do not want to say it. Perhaps the better choice would be to say the other thing I’d like accomplish which is to travel to every country in the world (even the one’s where it is too dangerous for me to go).
What I meant by this answer is I just don’t want to set foot in every country and merely have a stamp in my passport, but that I want to spend time in each country, I want to get to know about the native people, the history, the culture. I want to see the world, to know the world, to experience it, because I know that living in America tends to give one an inflated idea of self importance and immunity and I want to see life from the eyes of people who haven’t had everything handed to them on a silver platter, who’s ideas and beliefs aren’t similar to mine. I believe that that is the greatest thing that could ever happen. I don’t care if I see the great monuments, such as the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall (which are both cool in their own), but I know that those things are still important to the whole experience. I want to see each country through the eyes of the people who live there and if I can help to better their lives while I’m there, then it just makes the whole experience better for everyone involved, because I don’t want me to be the only one getting something out of it. I want it to be an exchange of culture, ideas, and a symbiotic and beneficial relationship.

What do you think are your top five weaknesses or worst qualities?
My top five weaknesses would have to be the way that I am incredibly critical of others (especially if I think that they are not living up to their full potential), my short temper, my tendency to procrastinate, how I am occasionally self-centered, and my lack of faith in the dependability of others.
Okay, before I continue, I should that when I say that these are my “worst” qualities, by mean that others might frown upon them, but I think that they serve to make me a better person by helping to teach me that no person is without flaws. I know that these are my flaws. My flaws are pretty major. A lack of faith of others doesn’t mean that I don’t trust them, it just means that half of the time I think that it would be faster if I did the job instead of someone else. I believe that teamwork is a good thing, and I know that I need to work on it. I’m not an egotistical and narcissistic person, but sometimes, I have the tendency to think of things from my perspective before others, but I’m easily snapped out of that. However there’s no excuse for my procrastination. Seriously, it will be the death of me one day. I’m absolutely horrible about it, I push things to the absolute last minute and then rush to get things done and face no consequences. I do have a short temper, but I’m getting better, and I won’t take it out people who don’t deserve it. I usually take it out on myself or the teevee. Perhaps, the news. The government. It depends. My critical nature only comes out when I think that people can do better. I want everyone to be their best, but I won’t be mean just to be mean. I won’t put someone down for the hell of it. I’m too nice for that. And when I want someone to do better and critique them, I give them constructive criticism, because I want them to get better.

Explain why you feel misplaced in your current House!

Okay, I just want to say that I love and adore Slytherin and think that it’s cool that I got sorted into it in the first place. With that said, I just feel that I’m too outgoing, laid back, and bubbly for Slytherin. I mean, I am an active member and participate in multiple different community events and challenges, but I have a very bubbly and vibrant personality and I haven’t really bonded with anyone in my house, even though I’ve tried. Sure, it’s only been a month and I could give it more time, but I don’t think that I have a very similar personality to many of my housemates. True, I think that the more cynical and sarcastic aspects of my nature could get along just fine, but that’s only a very small fraction of my being. I’m loud, friendly, outgoing, like to laugh at stupid things and usually the one is prone to doing things before thinking them through. I don’t think before I speak and I don’t do what is best for everyone, I do what I feel is right, regardless of the consequences and nine times out of ten I pay the price for it. I’m opinionated, stubborn as all hell, I won’t tell someone something that isn’t true, but I’m a nice person, and I won’t say something to just be mean, because there’s too much meanness in the world to begin with. People nitpick and fight with each other everyday, and I don’t get how someone can do that as it just stresses out everyone around you. I’m incredibly laid back, and know that life is easier if just taken in stride. I accept everyone, and think that you can learn more from someone with whom you share more differences than similarities. Everyone’s different, it’s easier to just accept such things and revel, love, appreciate, and learn from the differences than to hate them. I know that Snakes are supposed to want the best of everything, but in all honesty, I couldn’t care less. I know that I have a lot of snake like traits, but there are several traits that I have that just plain contradict Slytherin. I’m bouncy. I have a smile constantly plastered across my face. I giggle. A lot. I’m sure, that it annoys a lot of people, but I love it. I make a lot of off-kilter, somewhat inappropriate comments, that their only purpose is to lighten the mood and to make people laugh, and sometimes I succeed.

