Welcome to Gaia! ::

Q: What, if you are willing to disclose, is your name?
A: Sarah.

Q: How did you discover Gaia and , eventually, our lovely guild?
A: Well I discovered gaia through some friends, I was in class and told them I was bored. They told me I should check the site out. I did and here I am. As for the guild I believe I was just browsing the guild types and found The Harry Potter Guild of Gaia. I took a look and applied; I'm pretty sure everyone else knows the rest wink

Q: How have you liked being the new Head of Gryffindor House? Do you ever worry about being so new to the guild compared to you predicessor?
A: I am really enjoying being the new Head of Gryffindor and all my friends were really supportive when I was made the new head. I don't really worry about being so new, we are two different people and brought what we have to Gryffindor house. That said I'd hope no one would compare me to the past head.

Q: What has been the best part about being a moderator? What about the worst part?
A: The best part for me would have to be that I can help the guild more then I could when I was just a member. As of right now I don't have a worst part.

Q: How do you feel about the new term? Worried? Excited?
A: Excited.

Q: What is your favorite thread within the guild?
A: I don't really know, there are a lot of threads I like, I wouldn't feel right just picking one.

Q: What has been your, so far, favorite memory of the guild?
A: When I got the PM saying I was promoted...lol. I still have that PM too. biggrin

Q: What about worst?
A: That so many of our previous members have left. I may not have known them really well, but it is still sad to lost people for whatever reason.

Q: What is your favorite book/author outside of Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling?
A: At the moment my favorite book is The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

Q: I?m assuming that you have read the sixth book, being a mod and all, what did you think?
A: Yes I have read the sixth book. I enjoyed it over all. I really liked that it showed that there were things Harry thought he understood but in all actuality he only partly understood. I didn't like that Snape killed Dumbledore; I figured it was going to happen but I still didn't want it too. Sorry if I spoiled it for anyone. sweatdrop

Q: Which is your favorite character from J.K.'s books? Which do you think you are most like?
A: May all time favorite character would have to be Sirius Black. I've never really tought about which character I'm most like. My friends who know me really well would probably say I'm a female version of Harry. confused

Q: You are walking down the street in London and you see J.K. herself! If you could ask J.K. any question about anything (like the books) what would it be?
A: If I could ask one thing I'd probably ask about nothing related to the books but about her past, like what she wore to her prom if she went. sweatdrop

Q: What do you think about being chosen as the Witch of the Month?
A: I'm honoured, I'd never think I would be picked as Witch of the Month. So thank you heart

Q: Finally, once again, is there anything else you want to tell the readers?
A: I'm glad that the Hogwarts Monthly is back up and running. Also I really am enjoying teaching and I hope my students are enjoying my class.

-----Harry and Ron were invisible in McGonagall's office. She made sure the door was shut, and then sat at her desk, opened a drawer and pulled out a pensive.
----- " Ron, do you think she will mind if we sneak a peak at her thoughts..." Harry whispered, winking at Ron as they gathered closer to the desk...

----- As soon at they were sucked into the pensive Professor Snape ran into the room of the pensive, " Where do you suspect we are?" Questioned Ron.
----- Harry looked around and immediately took notice of the spinning gears and cogs as well as the snoozing portraits.
----- "Must be Dumbledore's office..." Harry concluded. "Well, looks like we went pretty far back in time, that calendar on the wall says it's the 19 of January, 1982!" Stammered Ron as his eyes grew as big as the grandfather clocks face.
----- "Do you suspect we are in here alone? It looks pretty quiet..." said Harry.
----- " McGonagall must be here, I mean this is her memory..." Answered Ron rolling his eyes.
----- "Oh right redface " said Harry. Just then, Mcgonagall herself walked into the room.
----- "Speak of the devil", said Ron grinning. However this professor was not the that the boys had known all their years at Hogwarts. There was no trace of grey hairs in that tight bun that somehow looked more ladylike than they remembered. Her skin and face looked younger as well, although she did look quite distraught. She had a letter in her hand. Harry was about to try to see who it was from, or better yet, read it, when Dumbledore walked into the office from his study.
----- "Hello, Minerva, what seems to be the problem?" Questioned a slightly younger Dumbledore; he seemed to be in his late 50's and Minerva her late 20's.
----- "Albus it seems some student has made a large ruckus down in Muggle Studies..," she replied, rolling her eyes. Ron tried holding his breath to keep from laughing, as he saw a strange student who walked in resembling a young Sirius.
----- " Well, I guess I shouldn't be to surprised. I mean he was friends with a group of trouble makers." Answered Ron, nodding and rolling his eyes," anyway, let's get back to McGonagall."
----- Harry and Ron listened inventively as they saw McGonagall start to open the mysterious letter.
----- "Head Master, as I was on my way to the Owlery I was struck by this letter on the grand stair case, straight on the forehead." Sirius looked around, looking for a way to get away. As he did this, Dumbledore noticed him and winked.
----- "Minerva, hand that letter over to me, it seems to be addressed to young Mr. Black here."

