Who would you be and why?

Centy posed an interesting question today for those of us just dying for some homework! ;) What a bunch of overachievers we are!! She asked us which HP character we'd be and why. I like to think that I'd make a good Tonks. She questions authority, has a wicked sense of humor and sees beauty in the unusual. Remus was one of my book crushes and so we share that too! I love her bravery and that she doesn't ever bow to convention be it fashion or her core values. I strive to be true to myself without compromise in my personal life and it causes me a bit of uncomfortableness at times. I wish everyone could be as accepting as Tonks and I hope that people see me as accepting of them in all their unusual beauty. And I actually LIKE the name Nymphadora! ;)

Homework II : Electric Boogaloo

Whew! OK I misread the directions and thought we could only use 4 letter words, not 4 or MORE. So too bad for me but here are the 4 letter ones I found and their attendant Potter meanings! :)

Muggle Studies - 4 letter words

• mule - an obstinant burrow see also Ron Weasley
  
• stud - Cedric Diggory
  
• glug - what we do with butterbeer
  
• mess - what the whomping willow made out of the Weasley's car
  
• glue - what you use to keep your copy of Tales of Beadle the Bard together
  
• less - Draco's company is something we want LESS of
  
• mugs - what we drink butterbeer out of
  
• smug - Draco Malfoy's usual expression
  
• dies - Our hope is that Lord Voldermort does
  
• digs - What one does when one wants to bury a baby mandrake
  
• diet - Something Crabbe could certainly benefit from
  
• duel - a contest of speed and endurance of the wand or knit variety
  
• legs - what we use to run from dementors
  
• ties - what we must wear with our uniforms at all times on campus
  
• deem - a word Professor McGonagal uses in many sentences eg: "Your punishment is whatever I deem necessary Mr. Potter."
  
• diss - what we commonly do to Slytherins ;)
  
• dime - a common form of American muggle currency
  
• dues - what we pay every semester for upkeep of our House
  
• duet - a song sung together with someone else
  
• dust - everything in the room with the mirror of Erised was covered with this
  
• duit - another form of muggle currency, Dutch
  
• edge - what the death of Albus Dumbledore pushes Harry over
  
• edit - what Hermione does to Ron's papers to make them look halfway decent
  
• eels - creatures that live in lakes and rivers and look a lot like Nagini
  
• eggs - what dragons hatch from, see also Hagrid, Charlie Weasley
  
• egis - armor plate that protects the chest like the ones on the suits of armor at Hogwarts
  
• Eide - A village in the muggle country of Norway, sometimes thought to be near the unplottable Durmstrang Institute
  
• elms - a wood said to be the abode of faeries, resistant to splitting and used in wands. Lucius Malfoy's wand is made of elm
  
• else - other, different
  
• emit - to throw or give off or out, when Harry opens the dragon egg it emits a screeching noise
  
• emus - the largest bird native to Australia
  
• geld - what Hagrid has to do to the Gryffin's so they don't reproduce
  
• gels - a colourful filter cover over a light, gelatin
  
• gelt - gold covered coin shaped chocolate similar to Shock-o-Choc from Honeydukes
  
• gems - jewels, sometimes set in jewelry
  
• gest - A notable adventure or exploit, A verse romance or tale. eg: Harry Potter's adventures
  
• gets - Hermione really "gets" Ron
  
• gigs - The Weird Sisters get great gigs like the Yule Ball
  
• gild - To cover in gold, the very apt beginning of Gilderoy Lockhart's name
  
• gilt - Gold coloured, Gilderoy Lockhart's hair was like a gilt picture frame!
  
• gist - the idea of, It takes Ron a little while get the gist of what Hermione tells him.
  
• gits - Crabbe & Goyle are little gits.
  
• glee - what Hermione has when punching Draco in the nose
  
• glum - how Ron feels when Lavender will not stop hanging all over him
  
• glut - an abundance, Fred & George have a glut of extendable ears when they start Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
  
• gums - what your teeth are in!
  
• gust - a strong wind, though you might feel a gust if the Whomping Willow swung a branch by you
  
• guts - what the Dumbledore Army has in abundance
  
• ides - the 15th of the month, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will open on the ides of December
  
• idle - what Gryffindor's never are
  
• isle - a small island, the Isle of Drear is a small island located off the northern most tip of Scotland. The Isle is the home of the Quintaped,and has been made Unplottable for this reason.
  
• item - an object, the horcruxes that Harry looks for are magical items.
  
• lees - residual yeast from fermintation, when yeast is used in making butterbeer you can see lees in the container after straining
  
• leis - beautiful flower necklaces usually made from orchids, sometimes seen on Veelas
  
• lest - for fear that, Harry left school after his 6th year lest Voldermort take over the magical world.
  
