An appealing appeal?
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hih_appealsName: Tori.
Age: 22.
House you were sorted into: Ravenclaw.
Link to original application: Here
Are there any questions you would like to elaborate on?
Yep, these ones:
What HP character do you identify with most and why?
Original answer
Hermione, I think, because she's a lot like me when I was a little girl, even down to the sticky-out teeth. I identify with her intelligence, her being able to fit in with two boys as her best friends and not go down the girly stereotype route, she's proved can hold her own with the boys (I had a lot of male friends when I was a child too). She's a tough little cookie, and a loyal friend, with a lot of ambition to succeed in her studies. I can also identify with Snape and his love of subtlety - I adore the things he said about the human mind, the Dark Arts and his description of Potions, with all the little nuances and shades of meaning. I also love his snarky sense of humour, as I can be quite snarky at times too.
Elaboration
I do somewhat still relate to Hermione, but I find myself relating to Snape more and more, for the reasons I detailed in my application and a few others. Namely ambition (well what else do you say about someone who continuously applied for the same teaching position over fourteen years and was rejected but kept going?), I'm able to shut off my feelings but I have a vicious temper when provoked, and I bear nasty grudges if people hurt me. The not-exactly-happy school life I can relate to, since mine wasn't exactly a bed of roses either, I was the "weird kid", but I didn't change to suit other people. Being purely trivial I almost always wear black and I appear to have Snape's ability to flounce into a room, hurling the door open rather than just walking in *grin*. I also find myself making rather Phineas-esque comments when confronted with teenage drama XD
What was your ideal job as a kid? Has that changed? What is your ideal job now?
Original answer
I changed my ideas of what I wanted to do so much when I was a child, but the one job I wanted to do when I was a child and didn't change my mind about for a long time was wanting to be a counsellor. I wanted to help people and make them better. Now, however, my ideal job would be as a lecturer/teacher/researcher in psychology. Still somewhat related to helping people, but the research side of being a university lecturer (which is my ultimate aim) would also give me a bit of detachment from people. As I've grown up I've started to realise that I'm more important than other people, and I used to put others before me, but now I put myself before all else. I'd love to pass on and impart my knowledge and make a difference in peoples' lives, to give people knowledge, ambition and power to go and make something of their lives, but I don't want to counsel them full time because I think most people are selfish anyway and won't listen to me. I don't see the point in wasting time on them if they're not going to listen: at least with teaching I can learn along the way and advance myself as a person as well.
Elaboration
In addition to the whole aspect of helping people, I'd want to influence my students. I want to make my mark on the world, but more than that I want to make a mark that will last for years, decades, as long as it can possibly last, and I'd want to do that through my students. I want to be a doctor and then a professor, to have people cite my work and theories in their essays/books/articles, and I want my name to be known not only through my deeds, but also through the deeds and accomplishments of those I teach.
If you were to face a boggart, what would it turn into? And what does it turn into when you throw the counter-spell, Riddikulus?
Original answer
I'm not entirely sure what form it would take, but it would represent lack of power/control. Something like Snape's Worst Memory I think, as that chapter always gets to me because of the lack of power Snape has, and that's the sort of situation I would really hate and fear. I think the person/representation of what was taking my power and control would become deaf, blind and mute and be stumbling around falling over things.
Elaboration
On consideration, while I do still find the lack of power and control concept rather scary, I think my boggart would more likely be me working in a dead-end job with no career prospects, and a family of kids. Basically I wouldn't want to turn into a lot of the people I grew up with. I wouldn't see that I'd achieved anything in my life by being like that, because what I want for my life *isn't* kids and a job that just pays the bills, I'm a career woman through and through. With regards to the counter curse, all the kids would turn into playful kittens, although I haven't the foggiest what the job would turn into, I think perhaps the whole idea of this is too scary for me to think about XD
Explain why you feel misplaced in your current House!
I do like to think with logic, and to learn, but logic and learning are more used (like everything in my life other than family and friends), to achieve my goals rather than for the love of them. Mainly I don't feel as though I have the insatiable thirst for knowledge that Ravenclaws should have. I like a good debate every now and again, but I don't necessarily always enjoy the process of learning. Sometimes the process can feel a bit arduous because it's not getting me to my goals fast enough, and I'm more about the result of what I'm doing than the process I've used to get that result. I see 'claws as being about both the process *and* the result equally, or more about the process, whereas I'm more results-focused but without missing the details of the process that might be useful. Again though that's as a means to advance myself, because I don't want to miss bits of the process that could be useful by only focusing on the goal.