----- Just then, the room seemed to have melted away from them and a new one began to refocus. Only Harry didn't recognize this room. The walls and furniture were obviously old and seemed to have been worn and un-noticed but recently cleaned; as if they had been there for ages and were just found and cared for.
----- Then Ron let out the smallest gasps of understanding and said, "This a room at #12Grimmauld Place. It was that room that leads out of the bedroom where Buckbeak was. You never saw it because mum went up there first to see what needed to be done to it and thought she saw an Erkling or something so she locked it up and wouldn't let us go up there. I guess they cleaned it after Christmas and found whatever it was."
----- Then they realized that McGonagall was already in there, sitting in one of the dilapidated chairs and Harry noticed a cane was near by.
----- "This can't have been too long ago; she must have just been out of St. Mungos."
----- It seemed like she was waiting for someone. Harry and Ron didn't have too long to wait around thinking of who she could be waiting for, however, because just then the door opened and in came Mad Eye Moody.
----- Moody looked around and the spotted Mcgonagoll.
----- "You wanted to speak to me?" he asked.
----- "No, but a friend of mine did." McGonagall replied and turned towards the door, letting in Snape.
----- "I have received information that Sirius Black is to be used as a decoy to bring Harry Potter to the Ministry of Magic." he said very quickly and quietly.
----- "What does this have to do with me?" Moody said in a low growl.
----- "You're distant enough from Sirius to not let your emotions get in your way. Lupin would not understand; he would want to keep Sirius safe."
----- "Alright, I still don't understand." Moody said, his normal eye staring at Snape, Magical resting on McGonagall.
----- "Well, he wont be used directly, but this is our chance to alert the rest of the wizarding world of the Dark Lord's return. So Harry may be lured. That is, if he hasn't been practicing Occlumency, which I doubt he has."
----- "What?"
----- Mcgonagall broke in, "Don't you understand Alastor? This is our chance, our chance to even the odds."
----- "But what if Voldemort hears the prophecy?"
----- "There's no important information in there. We can sacrifice it." Snape said.
----- "But what does Sirius have to do with this?"
----- "He may want to go to help Potter, of course."
----- "Alright" growled Moody
----- "Well, I also have information that Bellatrix Lestrange poses a serious threat to Potter. She also poses a threat to Sirius."
----- "So you want to use him as a decoy?" Moody growled in disbelief.
----- "Harry doesn't have a chance against Bellatrix" McGonagall broke in.
----- "And Black is an equal to her, much more likely to survive. He will understand. He would give his life for Potter any day, as would all of us, I'm sure." Snape said with a slight sneer.
----- " I'm sure I would understand," interrupted Lupin as he rushed in the door.
-----"I am glad you are here. I am sure we can use your help" Replied McGonagall sternly.
-----The story turns back to Ron and Harry as they watch something obviously confusing them.
-----"What do you suspect this means?" Asked Harry, obviously confused, "I know this is important, but I don't even know what to think of this. For one thing, I don't know when this is happening, this could be from when I first met Voldemort... or, they could be saying that I will meet him again..."
----- "Well, it sounds to me that this has to be just before we all went to the Department of Mysteries." Ron said, although more to himself than to Harry, "they're talking as if Sirius hasn't died yet. But I don't get it; did they know that Sirius was going to die? Or did they just know that Voldemort was going to trick us into going down there?"
----- "Shh" Harry said, as Lupin began to talk again.
----- "Thank you, Minerva. Anyways, I know Sirius would be willing to protect Harry, as would we all, but I don't see why you aren't talking to him about this."
----- Snape, who didn't look happy that Lupin had entered this conversation, checked what looked like a watch from inside a pocket in his robes as McGonagall said...