• lets - contraction for let us, Let's head into Hogsmeade this weekend.
  
• lids - coverings for jars
  
• lied - told a lie, Harry's Aunt and Uncle lied to Harry about his parents death.
  
• lies - untruths, Rita Skeeter writes various lies about Harry for the Daily Prophet.
  
• lieu - instead of, Ron depends on Hermione to help him with his studies in lieu of actually doing the work himself.
  
• lime - a green tart fruit, Cornielius Fudge has a habit of wearing a lime green bowler hat.
  
• list - a collection of items, Dumbledore's Army members all signed up on a list.
  
• lite - lighter, when you want a less calorie drink, drink Butterbeer-lite!
  
• luge - a luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first, a common sport at Drumstrang Institute.
  
• lugs - a four sided sail as on the Durmstrang ships
  
• lust - what Lavender has for Ron
  
• lute - a stringed instrument, the Weird Sisters have a lute player in their band
  
• meet - what the 3 wizarding schools did at the tri-wizard tournament
  
• meld - what Harry's mind does with the memories in the pensieve
  
• melt - what Harry does when Ginny Weasley is around or what Ron does when any Veela is anywhere near!
  
• mete - to give out, Harry metes out some mighty punishment on Lord Voldermort
  
• mild - what everyone thinks Neville Longbottom is and oh how wrong they are
  
• mile - a sneakoscope is a type of Dark Detector and can detect dark magic up to a mile away
  
• miss - what we do to each other when our swaps are over!
  
• mist - what hangs around in the Forbidden Forest making it super creepy
  
• mite - a tiny thing, Colin Creevy was a mite of a guy.
  
• muse - what Hermione is to Ron.
  
• muss - what Harry's hair normally looks like.
  
• must - fermentation residue from wine making, I'm sure Fleur Delcore's family is familiar with must and all aspects of wine making.
  
• mute - silent, something Molly Weasely never is, unless something horrible has happened
  
• seed - the germ of a plant, something we see a lot of in Professor Sprout's Herbology classes.
  
• seem - to be like, Draco likes to 'seem' like a good student when really he's a horrible git.
  
• sees - to see, It takes another guy (Viktor Krom) to make Ron see how much Hermione means to him.
  
• semi - half, Hagrid is a semi-giant.
  
• sets - series of things on a common theme, Dumbledore's Army is a great set of wizards.
  
• side - a place, space, or direction with respect to a center or to a line of division (as of an aisle, river, or street), you need to PICK A SIDE and we pick Dumbledore's.
  
• slit - a narrow opening, A loophole is a slit in a castle wall for light, air,or shooting through and Howart's has many of them.
  
• site - place, The site of the Battle of Hogwarts was within the castle and on the grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
  
• sits - to sit,Neville spends his first year at Hogwarts sitting down rather a lot.
  
• sled - a seat with runners to slide on snow, another popular Durmstrang sport.
  
• slid - to slide, as in the Durmstrang luge.
  
• slim - Fleur Delacour is described as slim in all her descriptions.
  
• silt - the dirt on the bottom of lakes and rivers, Harry encounters a lot of silt in the tri-wizard challenge underwater with the mer-people.
  
• slug - a snail without a shell, The Slug Club is a club started by Horace Slughorn.
  
• slut - something I'm quite sure none of us are. ;)
  
• smit - to be smitten! For a while Harry is in deep smit with Cho Chang.
  
• smut - trashy writing, Rita Skeever is a muck raker and a smut writer.
  
• stem - the thing that the flower sits on, or great legs!
  
• suds - soap bubbles, If you use the scouring charm you get great suds!
  
• sued - to be involved in a lawsuit
  
• sues - to involve someone in a lawsuit
  
• suet - raw beef or mutton fat used to feed birds, if you need some you can usually find it in the owlry.
  
• suit - a set of clothes, a suit of armor is handy for fighting dragons
  
• sums - what you need to do your arithmancy homework!
  
• teem - to swarm, sometimes the owlry at Hogwarts is simply teeming with owls
  
• tide - the rising of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans
  
• tied - to tie up, the Death eaters tie Harry to a tombstone in Goblet of Fire
  
• tile - small ceramic piece used for decoration, the bathroom the Moaning Myrtle lives in has many tiles
  
• time - what Hermione turns
  
• tugs - pulls on, Colin Creevy is always pulling on someone's robe so he can get a better picture.
  
• tule - a hardstem bulrush found on the shores of Hogwarts lake
  
• used - to use up, once you have drunk your polyjuice potion it is all used up!
  
• uses - to use, Harry uses his wand on many a different spell.
  

Nervous about starting school....

Only a few more days until we are sorted into houses. I'm really hoping for Gryffindor. I can't wait!