Me, my life, and my linguistic skills (which I'm sure you're very interested in):

I'm a 21-year-old Danish girl with a propably unhealthy love for books in general and Harry Potter in particular.

I'm in fourth semester at university. It's mad, very hard and I feel so stupid, but I love it very much.

If you don't feel like writing English messages today, you can write me in any other language you'd like. I probably won't understand it, but I promise I'll find it interesting.

My writing. Status:

I have an old half-finished thing lying in a drawer, and I intend to take it up and brush the dust off it at some point. No idea when that'll be, though. I'm also writing on something new, and I'm fairly confident that it'll be something at some point, but exactly what and exactly when... well, your guess is as good as mine.

The Story That Might Be:

"And then I surprised myself: I was pretty sure I was never going to make it past one-shots and translations, and now I've suddenly started a rather big story." Quote from my profile January 2007, and my point is this: ...and then I stopped surprising myself and went back to being sure that I'm just the sort of person that can't finish big projects. I never made it past first chapter, but I decided it would make an okay one-shot, so there you go.

"The List":

I read other people's stories a lot, and though stories might make it to my favourite list for many different reasons, I don't have any qualms about recommending all of them.

Generally, I don't really get slash-stories. I can't see why people seem to find them so interesting. Personally, they make me feel left out. But okay, no rule without exception, and I think there might be a slash-fic or two that have managed to worm their way onto the list.

I also don't like Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape particularly much (though I'll admit that there are exceptions to this rule too), and any romance involving either usually makes me a tad sick.

I like stories about persons and couples that we only get glimpses of in canon, which is why there are a lot of Lily/James and Tonks/Remus stories on the afore-mentioned list. Recently, I've been crushing quite a bit on Harry and so a lot of Harry/Ginny stories have joined the party.

4 reasons why I like flamers (meaning that you can flame me, not that I flame anybody):

1) I want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I know from experience how boring and time-consuming it is to make critisism polite. So, don't bother to be polite, just spit it out!

2) I can take it. My self-esteem is very healthy, and I find flames amusing.

3) Wouldn't it be nice? To get all your pent-up frustrations out of your system? Come on, we can all use it sometimes. Here, I give you the chance. Take it!

4) Everybody hates them. I take pride in being odd, and thus I like them.

The competition for the evilist flamer is officially opened!

So far, randomfan is in the lead with a very critic review. It was way too constructive to be considered a real flame, but I got what I wanted, so I'll say it counts. Unfortunately, this was an anonymous review, so I'll answer it a bit here. Not because I think it'll interest anybody but because I feel the need to answer.

You ask me were I got the idea that most people think environment means more to a persons personality than inheritance. Okay, I'll admit that I don't have statistic proof for this one. The correct wording would be: Most people I know think so. It's also the impression I get from TV, radio and other media. I also think so myself, which is why I wanted to find an explanation to why Harry is so relatively normal.

As for the other things, I sort of think they're a question of taste and as most people seem to like it (and more importantly, because I like it myself), I'm not going to change it. I will, however keep it in mind for future projects, and I'll end with saying that I'm very grateful for this review.

A quote:

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" Dumbledore, Deathly Hallows, page 579, British edition.

April 2009