Also I'm not a very dreamy person, and I do see 'claws as quite dreamy, and rather romantic, from the canon 'claws we see. Not exactly romantic in a chocolates and flowers sort of way (I'd probably like that, I'm rather partial to chocolates of any description, and while I'd prefer diamonds to flowers, flowers still prettify a room ;)), but more romantic in a head-in-the-clouds sort of way, and I'm not like that, I'm way more practical, and I use the intelligence I have to more practical means rather than lots of thinking.
What would you see in the Mirror of Erised? Be exact with your descriptions!
Myself as head of a university department, a Criminal Psychology professor, author of books and journal articles and an authority on my subject. I'd see myself with enough money to have classy clothes, a nice car and a beautiful flat with an employed maid to do my cleaning (hell let's throw in a whole army of servants to cater for all my needs while I'm away being brilliant and being hostess to people who adore me, this is the Mirror of Erised after all).
What makes you unique?
My ability to be close to people without getting too attached, I can always keep up my defences and I look after myself first. I'm highly self-aware, very perceptive and a mass of contradictions. I'm quite an optimist (although that's more to do with an internal locus of control, a strong belief in personal responsibility and a lot of self-confidence; I KNOW I can do whatever I set my mind to and being miserable will not do anything for me) but hugely cynical too, a loyal and dedicated friend to those who deserve that loyalty and dedication but at heart a very individualistic person (I will always put me first), and very realistic about how the world works. I don't see the world through rose-tinted glasses but I don't feel despondent about the more unsavoury aspects of life, I can take it all and make it work for me, and I think that makes me rather unique as a lot of people I've met see things in black and white, bad and good terms.
Age: 22.
House you were sorted into: Ravenclaw.
Link to original application: Here
Are there any questions you would like to elaborate on?
Yep, these ones:
What HP character do you identify with most and why?
Original answer
Hermione, I think, because she's a lot like me when I was a little girl, even down to the sticky-out teeth. I identify with her intelligence, her being able to fit in with two boys as her best friends and not go down the girly stereotype route, she's proved can hold her own with the boys (I had a lot of male friends when I was a child too). She's a tough little cookie, and a loyal friend, with a lot of ambition to succeed in her studies. I can also identify with Snape and his love of subtlety - I adore the things he said about the human mind, the Dark Arts and his description of Potions, with all the little nuances and shades of meaning. I also love his snarky sense of humour, as I can be quite snarky at times too.
Elaboration
I do somewhat still relate to Hermione, but I find myself relating to Snape more and more, for the reasons I detailed in my application and a few others. Namely ambition (well what else do you say about someone who continuously applied for the same teaching position over fourteen years and was rejected but kept going?), I'm able to shut off my feelings but I have a vicious temper when provoked, and I bear nasty grudges if people hurt me. The not-exactly-happy school life I can relate to, since mine wasn't exactly a bed of roses either, I was the "weird kid", but I didn't change to suit other people. Being purely trivial I almost always wear black and I appear to have Snape's ability to flounce into a room, hurling the door open rather than just walking in *grin*. I also find myself making rather Phineas-esque comments when confronted with teenage drama XD
What was your ideal job as a kid? Has that changed? What is your ideal job now?
Original answer
I changed my ideas of what I wanted to do so much when I was a child, but the one job I wanted to do when I was a child and didn't change my mind about for a long time was wanting to be a counsellor. I wanted to help people and make them better. Now, however, my ideal job would be as a lecturer/teacher/researcher in psychology. Still somewhat related to helping people, but the research side of being a university lecturer (which is my ultimate aim) would also give me a bit of detachment from people. As I've grown up I've started to realise that I'm more important than other people, and I used to put others before me, but now I put myself before all else. I'd love to pass on and impart my knowledge and make a difference in peoples' lives, to give people knowledge, ambition and power to go and make something of their lives, but I don't want to counsel them full time because I think most people are selfish anyway and won't listen to me. I don't see the point in wasting time on them if they're not going to listen: at least with teaching I can learn along the way and advance myself as a person as well.
Elaboration
In addition to the whole aspect of helping people, I'd want to influence my students. I want to make my mark on the world, but more than that I want to make a mark that will last for years, decades, as long as it can possibly last, and I'd want to do that through my students. I want to be a doctor and then a professor, to have people cite my work and theories in their essays/books/articles, and I want my name to be known not only through my deeds, but also through the deeds and accomplishments of those I teach.
If you were to face a boggart, what would it turn into? And what does it turn into when you throw the counter-spell, Riddikulus?
Original answer
I'm not entirely sure what form it would take, but it would represent lack of power/control. Something like Snape's Worst Memory I think, as that chapter always gets to me because of the lack of power Snape has, and that's the sort of situation I would really hate and fear. I think the person/representation of what was taking my power and control would become deaf, blind and mute and be stumbling around falling over things.
