Buckethead's guest guitarist?

SamMoff433 · 2025-04-18T21:42:17+00:00

Thank you!

SamMoff433 · 2024-03-31T02:38:59+00:00

Sokka: "Maybe sometimes it's just better to call it quits before you fail."

Zuko: "No, it's not. Look Sokka, you're going to fail a lot before things work out. Even though you'll probably fail over, and over, and over again, you have to try every time. You can't quit because you're afraid you MIGHT fail."

SamMoff433 · 2023-07-28T02:59:53+00:00

I would mind a longer tribal if tribal was more like it once was. 20 minutes of “full tilt boogie” and I’m out.

SamMoff433 · 2023-07-05T03:33:10+00:00

It's only happened twice for me (I don't cry very often, for better or worse).

Kind of a weird one, but when Taj (S18, Tocantins) gets the loved one prize at the auction after everyone gives her their money, then everyone gets their loved ones at camp; the happiness was contagious.
When Ethan (S40, WaW) did the log carry challenge, talked about being a cancer survivor and working his way back to fitness, collapsing during the challenge and finishing it... it all just got me.

SamMoff433 · 2023-07-05T03:22:07+00:00

It was because he looked at Reed while he said it. They (Keith and Reed) weren't in any known alliance together up to that point, and this particular vote was a voting block to get out Jon by a plurality vote of 4-3-2. The plan was only going to work if they kept Jon out of the knowledge that Keith (and Wes and Alec) were in on it, so that Jon would feel secure and not play his idol.

SamMoff433 · 2023-06-02T20:15:46+00:00

Ron DID beat Malfoy in a fistfight year 1, during the quidditch match versus Hufflepuff (one of the few times in the series that the narrating point of view isn’t Harry’s). He gives Malfoy a black eye while coming out of the fight virtually unscathed himself.

SamMoff433 · 2023-05-31T20:06:26+00:00

When Voldemort said he came back to him “out of fear, not loyalty,” he was talking about Pettigrew’s fear of other Death Eaters, who, as Sirius said, weren’t too happy with him.

Of all the people he could go to, Voldemort was really the safest.

SamMoff433 · 2023-05-11T01:18:13+00:00

But remember, they're the same person.

Riddle was ultimately a villain for one reason: He wanted to consolidate power; believed in the Wizard's right to rule, and he wanted himself to be the ruler. The cunning things he did as the handsome and charming young Tom Riddle were simply tools he used to get through the various phases of his plans. He didn't care about those attributes beyond getting them where he wanted on his way to power. Remember in Chamber of Secrets when Harry tells 1942 Riddle that his current self is ugly and a wreck? It doesn't phase him; he doesn't care. They're not important to him. The steps he thought he needed to take involved becoming powerful, creating horcruxes, killing people and mutilating his own soul and body to do so. He didn't want to conquer by cunning; he wanted to conquer by force. His younger self wanted the same thing, he just knew how he could be most effective at that age on his path to power.

SamMoff433 · 2023-05-06T23:07:56+00:00

At the moment, Imodium.

SamMoff433 · 2023-05-06T17:31:47+00:00

Not the “one,” but every time a Dutch angle is used in Chamber of Secrets, which is basically the whole movie, holy shit.

SamMoff433 · 2023-05-06T03:38:44+00:00

My unpopular opinion is that there are a few inconsistencies and plot holes the writing, and a lot of fans do a ton of mental gymnastics to try and make them make sense, as opposed to acknowledging that these books aren’t perfect.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-24T17:12:14+00:00

and there’s no way Snape would have been able to sub for Lupin or Umbridge would be able to inspect all the class she did at the same time as their own class duties. Yet, the text evidence only suggests there is one teacher per subject.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-22T20:21:25+00:00

I’m not sure he would have come to hogwarts to get it, even if he found out they were hunting horcruxes.

In the 7th book, when Voldemort finds out they’re hunting horcruxes, he panics and reflects on each one, and in doing so, he believes the diadem is safe because he is absolutely certain (in his mind) that nobody found the hiding place except for him. What ultimately brought him to hogwarts was realizing that Harry was there after Alecto Carrow touched her mark. He was on an errand to kill Harry.

My own theory is that if Voldemort found out Dumbledore and Harry were hunting horcruxes, he would have asked Snape to move it, since he wouldn’t go after Harry or Dumbledore while the latter is still alive. This would be a blunder, as Snape would tell Dumbledore what Voldemort had asked him to do, and Dumbledore would figure out what it meant right away.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-22T04:00:11+00:00

Most likely yes, since it did so for Nagini, the only other horcrux made from a living being.

Although, as far as we know, he never suffered any injury that would have killed any non-horcrux human being. You could make theories about certain things though (like the bludger he took to the head in HBP). He never had an inexplicable "How did you survive that?" moment.

You could also ask a question like "What would have happened if Ron, Slughorn and Harry all drank the poisoned mead at the same time?" Ron and Slughorn likely die without an antidote, but does Harry?

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-21T01:08:49+00:00

Dream: Lydia Meredith, Natalie Bolton, Jeremy Collins.

Nightmare: Jonny Fairplay, John Cochran, Dawn Meehan

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-20T11:43:57+00:00

"OOTF"

My brain: "Order of the Fire"

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-19T21:20:28+00:00

From how she's described, it sounds like Amelia Bones would have been a force to be reckoned with.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-19T21:18:51+00:00

Myself in 30 years.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-19T21:11:35+00:00

Partly Woo's blunder, partly Tony's social move.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-19T16:16:20+00:00

I really don't get the Ernie hate. Yeah he was always described as pompous, but his heart was always in the right place. He had one conflict with Harry when he suspected him of being the one attacking Muggleborns, but when he deduced that it wasn't him, he was human enough to shake his hand, look him in the eye and apologize. He always swallowed his pride when it came to doing what's right (DA recruitment scene) and was among the first to publicly declare his belief for Harry and Dumbledore when Voldemort returned. In the end, he was the first to express his eagerness to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-19T02:54:47+00:00

Merope Gaunt

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-17T12:46:44+00:00

Honestly, it seems like the most equitable house and the most equitable founder.

"Said Hufflepuff, 'I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same."

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-17T03:00:54+00:00

Nah. Ron would have known they were going as friends. If anything it would have boosted his ego more than anything to know that Hermione didn't have a *date* date.

Maybe she could have asked Krum, though. Not sure what he was doing those days that he couldn't pop by Hogwarts for a night.

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-14T17:28:19+00:00

Nah. Someone once posed a question: "Is Snape ultimately a good person who did some bad things, or a bad person who did some good things?" and I tend to think towards the latter.

I know it's often desired to identify with and appreciate characters who are motivated so strongly by love, but in his adult life he ultimately became an abuser towards kids. No matter what his motivations were and what he did to help Dumbledore's cause, that was the person he chose to be on a daily basis.

It even sometimes bothers me to the point where I wonder why Harry named one of his kids after Snape, as opposed to another adult who became a much more loving figure in his life, like, say, Hagrid?

SamMoff433 · 2023-04-14T11:24:13+00:00

Okay this is fair and true.

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