Mellonin's posts

@Dipper: Really? In Maine - where I live - we have tons of Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw stuff, but very little Hufflepuff stuff, so that's surprising that you found very little Ravenclaw.

The Kingkiller Chronicles. There are several books so far, fantasy genre, and they are AMAZING.

"My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as "quothe." Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to. The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it's spoken, can mean The Flame, The Thunder, or The Broken Tree.

"The Flame" is obvious if you've ever seen me. I have red hair, bright. If I had been born a couple of hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon. I keep it short but it's unruly. When left to its own devices, it sticks up and makes me look as if I have been set afire.

"The Thunder" I attribute to a strong baritone and a great deal of stage training at an early age.

I've never thought of "The Broken Tree" as very significant. Although in retrospect, I suppose it could be considered at least partially prophetic.

My first mentor called me E'lir because I was clever and I knew it. My first real lover called me Dulator because she liked the sound of it. I have been called Shadicar, Lightfinger, and Six-String. I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.

But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant "to know."

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me. "

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Yes, well, they're MUGGLES. What did you expect?

@KeirenKiren: There has been a lot of Slytherin stuff at Hot Topic lately, which is where I go. There, and the Books - A - Million book store, for the non-clothing stuff. Books, journals, wands, figurines, banners, etc. can be found at the book store.

@KeirenKiren: Unfortunately, when I went to the Harry Potter store at Disney World, I got the Gryffindor night shirt. It's awesome, don't get me wrong, but at the time they didn't carry any night clothes for the other Houses, so all I could get was Gryffindor stuff :(

I am currently writing a Harry Potter fanfiction, and I was hoping I could get some feedback on it. I have already written quite a bit, but am only posting the first chapter for now, to see what people think of it.

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The Wizarding World was a place of secrets - from the very beginning it had been so. Held apart from the rest of the world, their existence was kept a secret from those who would harm them; those who, though they held no magic of their own, were so many in number as to overwhelm the few wizards and witches who hid from them.

There was another knowledge beneath that, however; the knowledge that they could, with time and a concentration of their abilities, wipe this danger from the face of the planet. They held the power, if they were but willing to use it; the power to kill, to utterly destroy that which frightened them so. It was this knowledge that many feared more than death itself - that they held within themselves this ability to destroy.

So they kept it a secret, even from themselves. Those who understood just how far their magic could go toward the destruction of all which was beautiful guarded this knowledge, lest those whose moral scruples were few in number become aware.

Laws were passed, banning the use of certain spells, and then later entire groups of spells. Entire branches of knowledge were banned throughout the whole of the wizarding world - a practice which was to continue as territories were laid out in the Muggle world and countries were formed, separating wizards from one another through cultural, political, and geographical lines.

Secrets ruled the WIzarding World. Secrets kept the populace safe in their ignorance, willing to accept, as a whole, the limitations placed upon them by their government, both old and new.

So years passed in ignorance and silence, with little changing in the Wizarding World from the time of Merlin, that man that so many looked up to. A man who had been integral in creating many of the limitations which the Wizarding World now accepted. Change was slow in coming, and was fought by the general populace with a ferocity they showed for little else.

That status quo was almost sacred by the time Harry Potter was born. Lord Voldemort was hated and feared for challenging this status quo - perhaps even more so than for the deaths which had come about at his hands and the hands of his followers. To challenge a world of secrets, to bring knowledge to the forefront with little to no fear of the consequences of chasing such knowledge and power ...

That which the Wizarding World did not understand, they feared. In this respect, they were no different from the muggles which they hid themselves from. And the power which Tom Riddle - Lord Voldemort - held at his fingertips was no different. They did not understand it, but they did understand that it was forbidden to chase such secrets, such knowledge.

Secrets were funny things; you could keep them without ever wondering why. They could be kept from you, without you ever realizing there was more to the world than what you had been told. When an entire society had been taught to ignore a part of their own existence - when they had been systematically taught to keep those same secrets from their own children ... well, those were the sorts of secrets that could prove truly deadly.

@KeirenKiren: I felt kind of weird about it, but I was decked out in Slytherin stuff for st. paddy's day. I had my Sltyerhin Quidditch shirt on and everything!

@KeirenKiren: Heyas fellow Slytherin! I know, but it was my day off, so I couldn't really show my Slytherin pride in public - I tend to hide in my house on my days off, if I'm not at the local pub. Yesterday was a hiding day, haha.

@Mousy: I'm the same way, when it comes to lurking; I tend to read other peoples posts, but only randomly will I actually post myself. I usually log in once a day for my daily prize, though :)

Right now, however, I want to get myself some of those event items, so I'm posting more than I usually would, haha.

*hides in the corner with a candle* Have I ever mentioned that I am afraid of the dark?!

@Tuijp: A Hufflepuff saving a Slytherin? Will wonders never cease?

Yay! My first event since I joined the site! How is everybody doing?

*casts lumos* Did I ever mention I'm afraid of the dark? *hides in a corner*