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Post by StormAngel on Dec 18, 2006 18:18:13 GMT -5
hmm.... What are Regents? We never had them here...
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Post by misshoneychurch88 on Dec 18, 2006 22:34:24 GMT -5
they're a type of standardized tests. I know NY has them, and I think there are a couple of other states that have them too. They're in pretty much every subject you tak in High School
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Post by StormAngel on Dec 18, 2006 22:56:22 GMT -5
oh I see... Thanks for telling me that..  ~~ |
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Post by misshoneychurch88 on Dec 19, 2006 11:52:13 GMT -5
np prob...they're also really obnoxious, I didn't even study for my bio one and I got an A, and I'm not really a science person...they're kind of a joke, honestly
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Post by StormAngel on Dec 19, 2006 18:03:33 GMT -5
wow... cool.. We have something like that here but it is a leaving exam for students out of Primary school... I slept through my maths paper and got a A+... can't believe it... |
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Post by misshoneychurch88 on Dec 20, 2006 0:34:37 GMT -5
I thinks thats the way most standardized tests are...if you have a brain, you can not study, finish in under an hour and then get an A
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Post by StormAngel on Dec 20, 2006 0:46:18 GMT -5
lolz how true ~~ |
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Post by ιady ταвz on Dec 22, 2006 16:37:45 GMT -5
i took the PSATs and well i did ok...can do better...i failed my chemistry regents, not fail but didnt do great..68%  |
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Post by childminerva on Dec 22, 2006 19:12:55 GMT -5
We didn't have Regents in my state...we had something called C.A.T.S, and it sounds similar. I did well on those, even though I hadn't had Chem the year I took the high school science test.  I did alright on the PSAT...then my ACT and SAT scores were good. But the big thing at school was C.A.T.S testing and it was so rediculous. |
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Post by ιady ταвz on Dec 22, 2006 20:24:29 GMT -5
PSATs and SATs are most important for NY i think, then the regents...good job on passing..on the PSAT i got 167/240
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Post by DaBao on Dec 29, 2006 4:40:21 GMT -5
If I do run into a TR/MM fic I just say she was stupid and hadn't discovered Albus yet. Here, here! I agree! While I find it unlikely they could have been together, there is that slight, extremely miniscule possibility. After all Tom Riddle was a very 'good' kid who didn't cause teachers trouble and did well on his studies. |
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Post by misshoneychurch88 on Dec 30, 2006 21:39:11 GMT -5
hey, way to get back on track...aain, I lvoe the angst possible with TRMM, it's so good, and then Albus can be the big hero and save her ooh yeah, the SATs/PSATs are really important...thankfuly I did really well on them, though oddly, I got in the 96th percentile on the PSAT's, but didn't get a scholarship or anything. I though I was gonna get one, but I guess I must have been just under the line or something |
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Post by StormAngel on Dec 30, 2006 22:58:11 GMT -5
wow... I'm taking AP calculus... what's that anyway?? I dun know but I've gotta take it in Year 4...
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Post by misshoneychurch88 on Dec 30, 2006 23:17:45 GMT -5
it's college level calc...pretty interesting, but by the end I had serious senoritus
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Post by StormAngel on Dec 31, 2006 0:20:16 GMT -5
argh. I'm seriously panicking.
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Post by DaBao on Dec 31, 2006 2:26:39 GMT -5
...And what a way to get back off topic! Hahaha, I have exams coming up this Tuesday I believe... hopefully all will go well. I studied, but I wonder if I had studied hard enough.
TRMM is pretty good, I like it better when they're students. Albus could be the hero and save her, but not when she's a student! No way, no how! Actually, yes, but I'd be very disproving.
