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HP Quiz

Like the horcruxes, my HP posts keep on coming. Came across this fairly gettable quiz on Kweezzz (a Twitter based Indian quiz group). Riddikulus to all you boggarts who don't attempt this quiz!

Q1- Harry Potter, Hugo Weasley, Alfred Cattermole and Ariana Dumbledore all had_______

Q2: I was the reason for Harry Potter's 1st brush with the Ministry & I nearly got him expelled too. But I'm not as bad as I claim to be.

Q3: Groaning & clanking in the astronomy tower is my favourite pastime, or so, Sir Nick thinks. Harry once impersonated me to scare Peeves.

Q4: I once helped Harry Potter in a quest. Brave though I'm, was foolish to let in a wrong person & was promptly fired. I love fighting.

Q5 There is nothing you can hide from me. Face me and I'll know the thing which you crave for. Desire for or rim

Q6: My name anagrams to "Help the dirty PoA" but I did not help him escape from the Azkaban, at least willingly. 

Q7: I'm not a vitch. I'm not that famous quidditch player which Ron mentioned to Harry, though I have some connection with another player.

Q8: My mother thinks that I'm like my uncle. The uncle in question once helped my father escape from his uncle. Who am I?

Q9: He realised this special power when he met me. I will always be thankful to him for setting me free & letting me visit Brazil. Who am I?

Q10:The more you try to escape, the more difficult it will be. You don't need wood to ward me off, remembering that you are a witch will do!

Q10:The more you try to escape, the more difficult it will be. You don't need wood to ward me off, remembering that you are a witch will do!

Q11: Not all can see me. Those who can, do not consider it as a gift & those who can't do not wish to. Very useful to people like Hermoine

Q12: I’m not a cloth shop you might very well mistake me for. You can find me next to that gadgets shop which muggles swarm all the time.

Q13: If Cedric: Cho, Krum: Hermoinee, Harry: Parvati, Fleur:?

Q14: If Harry: Cho, Neville: Hermoinee, then Ron: ?

Q15 I helped Voldemort in his resurrection. I should have not trusted his most coward servant. Clue: I was Sirius's senior at Hogwarts

HP-7: What is missing?

My 2 cents: Even though the movie more or less followed the book, it never engaged as the book did. One reason is Daniel Radcliffe- who seems to be doing worse as an actor as every movie passes. For someone on the run and in a lot of trouble, he looks too much like a well fed squat elf. There is an almost ascetic quality to the search for the deathly hallows, and Harry looks too sleek to reap the rewards of the search.

Another reason  is the boring predictability of the movie. Since everyone has read the book, the director should have  realized the book in a way that catches the imagination- panaromic shots of mountains, seas etc is not a substitute.

But the action is good.

By now, I am sure several Singampallis have seen the movie. So what is the consensus?

Singampalli Sarcasm

Me and ma generally have a long tete-a-tete post lunch/dinner. Typically the topics will be around fun happenings of past and present of family and of course "Jagartalus" :). Today we happened to talk about how sarcastic Singampallis are, which I find very funny.

The conversation started with how mama garu used to pass sarcastic comments for some misses from ma's side. Like - he always wanted to have a glass of water next to him while having meals. And knowing ma, she would have hardly missed it. But if she will miss it, the comment from mama garu will "Kaapraniki vachina appatti nunchi chustunnaanu ..you dont put water when food is served!!". :)

It will be very easy to know that taata-gaaru is watching news on tv even if you are in other room, because he will be grinding his teeth and banging the table with his fist and grumbling over the subject. :-) Ma says that what is the point in breaking ones hand over such matters when no one is around to hear :) .

She mentioned that how all the babais were good at making funny comments and keeping interesting names for people. This one really made me laugh so hard that I got tears in my eyes :). It seems there used to be a fat lady around our house in Kavali, she was stout. She was so bulky that one couldn't even see her neck, and obviously thats how babais came up with a name "Neck-less". Poor lady wouldn't have ever come to know what they really meant :)

Gopal babai is handsome-"est" man of the family, other babais had given him names like "Andhagaadu" & "Shoku-purshu". I need not explain why those names! It seems he used to take good amount of time for his beauty baths & some times will make taata garu also to wait in the queue, obviously this wont stop him from saying "Jalakalaata..chaalu...come out!!"

I would say the baton has been passed from one generation to other successfully, but the I guess it is getting mellowed down as it goes to the next generation. Krups gets irritated at people who drive recklessly on the roads and he calls all of them as "Peanut brains" :) But it still doesn't beat tata-garu!! :)

Stem Cell Storage

Question to the doctors and parents in the family: Nowadays one hears about the advisability of stem cell  storage of one's children. Apparently this will come in useful in recovering from degenerative diseases. And apparently, the tooth is also a source of stem cells- so there are agencies offering to store the kid's teeth, when they fall as the kid grows up.

Is this just a fad or is it really advisable?