What would you see in the Mirror of Erised? Be exact with your descriptions!

The thing is, to be perfectly honest, I have no idea. I’m nineteen years old, and I’m completely clueless. I have frivolous dreams and wishes that skim the surface every now and then, things like how it’d be cool to write a best selling fiction novel, or to be actress. Then there’s the wish of my childhood when I wanted my parents to get back together and be happy, which I know is completely wrong and awful thing to wish. There’s the wish of six months ago, where I wished that I could go to my aunt’s funeral when she died suddenly, and then there’s the wish that my childhood best friend had had the chance to grow up. But honestly, I don’t know what I’d see now. Whatever I saw, it’d be a complete shock. I know that I wouldn’t see myself having the storybook life, because I know that sometimes the greatest things come from the flaws. Maybe, if I had to really think about it, to wish really hard, to pick and choose and be stupid about it, I just want to be happy. No matter happens. To have people who love me in my life and to have graduated college and grad school (if I still want to go there) and perhaps be on the Daily Show (look I’ve gone moronic). But truth be told, I just want to be happy, the details don’t matter to me.

What makes you unique?

What makes me unique is my ability to be comfortable in a multitude of situations. A situation can be awkward and uncomfortable for all the participants, yet I will try and break the ice and work to make it better and more relaxing more everyone. I’m willing to trying new things and open to alternative points of view and so being in a new situation is just a means to learn more about the world around me and about other people. If someone is uncomfortable in such a place, I’ll crack (appropriate or innappropriate) jokes, ask questions, start games, do almost anything to get the flow going and try and get people interacting make sure that everyone is getting the most out of a situation. I know that life is what you make it and so I try to make the most out of it and get stay very relaxed in new places. Sometimes, I’m so laid back about new things, its obnoxious (seriously, I’ve been told to knock it off and get scared).

Current Mood: anxious

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From:

hackergroupie.livejournal.com

I’m loud, friendly, outgoing, like to laugh at stupid things and usually the one is prone to doing things before thinking them through.

I should start off by noting that *I* am friendly, loud and outgoing. If only you could see how often I draw the attention of every single person sitting at the Starbucks patio because of it.

That said, I'm not too happy to see your appeal here as you are one of our point earning snakes. But if you're really not connecting, I suppose I can understand.

My question: What house do you think best suits you and why?

From:

lookslikelove

Now, I hate answering this question, because I know that regardless of the fact that I am answering what it asks, it still feels like I’m pushing and I hate that. So, I’m going to throw caution to the wind and answer this question straight. I think the house that best suits me is Gryffindor. And now the omnipresent why. The reason is because I am the equal opportunity fangirl. I mean, I like pirates, as well as ninjas (though pirates more, because Johnny Depp is the sex). I’m incredibly prone to doing what I feel in the right thing regardless of whether or not is the right thing. I like to write NP porn, especially of the kink variety, and I think that there is a greater calling for that in Gryffindor than in any other house. I’m laid back, fun loving, and I love pulling pranks. I once saran wrapped a group of my friends’ cars, just for fun because they were grounded. I always stand up for what I believe in and defend those who can’t help themselves. I can’t call myself brave, but I can call myself stupid to the point where I’ll just go ahead and do something, regardless of the consequences and if that is bravery, then I guess I’m brave. I’m incredibly impulsive. I once grabbed Michael Phelps’ ass because I thought it was a good idea at the time. I like to run and jump fully clothed into lakes I don’t own and don’t who owns them (aka am trespassing on). If I get involved in a cause, I have to lead the cause. I organize and protest and make sure that everyone knows about it. I once started an underground newspaper because as the editor of my high school newspaper I felt that I was being too censored and that the student body had the right to know the full truth and to have their opinions known. I know that actions speak louder than words and therefore half the time I do before I speak. I’ve been none to get so over the top passionate about things, that I was once called Napoleona (because I wanted to rule the world so that the world would be the right way). As I stated above, I’m an equal opportunity fangirl; I love everyone and everything. I’m probably insane, as this incoherent response is now indicating, and I just so happen to think that Gryffindor, with all of it's whacky pirate love, would be the best place for me. I can be absolutely obnoxiously insane with them and love every minute of it.

