Potter, potter, potter...

I recently tried out a dozen or so of the Hogwards Sorting tests over at www.quizilla.com and came out as Ravenclaw most of the time (no surprise), though I got a Griffendor and a Hufflepuff once. Must be my sense of fair play or something. Mind you, the only house that I would never ever fit into would be Slytherin, because I'm not at all ambitious. At least they've cleared up why the Houses are divided like that, because I wouldn't have thought that ambition was a sensible virtue to sort for, but the explanation given makes sense.

Unlike the magic in the Potterverse. Well, there's no... system to it at all. Or very little. Why is it that making a Patronus is very advanced magic, yet reading a person's intent can be done with a cheap sneakoscope? Not to mention that the Sorting Hat has the ability to read minds, an incredibly powerful thing, but it's only ever used for something as trivial as putting people into Houses.

I did not resist. I did read Mistral's recommendation on GenFicCrit, "Harry Potter and the Polka Dot Plague", and I did enjoy it, especially the characterisation of Snape. Must do a review of it ASAP. I don't really intend to read any other HP fic, unless maybe Rebecca Anderson's, since I know she writes so well. But it's quite wierd to read any fanfic set in a universe which is still unfolding, because it's like taking a snapshot of the past and then moving one step sideways. And book fic makes me uneasy anyway.

A curious Meme

Taken from Rebecca's LJ.

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