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Personally, I want Harry to die in the end, cause otherwise it'd be too of a happy fairy tale ending, where the hero survives and the evil defeated. Although I really doubt JK Rowling will kill him off. As for the two major characters that will die, I also think one of them is either going to be Snape or Wormtail (I'm surprised we didn't see more of Wormtail in book 6) sacrificing themselves for Harry's (or the 'good' side's) sake. The other character that will die is probably going to be someone close to Harry, like Hagrid, or another character that means a lot to Harry, which would at least make the ending a little less happy and fairy tale-ish. And about the theory that Harry might also be a horcrux, I think it kinda makes sense and kinda doesn't, although I don't think it'll be like that in the books. It totally makes sense because the night Voldermort killed Harry, it is described that Voldemort gave a piece of himself to Harry (e.g that's why Harry can speak Parseltongue). Then on the other side, does this mean that Voldemort accidently made Harry a horcrux (on the night he tried to kill Harry)? If not, why would he make Harry a horcrux when he knew from the prophecy that he had to kill Harry ("Neither can survive while the other lives" or something in those words)? Also, I just have to mention that I also believe Snape is actually on the 'good' side.

Well, we won't be doing anything until it actually actually happens, and by that time it'll be too late. Like my friend said the other day, we always say we're going to learn from our mistakes, that we'll be ready for the next disaster, but we will never learn. Judging by the replies, half of us don't even care, and don't even give it a second thought. Don't we even care if our children have to suffer through something we've caused? Gosh, we're just becoming more and more selfish and greedy.

I try not to stereotype people, but it still happens. I probably do it at least once a day, on the subway, at school etc. I don't do it on purpose, I just automatically do it without even realizing what I'm doing.

Suicide can be considered cowardly because it is a person not being strong enough to face up to life's problems and work through them. Yeah, I see what you mean. In my opinion, suicide is usually the last step you take, a step you take when you really see no hope in other solutions to your problems. People suiciding must have already tried to face their problems, but unfortunately lost all hope. Yes, for some people it takes more courage to live than to die, but for most people it takes more courage to die than to live. Why else would we be so afraid of death? I agree with indy500fan that commiting suicide takes a lot of courage. It is a selfish act, but coward? I don't really agree. Some people yes. Me, personally im not afraid, when it comes to me ill embrace it and be at peace. I've already ALMOST died once... To most people, yes. Most people are afraid of death, not all people are as open to death or as sane as you are.

Yes, for some people it takes more courage to live than to die, but for most people it takes more courage to die than to live. Why else would we be so afraid of death? I agree with indy500fan that commiting suicide takes a lot of courage. It is a selfish act, but coward? I don't really agree.

We have to do a five minute long speech on a topic in Swedish class, and we have to argue if we are for and against it. I chose to talk about active euthanasia. I personally am for euthanasia, and think it should be legalized, and here are some of my arguments. 1. We have different rights in life, and I'm pretty sure everyone will agree we should have a right to control our own life. Then we should also have a right to control our own death. So if you get sick and there is absolutely no cure, I think you have all the right in the world to die an earlier death to not have to suffer. 2. Who wants to suffer? Everything we've invented on earth makes life easier for us somehow, makes us suffer less, like for instance medicine. Wanting to escape the suffering is only human. I have more arguments for euthanasia, but I won't write them all here. I wanna know what your opinions on active euthanasia is.

Well, you could always be the first to suggest it even though other schools don't have it ^_^ Yeah, well you have to start looking for a job before the day itself. And most shops, restaurants and other companies know about this day, so it's probably not so difficult to find one. Yeah, donating yourself is really good, but this "Operations dagsverket" is something for everyone, which makes it more fun, and you're more motivated, and you help others along the way.

This Tuesday, my school in Sweden had something called "Operations Dagsverket". This is a day when every student that goes to high school looks for a job, and works for a few hours to earn about $30. In the end this money is turned in, and it is chosen to be donated to an organization helping the poor. This year the money collected is going to go to building schools in Rwanda. Last year students in Stockholm (the capital city) collected more than 6 million SEK (which is about $830000), and the year before that, about just as much. I think this is a really good way for students to get some working experience as well as help others. Does your school have a day like this? Or anything similar to this? If not, you should suggest this to your school principle or something, cause I think this is a brilliant way of helping yourself as well as others :D

I can't even look into the sun for 1 second o.o And I read you can get blind by staring at the sun :/

How can you have a hamster/mouse/rat/whatever you have in that cage in your room?? Doesn't it make a hell lot of noise when you sleep?! I have a mouse downstairs, and I can hear it eat and stuff when I'm upstairs. Hamster, hes called Mojo. I can't sleep when its too quiet, so he helps a lot, my pc is also on 24/7 with nice little mIRC sounds going on in the background and 5 fans keeping it cool :) I'm the exact opposite of you, can't sleep with the least sound. And you shoudn't keep your comp on 24/7 :o

How can you have a hamster/mouse/rat/whatever you have in that cage in your room?? Doesn't it make a hell lot of noise when you sleep?! I have a mouse downstairs, and I can hear it eat and stuff when I'm upstairs.

