Thoughts of Potter's books. Part 4 Why don't other teachers like Lockhart? I guess other teachers don’t like Lockhart because he always was trying to poke his nose into their business. He was trying to give them advice which they didn’t need. He was boasting around all the time, telling everyone how great and smart he is. However, at the same time, he was making some stupid mistakes which only proved he was not as good as he was trying to convince everybody. Like removing bones from Harry’s arm or dropping his own wand at dueling club. Why is memory loosing a good punishment for him? His awful handling with other people rebounds on himself. At least in the future, he wouldn’t take credit for what other people would do. Why Harry and Ron brought Lockhart with them into Chamber of Secrets? That is the question! Definitely. Maybe it was some kind of impulse and they did it without thinking at all. He as helper was absolutely useless in Chamber. In fact, he brought more troubles. Boys were upset about Jinny’s disappearance and Lockhart was kind of in charge of rescuing her. So, they went to him instead of telling everything McGonagall. As for me, it was obvious other teacher had made fun of Lockhart. Though, boys were too shocked by the news, so they didn’t notice it.

Thoughts of Potter's books. Part 3 1 – Does Dobby get that his actions were dangerous? I think Dobby’s actions are quite childish, thoughtless and dumb even. He couldn’t hope that locked gates would prevent Harry from going to school, could he? It was obvious he’d find some way. There is similar situation with bewitched bludger. It was dangerous indeed for Harry. Chances were that he could die. Surely, maybe Dobby was thinking he could step in to save Harry if everything went wrong. Nevertheless, Dobby didn’t bother to know Harry’s opinion about all that situation. Elf just decided what wizard would prefer. I think it’s against every single rule of proper behavior of house elves. He at least had to enquire Harry’s opinion. All Dobby’s actions were similar to actions of a little child with huge power. 2 – Why Dumbledore was walking around the castle? Was it true that he had wanted to get a mug of cocoa? Many people in Harry Potter’s universe consider Dumbledore as a very eccentric man with bunch of oddities. However, he’s a very clever and cunning person, who knows much more than any wizard and who can plan his actions 10 steps ahead. Also, we already know, that Dumbledore have some strange kind of connection with the castle. He knows a lot about what happening there, where people are stayed and so on. So, it could be he had sensed something strange and left his room. Also, it is not inconceivable that he could enquire something about future events. Wizards could travel to past, so I think there is no problem to travel to the future. Also, maybe he just wanted a mug of cocoa and to have a short promenade around the castle, simple as that.

Thoughts of Potter's books. Part 1 What do you think of complainings. Should Harry complain about rough bludger? Complainings is the controversial topic. There is some kind of delicate balance between nagging and whining. Sometimes it’s necessity indeed. However, it’s hard to say when people should complain about something or not. At work sometimes maybe, if colleagues don’t understand even after the tenth explanation. Though it can destroy good attitude between workers and one can start to look for faults from another one. Surely there is another kind of complaining – moaning. I don’t like much when people moan. Although, I don’t think I can do something about it because everybody moans, including myself. People need it sometimes. We can get some good advice through moaning, or take it out on. In that, we should be careful and don’t overtax people’s patience. In Harry’s case, I think he should complain about that rough bludger. It was extremely dangerous to play under that conditions. Quidditch isn’t easy and safe sport itself, let alone the bad weather matches and that crazy ball. Wizards aren’t almighty, and so as Harry. He could die, he should think of it. However, he was in so many mortal dangers before, so probably he just doesn’t believe he really can die.

Thoughts of Potter's books. Part 2 1 - Why did Harry think their team would lose if they call off the match? In stressing situations Harry doesn’t think much. He thinks the very first thing that had come into his mind is the only true one. We can see many confirmations to that. For instance, that occasion with a gate at King Cross station, when Ron and Harry decided to fly to school by car. So, probably it was the very first thing that came into his mind. I don’t think there is some kind of rule which would compel players to face with deadly circumstances. Although, other teachers saw that bludger was acting strange and did nothing. Sometimes I don’t understand what wizards are thinking about at all. 2 - Why do you think madam Hooch didn't stop the game? I have absolutely no idea. It was obvious that bludger was acting in a very strange way, and thus, that it was bewitched. The terms match was going were dangerous even without the crazy ball. With it, they became even more insecure for Harry. So, I don’t know why they did absolutely nothing to prevent a disaster. 3 - Were there situations when something went in a way it shouldn't? What was your reaction? Yes, many times. In our country, people don’t bother much about rules or way of stuff working. All they interested about is the final result. Even now at my work, everybody breaks the rules. I don’t like it at all. I’m a strong rule follower, so it makes me crazy. Usually, I’m trying to influence a situation. Make everything working in a right way. Unfortunately, in most cases, it’s completely useless. This kind of fights is like a fight against myself. In these cases, I work only my own nerves. So, at some point I’m giving up. 4 - Do you think Wood made a good decision letting Harry play against the rough bludger? It wasn’t smart decision at all. I can understand Wood. He’s obsessed with Quidditch. He wanted to win. He wanted to win and to prove everybody that their team was the best on the field, even if their opponents had better broomsticks. And it is true, of course. However, he put Harry in real danger. Yes, Harry was determined to win as much as Wood. But Oliver didn’t think of how he would treat himself if something really awful happened to Harry.