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Post by ιady ταвz on Jan 2, 2007 20:19:35 GMT -5
TRMM is pretty good, I like it better when they're students. Albus could be the hero and save her, but not when she's a student! No way, no how! Actually, yes, but I'd be very disproving. yay!! that would make a nice fic |
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Post by Drake on Jan 8, 2007 19:41:56 GMT -5
You really don't have to speculate on their ages and whether Minerva and Tom Riddle went to school together or not. All you have to do is go to the Lexicon's time line and narrow your search to Minerva McGonagall and Voldemort to find out that they did indeed go to school together and probably knew each other. How well they knew each other, romatically or not, now that is speculation. According to the Lexicon, these are the facts: Minerva McGonagall was born October 4, 1925 (according to JKR). She attended Hogwarts from September 1937 to June 1944 and was sorted into Gryffindor. (We know that because Jo has stated that the Heads of House were members of the House they head.) Tom Marvolo Riddle was born December 31, 1926 (JKR's date). He attended Hogwarts from September 1938 to June 1945 and was, of course, sorted into Slytherin. There was only one year of age and schooling between them. There is a really good chance that they knew each other. Now whether they associated with each other is not known. If Minerva is a pureblood (many people seem to think so) it is entirely possible that TMR might have sought her out, as he did so many of the purebloods that were there during his time at Hogwarts. I am certainly not saying that they were together in any way, I am just saying it is possible due to their ages and years in school. You have to take into consideration too, that she is a Gryffindor and he is a Slytherin, and those two houses mix like oil and water. The dates fit well because TMR said, in the Chamber of Secrets, that he was sixteen years old when the Chamber was opened by him while he was at Hogwarts. If you subtract 1926 from 1992 (When the Chamber was opened again) you get 66 years. If you subtract the 50 years since the Chamber was first opened you get 16, the age Tom told Harry he was when he preserved his sixteen year old self in the diary. He would have been in his fifth year (first year as a prefect) and Minerva in her sixth year. Most likely, she was also a prefect, so it is almost certain they would have had some interaction at Hogwarts together. At the end of Harry's sixth year, Minerva would be 72 years old and TMR would be 71 years old. Kay So the chamber was opened in Min's 7th year?  *is attacked by plot bunnies* |
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Post by MinnieQuill on Jan 8, 2007 21:39:49 GMT -5
No, Tom was in his 5th year when the chamber was opened therefore she would have been in her 6th year. *grins madly* I love how I accidently got the ages right in my fic. mwahahahaha
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Post by JKMcGonagall on Jan 8, 2007 22:08:51 GMT -5
No, Tom wrote in the diary that he had preserved his 16 year old self in order to be able to continue Salazar Slytherin's 'noble' work at some time in the future. Tom was born on December 31, so he had to wait until September of the next year to start at Hogwarts. So when the chamber was opened in the school year of 1942/1943 he would have been a 5th year student. Minerva was a year ahead of him, so she would have been a 6th year, not a 7th year. This is how I figured it out.
Year
1937/1938 Minerva (1st year)
1938/1939 Minerva (2nd year) Tom (1st year)
1939/1940 Minerva (3rd year) Tom (2nd year)
1940/1941 Minerva (4th year) Tom (3rd year)
1941/1942 Minerva (5th year) Tom (4th year)
1942/1943 Minerva (6th year) Tom (5th year) CoS opened
1943/1944 Minerva (7th year) Tom (6th year)
1944/1945 ************** Tom (7th year)
The Chamber had to be opened in 1942/1943 in order for it to correspond to Harry's year of 1992/1993 which was 50 years later when the Chamber was opened again.
Also, in CoS (US version), on page 241, Riddle is writing back to Harry in the diary and he states..."In my fifth year, the Chamber was opened and the monster attacked several students, finally killing one." He also states, in the Chamber, that it had taken him five school years to find out enough information to open the Chamber.
Kay
Sorry, I had to put a spacer **** in, otherwise Tom wouldn't line up with his column.
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Post by MinnieQuill on Jan 8, 2007 23:20:13 GMT -5
That's what I just said...I know the other dates in my story are wrong but the ages of the characters aren't.
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Post by Ivy_Wize on Jan 15, 2007 17:19:43 GMT -5
Sorry I'm late... Just thought I'd chime in. My second favourite ship is TR/MM, because there's a difference between Riddle and Voldemort. I think it's a MPD thing. She loved Riddle, not the mass murderer he became. Like Harry is the same body, but not necessarily the same person, as the Chosen One. The "Dark Lord" and the "One" have to battle, but Harry and Tom are just two boys who grow into these super-human roles. That's my spin. Something to mull over next time you get writer's block.
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Post by EloquentPhoenix on Jan 15, 2007 17:26:08 GMT -5
TR/MM. Wow. Cannot get my head around that one, especially since evidence points to Riddle being very evil even then. He framed Hagrid, he has never known love and does not understand it and thus underestimates it.
But I guess I can see what you mean with them becoming these roles later, it's not impossible, whatever floats your boat.
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Post by Ivy_Wize on Jan 16, 2007 6:16:35 GMT -5
Boats? Who said anything about Durmstrang? Karkaroff was acting on the Imperius, I tell you! *shifty eyes*
Okay, that was random. Sorry. I think something happened to turn Riddle into Voldemort. Like... Minerva breaking up with him because she has a crush on her professor. All right, that one wouldn't work, but think of Lizzie Borden. Does anyone here know about Lizzie Borden?
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
Well, that's the infamous rhyme, at any rate. In a short amount of time, Lizzie had gone from a fun-loving individual to a murderess. Now think if that amount of time applied to Tom. In the beginning of his 5th year, he could have changed from Tom to Voldemort for no reason what so ever. And I've read a great story about Minerva showing him the anagram... Oh, here's another bit: Molly remembered the gamekeeper before Hagrid. Hagrid was gamekeeper the same year he got expelled. Which was the year the chamber was opened. This raises new questions, I think.
But like you said, that's just my opinion. So, someone else want to share?
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