----- The walls faded away once again and the reappearing ones were worn wood, covered with pictures of old and famous wizards like Nicolas Flamel.
----- "Whoa, where are we now?" Asked Harry.
----- "This place looks familiar like I see it everyday but something about it is different..." Answered Ron puzzled.
----- It seemed to be a den. There must have been a kitchen near by because they heard someone washing dishes in the next room.
----- Suddenly, a little girl (who looked remarkably like Ginny) came down a set of stairs to their left. She was wearing an old jumper that seemed to be fashioned to the styles of the 50's.
----- She looked annoyed and cried, "MUM!? They put Doxy droppings in my jumper again! If they do it one more time, I swear I'll pull the twigs out of their Silver Arrows!"
----- A voice came out of the room they supposed was the kitchen, "Molly, just put it in the wash and I'll take care of it as soon as I'm done."
----- Harry looked at Ron, dumbfounded, "Molly!? That's not, that can't be..."
----- Ron looked in wide-eyed amazement at the fiery little girl, "mum???"
----- Harry Started laughing uncontrollably, " Mrs. Weasley, wow, Ginny definitely looks like her mum."
----- "Weird, I guess her brothers were just like Fred and George..." Laughed Ron.
----- Harry murmured," I wonder what would have happened if they meat their uncles more before they died."
----- "I know" Harry said, watching a young (she couldn't have been more than 11 or 12) Molly stamp back up stairs.
----- "All right", she yelled back at Ron's grandmother, "but if Gideon and Fabian pull one more prank on me! I swear there'll be bonfires with broomsticks!"
----- "You wont touch our broomsticks" said a voice entering the room.
----- "Not unless you want Bobadaux powder in your knickers next, that is" said a very similar voice coming from the same direction.
----- Harry and Ron whipped around and saw them.

----- It was amazing, they were both half expecting replicas of Fred and George themselves, and they were identical to very last freckle. But instead of the broad shape of Fred and George, they were looking at sort of hybrids of Ron, Bill, and Percy but with features that couldn't have belonged to any of them. For instance they definitely had Ron's long nose, and wore horn-rimmed glasses like Percy's, and were both built in the tall stature that Ron, Percy and Bill have, but there were definitely mistakes. For instance their hair was much darker than any of the Weasley's hair, it was red, but didn't come off with the flaming quality that Ron's had. They seemed to have fewer Freckles as well. And yet they definitely gave off the same element of "cool" that Bill emulated with such ease.
----- Ron stared at them, open mouthed. "Amazing, just think of what I missed in those uncles!" Exclaimed Ron.
----- "What?" replied Harry as he looked the direction Ron was, confused.
----- "No, Harry, those are my uncles, I never met them because... you know, they died..." said Ron with a small crack in his voice.
----- "Yeah, well... I'm not glad I got to meet my uncle..." said Harry rolling his eyes.
----- "Harry, lets just watch, this is starting to get interesting." Ron implied with a smirk.
----- The woman's voice from the other room was heard once again, "Boys, if you two don't leave your little sister alone, I'll have your father hang you up by your ankles in the attic!" Her voice sounded as if this was an upstanding joke threat.
----- "Right mum", Fabian said in a buoyant sort of way.
----- "But then who would de-gnome the garden?" said Gideon.
----- "We've just finished, by the way" added Fabian.
----- "I would!" said the young Molly as she came back down the stairs.
----- The twins laughed at this.
----- "Please, Mol! You're killing us..." Fabian said when his laugher subsided.
----- "You've been scared of gnomes since you were five." Gideon teased.
----- "Well, you would be too if one had snuck in the house and hidden in your shoe..." Molly said, puffed up with furry, but still now slightly deflated.
----- "I know, it was pretty funny that it bit your toe though..." Fabian said, holding back more laughs.
----- "And even funnier that it swelled up to the size of a golf ball..." Gideon added while attempting to keep a straight face.
----- "The point is that if I find doxy droppings in any of my garments one more time, I'll curse you myself!" Molly said in a temper.
----- "Now, calm down Mol!" Came the woman's voice again. "Boys, leave her alone." The boys went upstairs. Most likely plotting in the same way that the twins do.
----- "Harry, why do you think the pensive brought us here, I mean what does this have to do with Professor McGonagall?" Asked Ron looking around for another sign of a young Minerva.
----- "Ron, look over there!" Said Harry in an excited whisper, "who do you suspect that is?" A young figure who looked like a teenager came in the room. She had long brown hair and a strict voice.
----- "So, where is Molly?" The woman asked as Molly walked excitedly inside the room. "Minerva!" The woman voice yelled back from the room. "Welcome to our humble home. Settle in an...."

----- The voice melted away as Harry and Ron got an odd sensation. There head were pulled from the Pensive.
----- "Potter, Weasley. What are you doing?!" Asked a strict voice. They were speechless as McGonagall looked at them sternly.
----- "Err..." Replied Harry as he looked at Ron.
----- "There is no excuse, now come this way." She added as she pointed a finger at her door and continued out. She dragged them down to Dumbledore's Office.
----- "I caught these two spying in my pensive." She reported to Dumbledore as she he stood up.