“The Theatre Near the Bridge” Last week my friend and I were at the Christmas meetings at “The Theatre Near the Bridge”. They’ve been holding these meetings for a few years now, however, despite the fact the theater is my favorite I was at the performance for the first time. That evening was absolutely amazing! We watched the play called “Hanuma”. I used to think “The Theatre Near the Bridge“ performs some horror shows, tragicomedies, dark humor plays and so on. It is not for nothing the slogan of the theater is “The Theatre Near the Bridge is the mysterious theater“. Though, that play had so less common with their usual shows. “Hanuma” is merry and funny musical comedy with Georgian traditional dances and songs, which were performed by lead actors and actresses of the theater. In spite the play was Georgian it provided extremely good festive and even Christmas atmosphere and feelings. After the play, all viewers were able to enjoy at least four more shows. One was played by knife thrower and his assistant. It was really scary! But maybe just for me, who knows. The second was in the hall. Actors and actresses were holding a lottery and after that one of the girls was singing to us. The third one was located on the small stage, which was trans made as a chamber of horrors. It was the scariest one in all my life! Still, also it was so funny. And for the last thing, we had an excursion to the backstage of the theater! One of the actors of “Hanuma” himself showed and told us about interesting places there. We saw makeup rooms, backstage narrow corridors and steep staircases, lots of play’s stuff here and there, we even were able to touch all of those things and take photos. The atmosphere there is absolutely unbelievable! “The Theatre Near the Bridge“ is one of the best by rights.

Does it sound natural? Help me please to get if I sound naturally or not. What sounds I have problems with? What should I pay attention and training? My record is by the link: https://yadi.sk/d/8B1zgUqp39J7n3

Are our zoos cruel to wild animals? I don’t really like zoos. It’s hard to see how pour animals are living in cells. There aren’t many of truly good zoos. Most of them are absolutely awful. Cells are very small, animals don’t have enough space for living, for active moving. Often we can see only one example of spices while many of animals need some company. They can’t get various food and all kinds of vitamins, sometimes some of the zoos can’t provide a fresh or original fruits for any particular spices. I’m sure all of these reasons are only the top of the iceberg, however, isn’t this enough? Even if a zoo is very big, have a lot of money and sponsors for keeping animals in appropriate living condition doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to hold animals there. Surely, animals who wasn’t born in wildlife can’t survive there, but it’s another topic. The main idea of those who build zoos and those who goes there is how else people can see the exotic creature without a zoo. Still, we should remember this slogan was created decades of years ago. Now we have lots of technologies which can help us even to “see” dinosaurs. Anyway, with or without zoos we can’t see most of the animals of our planet – there are so many of them! We keep founding out information about new ones from the Internet or TV programs. Also, it’s impossible to watch the natural behavior of a wild animal in zoos. There’s one more idea is saving the population of dying breed. However, I still can’t agree that zoo is a right choice. So, what to do then? I think conservancy area is a good alternative, which can solve all these problems.

If you could live in any era, what would it be? Why? I'm really interested in a period of development of North America. I like the era of cowboys, sheriffs, Red Indians, vast prairies, building the transcontinental railroad and so on. I would like to read books by Mayne Reid and Jules Verne when I was a child. I still like them. I'm not sure why I like this era so much. That was really rude and tough time, full of cruelty, violence and injustice. I mean all this situation with the injustice of indigenous inhabitants. There were lots of deaths. People killed each other for nothing with ease. There were no conveniences, no rights, no equality. It was an era of slavery and discriminatory of women. But still, it was a kind of romantic period full of hope, full of ambitions and full of chases for aims and dreams. It was an era of an American dream. I completely understand that it would be maybe one of the worst eras to living considering I'm a girl. However, I prefer to stay a little bit naive and think about that time like about the period focusing on goals and hope.

Talk about the role of money in your life. I think money is not the most important thing in the Universe. There are so many different things that are so much more significant. You can't buy the most important things in the world by money. Like the beauty of the nature, love and trust of other people or animals and so on. There was one interesting quote in one of my favorite books. There in that story, the world was ruined by a big war and there was just a bunch of survived people who were waiting only for a death. One of them had a lot of money but she couldn't eat them, she couldn't buy something, that money was absolutely useless to her. Our own world has a lot of examples when money becomes nothing but a paper, people don't need them in some particular period of time in their lives. Although, I have to accept that it's impossible to live without them at all nowadays. We need them to buy a food, to buy cloths, to pay for some service. However, I'm pretty sure that necessity of a big amount of money is nothing that a fashion. The modern world is a world of goods, traders, and customers, and the traders need their stuff was selling. They create lots of adverts to make people be interested in their goods, so we have lots of beautiful commercials that made us think we need some things that we don't need indeed. Then there are more than that. Customers start selling to customers. The machine is moving on. Fashion. Everybody want to have a dress like from a celebrity, the bike like from a guy next door, a car like from a boss. We don't actually need all this stuff. We just buy it because we have money to buy it and because of commercials. People don't live according to their needs anymore. We waste tons of food and water every day, we are throwing away almost new things, we have stopped to value really important stuff. I've read one interesting article by one of the travelers. He wrote he had spent less money on all his travels than he was spending in his daily life. Why is he spending much more now? Because he has them, because of public opinion and fashion. Surely, we can't live without any money, still, we actually don't need to have all the money in the globe.