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So, in a fit of crazy jacked-up nostalgia or what have you, phuck has decided to RE-OPEN hogwarts_elite.

If you are a former member, you probably know about this already. If you are not a member but want to submit yourself to being judged by a bunch of goofy people who think they're wizards, you should go over to sorting_elite and join up.

Yeah! Do that thing! OTHERWISE NEVILLE IS GOING TO SKEWER YOU LIKE A HORCRUX.

So, in a fit of crazy jacked-up nostalgia or what have you, phuck has decided to RE-OPEN hogwarts_elite.

If you are a former member, you probably know about this already. If you are not a member but want to submit yourself to being judged by a bunch of goofy people who think they're wizards, you should go over to sorting_elite and join up.

Yeah! Do that thing! OTHERWISE NEVILLE IS GOING TO SKEWER YOU LIKE A HORCRUX.

So, like half of my friendslist has said, hogwarts_elite is ending. This is going to be its last term. (Then, it will be returning in a ten o'clock slot amid much hoopla and/or will return to play on the Jets, and then on the Vikings.)

hogwarts_elite might be a Harry Potter community, but it is more than a Harry Potter community to those of us who are/have been members. I joined in 2005, during a particularly miserable point in my life, and the people I met then were supportive, intelligent, and wonderful, and continue to be so. I have made so many amazing friends and gotten to meet people from around the country and the world. People like cacophonesque, who is my go-to gal for New York shenanigans, and spiralstairs, who is my go-to gal for anything involving cartoons or drawing. rotae, who still does not have a nose even after spending a week with me last summer. rainy_day, who was my first H_E friend and who is amazing in all kinds of ways. phuck, who is one of the best community moderators I've ever met. pikacharma, cheshire23,opaleyes, arielchan, eschatologies, kikithepirate, mel06, callmecaito, sunnyrea,skirmish_of_wit, novangia, hermintage.

I am going to forget someone so I am going to stop now because I can think of lots of people I'm not naming and that makes me feel less bad about leaving people out. But all of you have enriched and somehow improved my life over the past four years.

So. If you were an H_E member and left, or if you have never joined in spite of my wheedling, this is your last chance! Come back (or just apply the first time)! People who've been squibbed are welcome to re-apply, too!

LOOK GUYS! I Photoshopped myself into a picture with another one of my sockpuppets!




Yes, comedychick is in my living room. That is because she's really me. Also, she knows exactly what the Gryffindor Common Room looks like, so beware! She knows all your deepest, darkest secrets.

PS THIS WILL NEVER GET OLD.

LOOK GUYS! I Photoshopped myself into a picture with another one of my sockpuppets!




Yes, comedychick is in my living room. That is because she's really me. Also, she knows exactly what the Gryffindor Common Room looks like, so beware! She knows all your deepest, darkest secrets.

PS THIS WILL NEVER GET OLD.

So, guys, for those of you who are not in hogwarts_elite, I usually make posts about H_E on filters, but today I'm not because I want this to be public. I have a confession to make. In light of recent wank involving sockpuppets, I need to inform you that I have a sockpuppet in each house.

Yes. Me. A prefect.

Not only have I managed to maintain a sockpuppet in every house, but all of my sockpuppets have managed to hold important community positions at one time or another. I've entered contests as all of them, and I've faked long IM conversations between them all that I've copy-pasted to some of you for "proof" of our existence. I've even run multiple chat agents so that I could be in the same chat room at once on all four different names. I've beta-tested my own contest entries. I've hit on myself in community-wide memes. Heck, I've ever entered Yule Ball contests with myself.

To top it all off, I've even undergone lengthy cosmetic procedures photoshopped elaborate images to make you all think that I am actually four people, when in fact, I am one.

HERE IS THE PROOF, H_E. HERE IT IS:





Yes, that's right. cacophonesque, liret, pikacharma, and your humble narrator, zia_narratora are all actually one person. Which explains why we are all so awesome.

hogwarts_elite, every time there is wank, I talk to so many of you, and it just ends up reminding me, in the end, of how cool most of you are-- how lucky I am to know you guys-- all ten of you pretending to be four hundred different people, that is-- and how super our community is. I have met some of my best real life and internet friends through H_E, and that is awesome and amazing. Don't stop the love, kids.