From:

autre.livejournal.com

I once grabbed Michael Phelps’ ass because I thought it was a good idea at the time.

HOLY CRAP HECK YES. YOU ROCK.

From:

jupluna.livejournal.com

I too am sorry to see this application up here. I'm giddy and bubbly, dammit. XD

If you truly don't feel you belong with us though I'd like to know this:
What HP character do you feel most connected with personality wise and why?

From:

lookslikelove

Okay, this is a difficult question because I can relate to different characters at different times. But after reading HPB (don’t worry, there will be no spoilers here), I can safely say that there is one character that a good portion of my personality has found a sister in Nymphadora Tonks. She’s a showman, constantly changing her appearance to make others laugh and to blend in with different situations. She’s a chameleon. She’s bubbly, vibrant, clumsy, a bit wise beyond her years, and a rebel. I adapt to my surroundings and the people I’m with. I’m always changing bits and pieces of me to make whomever I’m with comfortable. I never change the entire thing, I’m still myself, tried and true, I just know how to blend it and still stand out at the same time. I like to make people laugh, to put smiles on the faces. I’m clumsy as all get out, which is really odd, as I’m a very tiny person. I’m a rebel with a cause (there are multiple), and come from a family who’s doesn’t approve of what my mother did with her life, just as the Blacks don’t approve of Tonks’ mother. My entire life I've been faced with a family that won't accept me because of the actions my mother's committed and sure, I don't want to be part of such a family, that kind of rejection still hurts. I’m determined, dedicated, and willing to try my damnedest to defend my cause, but I also know the value of laughter. I can stand out in a crowd just as easily as I can blend into one, and I’m not going to let go of something I love even when I’m told I should.

From:

tangerinesidhe.livejournal.com

Questions... questions...

1. What is your dream job and why?

2. What would be your favorite class at Hogwarts (and why)?

3. Would you put your name in the goblet of fire? why or why not.

And... Ok. I'll stop asking so many questions... I think I'm trying to make up for being slack at asking on the last application.

From:

lookslikelove

To be perfectly and blatantly honest, my dream job would be to work on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I know that that doesn’t sound like such a lofty ambition and perhaps in the grand scheme of things, it’s not, but still, if I got to be on that show for even just a week, I could, would die, very happy. Or if the Daily Show doesn’t work out, I hear that Stephen Colbert is getting his own show called the Colbert Réport, and that would be just as great.

Now why either of those shows? Because I love Jon Stewart and I love Stephen Colbert and watching the Daily Show at night is pretty much one of the best parts of my day. The perfect blend of real news, comedy, and fake news, is just perfect, and I love how they just seem to point out the pure idiocy of modern American media. It’s great. I find it to be one of the funniest things in existence and they actually use really information as a basis of their comedy, which is just cool and makes everything better.

That and working with either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert would mean that I could die very happy.

From:

lookslikelove

Hmm. Now, that means I have to go to class, right? Well, since that does, I guess it’d have to be Transfiguration because I’ve always thought that it would be really cool to be able to turn one object into something else completely different, no matter how small or frivolous. There are so many different times when I had a pen and needed a pencil or had pencil and want a pen and the use of transfiguration would’ve been so handy to have at those moments. The concept is just so fascinating and to tell the truth, I’d probably be tempted to use the skill for stupid things ala Seamus Finnigan, but I’d still have fun and love it none the less.

From:

lookslikelove

Yes, yes I would, in a heartbeat. And since you demand a reason, I’ll give you one: because I have nothing to lose by doing so. There are two outcomes to my putting my name in the Goblet of Fire: either my name gets pulled from it and I get to compete in a life changing, totally amazing, once in a lifetime competition or it doesn’t and nothing changes. I can’t lose. It’s impossible. Sure, I could (theoretically) lose my life by competing, but I would never know unless I tried, and trying never hurt anyone. So, I’d do it and I’d always have the ‘hey, that could’ve been me’ story rather than ‘well, I never tried’ one.

From:

ledbylove.livejournal.com

asking my usual:

what are the defining traits of each house?

how do you fit these traits?

how do you not fit these traits?

