I have a question.

Why do the wizards in Harry Potter live like they do?

If I were a member of a group of wizards back when there isn't much of a magical community and our kind was being persecuted, I wouldn't go back to live next to the people who 1. I didn't trust and 2. I would have to hide out from. The wizards in Harry Potter can expand space! They can hide things, even big things, completely from muggles. So why not collect the entire wizarding population and put it on an island or island chain somewhere in the ocean? There'd certainly be no need to limit the population growth, as long as you can expand space and build upwards. Okay, there might be a limit to how much they can expand space... but how high could that limit be? If they had several people working at it? Why would Hogsmeade have to be the largest wizard community in Britain? Why not collect all the wizards in one place from the beginning?

No sense, none at all.

Better question: Why don't the wizard supremacists/separatists separate more? Given how long the two worlds have been separate, you'd expect far more divergence in their language (even with a steady influx of muggle students, who after all could've been taken from their parents at birth, and the birth parents could've had their memories modified - memories are modified all the time), and their devices. Why toilets that flush into the lake (eww!)? Why not some sort of teleportation field - maybe an always-open floo - that opens into a volcano? Why sinks? Why not a magical "all purpose cleaner" for your hands? Why do they have to lug ink and pens around? Couldn't they find a way to, say, dictate their papers? Well, that one's a bit far-fetched.

*yawns*

It may be just because I'm so tired, but this game is freaking me out. *shudders*
Night all! Djusk' a!

*blinkblinkblink*

It's like they're being written today!

Bil Waterson must be psychic. That's the only reasonable explanation.

A childhood personal essay

It's not a very GOOD childhood personal essay, but it's all true. Except the part about the nightmares. I don't have them anymore :)

( Essay Time! )

I, Connie Baker, do solemnly swear this is my own work. After what I just said about cheating, I'd be offended if you accused me of it. Besides, I can't imagine what sort of person would want to copy that dreck, it's really NOT very good. Mostly because I forgot about it and just now typed it up. Um. I didn't say that.

Hi Professor I-think-your-name-is-Crawford!

!!!

Much, much too cute.

I need to try that later.

And now... off to *censored*. I'll tell you about it later if it works out. Nothing very interesting, but I want it to be a surprise.

*screams*

Got this off of mock_the_stupid.

I love how they bother to tell us that the writing was Farsi. Does it matter? This is NOT a good reason to stop a flight! If a death threat had been written in French, nobody would care, but write something innocuous in "that weird squiggle writing" and you stop an entire damn flight. Hope the people responsible lose their jobs over this. I'd feel a lot safer flying if they did.

Edit: And out come the trolls. Yay!

Oddly, everything I said in response was true. Except maybe the bit about Steven. He *said* he (and his whatever-you-call it, group of people he was training with) was sent straight down to help with rescue efforts, but I have no way of knowing if this is true or not. *shrugs*

Taken from metaquotes

Stupid, and wasteful. There's people starving in this country, and they throw away thousands of dollars worth of perfectly good, un-pooped on food.

That's what's really disgusting.