I finished another art piece from the hella long suggestions list.

cacophonesque suggested I draw Neville dancing with the Giant Squid.



Now your lives are all complete!

In other news, though, somewhat related, we are beginning a new term at hogwarts_elite. If you are interested in joining and participating in our awesome activities, head over to sorting_elite and fill out an application!

Also, happy birthday to kikithepirate! What lucky people we are to have you alive for another year. Good luck on the job! I hope you get it!

I finished another art piece from the hella long suggestions list.

cacophonesque suggested I draw Neville dancing with the Giant Squid.



Now your lives are all complete!

In other news, though, somewhat related, we are beginning a new term at hogwarts_elite. If you are interested in joining and participating in our awesome activities, head over to sorting_elite and fill out an application!

Also, happy birthday to kikithepirate! What lucky people we are to have you alive for another year. Good luck on the job! I hope you get it!

We have engaged the Sith Lords to protect opaleyes' Pullip collection while they are in Auror Department custody.





We intend to use Veritaserum on each and every one of them to discover the true nature of your associate's involvement with Lord Voldemort and his idiotic minions. We will smoke you out, come hell or high water, and all those of you who share in this villainy will taste justice. You have my word.

The Pullips, on the other hand, will be protected and either returned to their owner, should her innocence be proven, or we will transfer their guardianship to opaleyes closest known non-Death Eater relation. They will not be harmed, mistreated, or dressed as characters from 80s movies without their consent.

(note to non-H_E friends: nothing to see here, move along)

My apartment has air conditioning and cable, but is far, far, far from unpacked. I think the unpacking will happen this week, I have just had a jam-packed weekend.

It's been Hogsmeade over at hogwarts_elite, and I have entered about six contests. I am going to try to enter a seventh one tonight, and then that will be all the contests I wanted to enter. For those of you who aren't in HE, Hogsmeade is a weekend-long fic-and-art-and-other-random-fandom-shit contest festival. It is super super fun. I'm hosting a contest, as well, where you have to write a book report on a non-Harry-Potter book from the POV of a Harry Potter character. Fun times.

Yesterday, I went to Queens with cacophonesque and liret, to go to a book sale. Destiny's friends are moving out of the country and were selling off a lot of books. We also met penguinjunky and iheartpotatoes there. I went not really intending to buy anything? Especially since my shelves are full? I ended up with THREE of the Cerebus collections, the first five Oz books, the first Oz book annotated, the new Diana Wynne Jones book that I haven't read yet, a single volume collection of Prydain, and Grave of the Fireflies on DVD, for $16. iheartpotatoes was feeling unwell, so we left her after the sale and went out for sushi.

Then, Jess and I met up with Laurie, an old high school friend I haven't seen in, gosh, probably almost ten years? She's a dancer and actress who actually plays MONSTERS in Sesame Street Live-- is that not awesome? She's also been in My Little Pony Live, as well. Anyway, she just called me out of the blue on Friday and asked us if we wanted to go out-- Oh, man, I love Facebook. So we went to dinner and then went to see [Title of Show]. And then something amazing happened.

Laurie went to get our tickets from the Will Call booth, and in doing so, discovered that the internet sale site had accidentally-- through human or computer error-- given us MATINEE instead of evening tickets. Laurie is looking horribly apologetic, and the lady behind the window says, "let me see what I can do."

She comped us three tickets to that night's performance--

Three tickets in the SECOND ROW, CENTER STAGE.

Which was an amazing way to see the show. It's very small and intimate, and all the actors are eye-contact people, so while there are shows I wouldn't mind seeing from further back, and some that are BETTER from further back, this was absolutely incredibly. It was a great show, very nerdy and theater-geek referential, and it made me want to get back into seeing shows.

Now Destiny and Jess and I are heading out for the day again-- to see a METS GAME. My dad got three tickets, because it's the last season at Shea? And he GAVE THEM TO ME. SCORE. All I have to do is give him the stubs to save.

Life is good. Time to leave!