Yeah, when it comes to doing a speech infront of people, or doing a test or anything I get nervous of, I always try to think of other things to keep my mind off the nervous thing. It really helps. And also, ask yourself what there really is to be nervous about, and you'll see there's actually no reason to be nervous about it at all.

I don't think writing a list of things to talk about is a good idea... that's just silly. Just call her, and hopefully conversation will float on fine, if it doesn't, then too bad.

:o I definitely didn't know this flu has been going on for 10 years... I've never heard of it before. Media started reporting about deaths caused by bird flu this year and then they started having big headlines in the newspapers about how bird flu had reached Sweden, and so I thought this whole thing was some kind of new flu. God, we've slaughtered many birds..too many...

This summer I'm going back to China again, although only for 3 weeks this time. Then in August my family's going to go to Puerto Rico!!!!

I was born in China, and moved to Sweden with my family when I was 4, so I don't remember much about China... I've been back to China a few times since then, and yeah, I do like China, but I can't imagine actually living there. I used to think Sweden was the best country in the world, and nowhere is better than Sweden, but now however, I really can't wait to get out of Sweden. I still like the country, but I'd like to try something new. Oh, and the worst thing about Sweden is its winters. They are soooo long and dark, can't stand them.

Who has the internet and doesn't have a computer? Um, at least half the world. At least half the world has internet but not a computer? What do they do, browse on the LCD screens built into their palms? Oh, I mis-read Papickett's answer, thought it said "Who doesn't have internet and a computer?" Nevermind.

Who has the internet and doesn't have a computer? Um, at least half the world.

Hmm, bad teachers, where do I even start? Well, in 8th to 9th grade I had a horrible Geography/History teacher. His nickname among students was Michael Jackson, cause he kind of resembled him..and he always got these weird twitches. I practically learned nooothing with him. Every lesson, we did the same thing. First we read through the text in the text book and then individually we answered some questions regarding the text. If you didn't manage to answer all the questions during class time, it was homework. I always ended up chatting away the whole lesson when we were to do individual work. Also, he never lectured us himself, all he did was read through what it said on the book with us. The tests we got from him were totally weird too. He always gave us the exact questions that were going to come up in the test. So it was just a matter of learning them by heart. He always had 2 analysing questions in the end and those questions would determine if you would get an MVG (the best grade here in Sweden). And almost no one ever got MVG from him. There would be like one person every test that got an MVG. Then he would take aaaages to correct a test. It sometimes took him 1-2 months, and by the time he did do it, we were all like "Huh? Which test?" And then "Ohhhh, the one loong time ago..." The most stupid thing ever was that wrote down people who were active during class. Sometimes he asked questions regarding the text we just read or other questions he made up, and then he chose a person who has his/her hand raised to answer it, and then he would put a mark beside that person's name on his class-list. That's how he divided between the active people in class and the non-active. Then there's my Technology class teacher that seriously is *the* worse teacher ever. He was stinky, yellow-haired and yellow-teethed :x Almost all students were scared of him, because he loved to yell at us for no reason at all. He always said "Yeah, if you guys have any questions later, don't hesitate to ask." And then when you do ask him he goes like "DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU HOW TO DO THAT?!!!!!!!" Also, if he couldn't find something, like his pen, he blamed it on us, and he got mad at us. Idiot teacher.

Hehe, that's certainly a problem I have. There's this person that I like, and of course it'd be nice to have him know how I feel, but at the same time I always end up saying things to defend myself, to make me seem like I'm not interested. Wow, how impressive.

Yeah, I would kill 500 people if it would stop AIDS, and mooost preferably people who don't want to live anymore. Although as someone said before, the last person to die would then be myself, as I wouldn't be able to live after doing that.

Hmm, a good question. I enjoyed my time from kindergarten to 5th grade, I think, can't really remember now. But 6th grade made me really unsocial with the people at school, because I had just switched from an English school to a Swedish school, with a new language to learn and it was hard to make friends not knowing a language so well. Plus I'm kinda a shy person, so it made everything even harder. In 7th-9th grade I had a group of friends of like 6 people in my class, but I totally withdrew myself from the rest of the class, because I seriously hated the people in my class. They were the type that destroyed stuff and smoked and drank and bullied people to be "cool". Now in high school I'm much more social, and I do stuff outside school with people, and life's pretty ok at the moment :)

Yeah, I agree with what you said up there, Scruffy5etcetc.

Yeah, sometimes I also think of stuff and it takes forever to fall alseep. I try to force myself to stop thinking, but then I start thinking "stop thinking, stop thinking," which is annoying, so I start thinking of something else, and then it just goes on in a cycle till I fall alseep.

The longest time I can recall to have stood in a line was when my family was lining up right under statue of Liberty to get up there. The line was soooo long, we waited like an hour.