Harry Potter Blogfest Today! Who Would Be Your Friends?

Today is the day that the Harry Potter Blogfest is taking place - hosted by Michael Di Gesu on his blog In Time...

All you have to do is decide who your two friends would be at Hogwarts. And then write a little something about what sort of trio you would be.

So who would be my friends? One of them came to me immediately but the second one I had to think about carefully.

In the end I cheated a little - this character was technically a student, and it can be claimed that they still are a student.

I've got you intrigued now haven't I?

So who would be my first best friend? Well it had to be Luna Lovegood. Why? Well she's a bit odd, a bit random, a bit on the mad side of things. And I feel, as a very shy (and slightly mad!) person, that I'd probably end up being very good friends with Luna. I think we'd get on rather well. We would probably migrate towards each other on our first day as everyone else made heroic partnerships, and decided who the henchmen would be. She's not really an outsider but then again she's not really popular in terms of school friends, which was more or less the same social group that I found myself in at school.


And for my second choice of friend I thought outside of the box, well maybe just on the edge of it really. But that's just how I roll!
She was technically a student, in fact really she still is. She still wears the uniform and hangs around. But she doesn't have to attend lessons.
Guessed it yet? Yes it's Moaning Myrtle! Although she seems unfriendly and a little bit hostile at first she seems to mellow a little as she gets to know Harry and company.
I would probably meet Myrtle via the girls toilets that she hangs out in... if I knew that everyone avoided those toilets I would be very curious to find out why - and like I said Myrtle isn't that bad.
So I reckon she'd be a good friend to have. Plus she could prove useful when it came to looking out for prefects, teachers etc. (Not that we'd be up to anything that we shouldn't :-P)
And I reckon we could have some fun unleashing Myrtle on Malfoy and his cronies - what can they do to her?

So  it would seem that we would be an innocent enough looking group... with mischievous intentions!

So I may have bent the rules of this blogfest slightly in more ways than one... but it's my blog and I'll rule bend if I want to! :-)