Elaboration
On consideration, while I do still find the lack of power and control concept rather scary, I think my boggart would more likely be me working in a dead-end job with no career prospects, and a family of kids. Basically I wouldn't want to turn into a lot of the people I grew up with. I wouldn't see that I'd achieved anything in my life by being like that, because what I want for my life *isn't* kids and a job that just pays the bills, I'm a career woman through and through. With regards to the counter curse, all the kids would turn into playful kittens, although I haven't the foggiest what the job would turn into, I think perhaps the whole idea of this is too scary for me to think about XD
Explain why you feel misplaced in your current House!
I do like to think with logic, and to learn, but logic and learning are more used (like everything in my life other than family and friends), to achieve my goals rather than for the love of them. Mainly I don't feel as though I have the insatiable thirst for knowledge that Ravenclaws should have. I like a good debate every now and again, but I don't necessarily always enjoy the process of learning. Sometimes the process can feel a bit arduous because it's not getting me to my goals fast enough, and I'm more about the result of what I'm doing than the process I've used to get that result. I see 'claws as being about both the process *and* the result equally, or more about the process, whereas I'm more results-focused but without missing the details of the process that might be useful. Again though that's as a means to advance myself, because I don't want to miss bits of the process that could be useful by only focusing on the goal.
Also I'm not a very dreamy person, and I do see 'claws as quite dreamy, and rather romantic, from the canon 'claws we see. Not exactly romantic in a chocolates and flowers sort of way (I'd probably like that, I'm rather partial to chocolates of any description, and while I'd prefer diamonds to flowers, flowers still prettify a room ;)), but more romantic in a head-in-the-clouds sort of way, and I'm not like that, I'm way more practical, and I use the intelligence I have to more practical means rather than lots of thinking.
What would you see in the Mirror of Erised? Be exact with your descriptions!
Myself as head of a university department, a Criminal Psychology professor, author of books and journal articles and an authority on my subject. I'd see myself with enough money to have classy clothes, a nice car and a beautiful flat with an employed maid to do my cleaning (hell let's throw in a whole army of servants to cater for all my needs while I'm away being brilliant and being hostess to people who adore me, this is the Mirror of Erised after all).
What makes you unique?
My ability to be close to people without getting too attached, I can always keep up my defences and I look after myself first. I'm highly self-aware, very perceptive and a mass of contradictions. I'm quite an optimist (although that's more to do with an internal locus of control, a strong belief in personal responsibility and a lot of self-confidence; I KNOW I can do whatever I set my mind to and being miserable will not do anything for me) but hugely cynical too, a loyal and dedicated friend to those who deserve that loyalty and dedication but at heart a very individualistic person (I will always put me first), and very realistic about how the world works. I don't see the world through rose-tinted glasses but I don't feel despondent about the more unsavoury aspects of life, I can take it all and make it work for me, and I think that makes me rather unique as a lot of people I've met see things in black and white, bad and good terms.
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Date: 2006-07-20 03:41 pm (UTC)He seems very easily-led, underneath it all, and I think while he loves his family (which is admirable), he's far too influenced by Lucius. Draco strikes me as a mini-Lucius sometimes; a lot of the things he says about "mudbloods" and the like, and how his battle-cry seems to be "my father will hear about this", suggests he's trying to follow in his dad's footsteps and that he ulitmately relies on Lucius. Which is why I feel sorry for him, Draco at the moment seems so bothered about being like his father that he doesn't seem to actually have a personality of his own. It's one thing to be influenced by others and to follow to a certain extent because you have your own motives and desires, and those others can get you there. It's completely another to just follow what another person is doing out of fear, or because it's all you know, and I think Draco at the moment is very much like this. I hope he grows a pair, starts to think for himself and starts to become more perceptive and aware of who to follow and what to do *for himself* rather than just following Lucius, or anyone else. He has the potential to do so (the Vanishing cabinet idea was rather inspired, if he thought of that all by himself then he's a clever little fella, that brain could definitely come in useful), and I'd love to see him do that.
I'm sure I'm missing out a lot here, but yes, ultimately I see Draco as being a bit too impressionable and a bit too easily lead, but with a lot of potential and power to be very good at "playing the game" if he tries. He has a very good teacher in Lucius, but like all teachers Lucius needs to know not to mould his son blindly in his own image, because power doesn't come from imitating others, which is what I think Draco does. I'm all for personal responsibility and being perceptive and aware of yourself and others, and I can't see people who imitate others blindly as being able to develop those skills, which is sad because Draco no doubt could.