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I'm a little bit behind schedule with my posts; this post was supposed to go up last Friday, but last Friday I was in Italy and I completely forgot to schedule anything because I'm a moron. So let's try that again...
Today I'm doing something that's just plain, good ol' fashioned fun. Many of you are probably familiar with the Marry, Kiss, Cliff Tag, and the Be, Room, Cliff Tag is much the same, only it's more along the lines of bromance than romance.
So, if you're a heterosexual lady you'd talk about some fictional fellas for Marry, Kiss, Cliff, but for Be, Room, Cliff you have to decide between three different female characters. Pick one to be, one to be your roommate, and one to throw off a cliff.
My favourite wizarding family in Harry Potter is the Black family so, naturally, I thought I'd do Be, Room, Cliff with Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa!
Be
I thought long and hard about this one. Now obviously I don't want to be Bellatrix - she's cray - but I like both Andromeda and Narcissa. Ultimately, however, I think I'd have to be Andromeda. Now obviously out of her and Narcissa we could argue she gets the short straw, she loses her husband and her only child while Narcissa does not, but I don't think I could live with the few prejudices Narcissa has. That's not to say Andromeda isn't prejudiced - obviously she has no problem with muggleborns because she marries one - but I've never been fond of the fandom's way of her painting her as this saintly figure who loves everyone for who they are on the inside. We know from the way Tonks talks about her that she's not always easy to live with. But that's one of the reasons I love her despite the fact that we see so little of her; Andromeda, like Narcissa, is on no one's side but her own.
Room
If I'm not going be Bellatrix then I'm sure as hell not going to share a room with her, especially if I'm the sister who married the muggleborn. I like to imagine that Narcissa would be quite a fun roommate; maybe not in a 'let's eat Ben & Jerry's and watch Bridget Jones's Diary' kind of way, but certainly in a 'let's judge the rest of the world together' kind of way. And frankly most of my friendships have been formed over a mutual dislike of other people. I'm painting a lovely picture of myself, aren't I? Plus I really love Narcissa, I think she's a fantastic character, and considering how much of a neat freak she is I think I'd go mad if Andromeda was my roommate. I like a bit of organised chaos.
Cliff
Don't get me wrong, Bellatrix is another fantastic, fascinating character, but out of the three she's the one I'd have to kill. I don't want to be her, I certainly don't want to live with her, and ultimately she killed my favourite character; if she's going to go around throwing people through suspicious looking upholstery, I'm going to take pleasure in throwing her over the side of the cliff. Besides, knowing her, she'd probably be fine.
So what would you do?
This is such a fun idea and you picked some great characters to choose from! I think I'd choose the same way you did if I had to. Bellatrix is just crazy enough that she would find a way to be just fine after throwing her off a cliff. You'd have to be sure she didn't have her wand when you did it though!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Hehe, this is very true; I'll make sure disarm her before I chuck her over the edge.
DeleteThis is such a fun post! I had no idea what Be, Room, Cliff was until reading it. We call it Kiss, Marry, Kill. I like the bromance side of this switched around. I would have to agree with your assessment of those three. I would choose exactly the same way. I wouldn't be able to live with Bellatrix at all.
ReplyDeleteThanks. :) Yep, Be, Room, Cliff is basically just the friendship version of Kiss, Marry, Kill. I don't think anyone wants to live with Bellatrix!
DeleteThis is an awesome post. I agree completely with your conclusion. Even though Andromeda loses a lot of people who are close to her, I think she probably had a more enjoyable life before that then Narcissa did. I always imagine that Narcissa life was kind of cold, like she was. And of course, lets throw Bellatrix off a cliff. Can you imagine rooming with her? She would be such a Voldemort fangirl. She'd probably hang posters of him on her wall like other girls have posters of Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers or Nsync (if they're old school). Yikes!
ReplyDeleteEw, that would be terrible. Having said that, I think I'd rather have posters of Voldemort on my wall than Justin Bieber...
DeleteLove this post! Bellatrix would definitely be going over the cliff because of what she did to a certain character who was also my favorite in the entire series. There's no way I'd ever want her for a roommate, so I definitely wouldn't want to actually be her, either, lol.
ReplyDeleteThanks! :) Ah yes, that one character that none of us will ever be over... *weeps*
DeleteI love this post, it's so much fun! Like Jaclyn I'd never heard of Be, Room, Cliff before you shared it - if it's okay with you, I might do one of my own? (Linking back to this of course!).
ReplyDeleteI like your logic, Bellatrix would definitely be going off the cliff for me too. I'd struggle with choosing between being Andromeda and Narcissa - like you said, Andromeda seems to get the short straw, but as she's also a neat freak, I couldn't be her room mate (she'd kill me within a day or so, I'm VERY messy!), so I guess I'd have to be Andromeda too!
Of course that's okay! I'd love to see what you do with a tag like this. :)
DeleteI love this^^ SO MUCH FUN :D I agree with how you sorted these for sure. Bella is a great character and all, but she's batty and I would never want to be her, or be in the same room as her...plus she killed Sirius so I'd want to kill her aaannd off the cliff she goes XD I think Andromeda is a fascinating character and I wish we'd learned even more about her so I agree with that one too. And I think Narcissa would be the best one to room with too!
ReplyDeleteI wish we'd learned more about Andromeda, too! Yep, I'll never be able to forgive Bellatrix for what she did to Sirius...
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