Bookish would you rather?

[cactuswatcher]

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1. Would you rather live at Hogwarts or the Shire?
Hogwarts. The Shire is not just dull, it's deadly boring.

2. Would you rather be the hero or the villain?
I have several RPG video games that give that very choice. I play almost exclusively as the hero. Personality failing I guess.

3. Would you rather try to survive with Katness or Arya Stark?
No opinion because I don't know much about GoT. Neither sounds terribly safe.

4. Would you rather skip the first or the last chapter of books?
I have to say the last, because reading the first will let you know if the rest of the book is a pile of crap not worth finishing.

5. Would you rather have unlimited books or live in your favorite book?
Unlimited books, no contest. Your real life is already one story you are "stuck" in. Unlimited books means unlimited stories to take you away from all that.

6. Would you rather live inside a classic romance or a modern romance?
Neither. Real human males have no place in romance novels.

7. Would you rather have a pet dragon or werecat?
A dragon, but honestly, either would be hard to live with.

8. Would you rather try to survive fantasy war or dystopian war?
Fantasy war, because dystopian war requires things to be horrible long before the war starts.

9. Would you rather face off against Voldemort or Belletrix?
That's asking would you rather die horribly with a man or woman sneering and mocking you. I suppose I'd choose Bellatrix since even at 100,00 to 1 against me, I'd have a better odds than against Voldemort.

10. Would you rather be able move objects with your mind or read minds?
Move objects. Merphy's reasons are mine as well.

11. Would you rather live in fantasy or sci-fi?
Sci-fi. I'd get along much better.

12. Would you rather have Snape or Umbridge as a teacher?
Snape. While I never had a full blown Snape or Umbridge as teachers, I have had teachers that tended both ways. I have had teachers who went out of their way to insult students including one who insulted me personally. In their defense, first, I'll say they, like Snape, their knew their subject very well, and despite their behavior did teach. Second, once you were out of their classroom, you'd realize they were just petty and not worth getting upset over. What's more they have very little influence on other teachers. Umbridge on the other hand is an empire builder. Teachers like her not only insist on throwing their weight around in school matters, generally, like Umbridge, they didn't seem to be particularly well versed in their subjects. They were more interested in changing things to suit their horrible personalities. One of my nieces had an assistant principal who suddenly attempted to have the students banned from wearing red and black, because they were *satanic* colors. Of course, the school colors were red and black! Umbridge is the kind of teacher who would show up unannounced at a student's home to warn the parents about their kid being friends with kids she took an arbitrary dislike to.

13. Would you rather live with elves or fairies?
I'd pick folklore fairies or modern literary elves. Folklore elves are pretty nasty creatures.

14. Would you rather discover aliens or mermaids?
Aliens would be far more momentous, but extremely scary. As Merphy points out merfolk are limited to seas, which I don't spend a lot of time near.

15. Would you rather be cursed with Imperio for a week or Crucio for an hour.
I'd probably wimp out and pick Imperio.

16. Would you rather have Sam from LotR or Sean from Lies of Locke Lamora as a best friend?
No opinion. I haven't read the second.

17. Would you rather have Sam Gamgee or Ron Weasley as a best friend?
The way I interpreted Sam when I read LoTR was much different from the grovelling servant of the LoTR movies. Instead I saw a very shrewd, younger version of an avuncular character. I'd pick him. Movie Sam and Ron Weasley are both dullards. I wouldn't object to having both of them as friends, at all. But for a best friend I'd rather have someone wiser and/or smarter.

18. Would you rather have the Time Turner or the Elder Wand?
Would I rather play with lit matches crouching in a puddle of gasoline or hold a hand grenade with the pin and safety handle long gone? Assuming I was qualified to use either, I'd probably pick the Elder Wand and publicly break it in two, so every evil wizard on Earth wouldn't be after me.

19. Would you rather only read physical books or only listen to audio books.
Theoretically with my mild dyslexia, audio books. But, in fact, I've only listened to one audio book and have read thousands of physical books. Do as I say not as I do. ;o) Incidentally Merphy's job is narrating audio books.

20. Would you rather face off against a jabberwock or Pennywise?
I know nothing about the second. But if you'd ever seen the original Tanniel illustration in Through the Looking-Glass of a jabberwock, you wouldn't be in a hurry to pick that!