From:

lookslikelove

Hufflepuff: loyal, patient , kind, generous, honest, mellow, timid, watchers rather than doers

Ravenclaw: bookish, quiet, uptight, by-the-book, smart, thinkers, creative, knowitalls

Slytherin: ambitious, outspoken, sarcastic, pragmatic, dark, scary, cunning

Gryffindor: brave, friendly, bouncy, over-the-top, outgoing, funny, leaders, doers rather than watchers, determined

From:

lookslikelove

Hufflepuff:

Okay, when someone earns my trust and becomes my friend; I will be loyal to them until the ends of the Earth. I will do anything for them and help them out in anyway possible. I’m a really laid back person and I can just take things in stride. I’m honest to the point where’s it almost a flaw. I’m a generous person, always giving to charity, my time, my money, and other necessary things. I’m somewhat bookish, in the fact that I always know what is going on in the world, as I feel that that is very, very important.

Ravenclaw:

I guess that you could say that I am a smart person. I know a lot of really random facts and what not and have read a lot of books. Amongst some of my geekier traits, I have won numerous fact contests, so those are just a few things that fit the Ravenclaw ideal. I’m a creative person. I write stories, and make up characters all the time; something I’ve done since I was a child.

Slytherin:

I’m about as outspoken as people can come. Well, not really, but I come pretty close. If I’m thinking something, I’ll say it out loud; there is no inner filter, nothing stopping me. I have the most twisted and dark sense of humor in existence. I tend to find the really creepy things delightfully funny. I’m so sarcastic, I’m obnoxious. Seriously, half the time no one knows if I’m telling the truth or kidding. I love sarcasm, I believe that great people appreciate the value of good sarcasm. It’s a beautiful thing. I’m ambitious. If I want something, I’ll try my hardest to get it.

Gryffindor:

I think I’ve already said that I don’t consider myself brave, though others might say that I am. I am stupid to the point where it looks like bravery, but I don’t think bravery can be determined by oneself. It’s like calling oneself ‘funny’. It just doesn’t work. I can’t say I’m funny, because that is just an incredibly narcissistic thing to say, though I have been called funny by others. I think it’s because of some of the really random things I’ve said and done. Like I’ve sat on top of a stone cow and waved at passersby, while riding the cow and smacking it’s behind. I’m a friendly person; I introduce myself to complete strangers and have even given kisses and hugs to people I don’t know (they were rockstars & I didn't ask for it). I take control of every situation I’m and lead the group.

From:

lookslikelove

I'm going to be straight forward and say this before I post this last part as an explaination. I see myself in all of the houses. It's true. Any well balanced, well adjusted person should be able to say that, so that's why this part is shorter than any of the others. With that said, some this stuff might seem like a reiteration of things said else and in a way it is. So be it.

Hufflepuff:

I’m so impatient it hurts. If I want something, I want it then, but half the time I don’t want to go get it. I will go get it eventually, but I don’t want to have to wait for it. In comparison to the Puffs, I look like a righteous bitch. Seriously, they make me look like a horrible person, but I love them anyways. I’m bold, and willing to go for the gold if I want it.

Ravenclaw:

I’m not uptight at all. I’m laidback, carefree, I enjoy having fun, and hate studying. I’m wise beyond my years, but it’s not wisdom in the sense of books which is what Ravenclaw is known for, it’s real world knowledge. I’ve been in the world and I know what it’s like and I want to change it. I can’t sit still and let things happen when I can be out there fixing things. I’m a loudmouth.

Slytherin:

I’m not that dark. I’m light and bubbly and giddy. I giggle, a lot. I won’t step on people to get what I want. I’m not that practical of a person. I dream big and think big and usually am very unrealistic. I’m not that crafty. I don’t think of ways to swindle people. I like people too much, and if I want something from them, I can usually get it by asking straight out; no gimmicks involved.

Gryffindor:

I don’t think that I’m that over the top. I know when to back off and when to keep cool. I when to stay cool and keep calm. I know where the line is and when not to cross it. I don’t consider myself to be brave. I believe bravery has to be earned, it’s not something that you can just generically call yourself. If you could, then everyone would do that and it would me nothing. So, I don’t see myself as brave. I haven’t done anything worth it.