Share Your World – With A Twist 8-10-2020

Thanks to Melanie for hosting the Share your World and for adding a new dimension!
Hi Roger!!

I’m afraid I am not a Potterite. I haven’t read a single page, let alone a book, and fell asleep when the film was on TV. However, fun is the name of the game, so I’m going to have a go!

This week the book OR the movie is “Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone”

Share Your World Meets Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

1. Because of the state-wide quarantines many of the local SPCA’s are having an influx of animals. You have decided that you would love to have a new pet. Would you go the normal wizardry route and pick an owl, a cat, or a toad? Or would you become a more eccentric wizard (like Hagrid, the games keeper) and seek out a three-headed dog, a dragon, or a unicorn? Please explain your answer.
   I’d have a unicorn because I think they are magical.
   
   
2. Neville Longbottom was gifted a Remembrall. This was a glass ball that would assist you in maintaining memories of things that you often forget. What would you want your Remembrall to help you remember?
   What’s on the shopping list I’ve left in the kitchen.
   
3. Professor Dumbledore gave Harry Potter an invisibility cloak that Dumbledore said was from Harry’s father. Now, you have inherited a cloak with similar powers. Would you use it? When?
   I might use it once just to test that it worked. 
4. While cleaning your attic, you have discovered the Mirror of Erised. (“Erised” is “desire” spelled backwards, as if reflected in a mirror) The Mirror of Erised is a magical mirror, which, according to Professor Dumbledore, when you gaze into it, it shows the “deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.” You have chosen to look in the mirror. What do you see?
   My Mum and Dad smiling and waving at me

Please have a bit of fun with the answers.   Even if you aren’t a Potter fan, the questions are (to me anyway) fun ones which could be answered ‘outside of Harry Potter’s world’.   Imagination might be required though.   

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Now for the ‘traditionalists’ who like “just the questions m’am (or sir)”.   Here’s three random “Plain” Questions:

Would You Rather Live 120 Years That Are Comfortable But Boring, Or Live Half As Long, But Have An Exciting Adventure Packed Life?
My blood pressure won’t let me do excitement, but I don’t think I’d like to live to 120.  Late 80s would be OK I guess.

What’s Something That Overwhelms You?
In a bad way, bloody tourists. In a good way, assistant companion pets

What Do or DID You Take For Granted?
Pre Covid, being able to go out for a drive as and when we felt like it, for no apparent reason.

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Gratitude:   Please feel free to share some gratitude moments or thoughts you’ve had recently.  This section is entirely optional.

This is our beach in May with no visitors…………. just the way we like it.