Anglo-Chinese School (Potter)

I'm personally elated and shocked that I got 23/25 for my Literature essay on 'The Tragic Genre'. For those of you who don't remember it, think about a certain piece of June holiday homework for which we had to read Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman as part of studying about Tragedy as a literary genre. And of course don't forget the bit about the essay-writing.

23/25 is indeed extremely high, and just from reading Mr. Lee's comments alone, I would never have guessed that I would get such high marks. Trash that, I would never have even guessed I would've gotten over 20, considering I didn't really read either play.

I think Govind's right in his comparison of Literature as Defence Against the Dark Arts, Mr. Lee as Professor Lupin and myself as Harry Potter. Interesting concept though.

Anyway, speaking of ACS-Potterworld parallels, here's an interesting scene today before lessons started.

Mdm Lena Yeo was informing us, 'Next Monday, as there will be no Chapel in view of the Common Tests, Mr. Soo will be taking over the 1-hour for his lessons. Please be prepared.'

Upon hearing that, everyone rushes to check their time-table, only to find out that the original Life-sciences period was 9am - 10am, meaning to say that the new Life-sciences lesson would be from 8am - 10am, or twice of what we would normally get on Mondays.

And then someone goes, 'Oh dangit. Double-potions next Monday.'

Amusing, but Mr. Soo in many ways does resemble Snape in terms of behaviour and conduct during lessons, apart from the fact that Snape is far wittier than most.

History and History of Magic automatically correspond, unless you're talking about Sec 1 History, because Professor Binns is in no way like Mr. Singh. That should be pretty obvious, heh.

I would think Mr. Singh as more of Gilderoy Lockhart - all self-praise and no work done at all.

So, how about students?

I would presume it safe to start by saying John Loh resembles Percy Weasley almost identically, and then Neville Tan isn't a namesake of Neville Longbottom for nothing - they truly are similar.

Personally, I would see the character of Hermione most in Kevin Wong, for the fact that he is hardworking like her, yet still able to maintain a decent social life. I shall not name those who are too hardworking to maintain a social life though.

Zhang Quan reminds me the most of Ron Weasley, perhaps because he's one of my best friends (not implying that I'm like Harry Potter, because that's a definite no) and because of the... aura. (Yes, zQ aura. Heehee.)

Kevin Low is a clear-cut Fred/George Weasley, and I don't think many would disagree on that. It's the natural knack for fun, you know.

It would utmostly slapstick to liken Herrick aka. Demel to Demelza Robins, but I actually think he's much like the other Weasley twin, in correspondence to Kevin Low.

I would have to give the title of 'Draco Malfoy' to Michael Chee, for quite simple reasons, if you're in my class. Despite being an 'irritant', he still maintains a certain level of wit and maybe, charm (since Draco Malfoy is charming to people like Pansy Parkinson).

Judging mostly from the 6th book, as well as collectively from the previous 5 books, Eka Choong - with all due respect to you as a heterosexual male - is quite like Ginny Weasley. If you've read Half-Blood Prince, you'd know how attractive Ginny is to the opposite sex, and I think that needs to further elaboration. And of course, we also know that Ginny was a rather quiet character in the previous books, just as Eka was rather quiet (according to what Mrs. Molly Sng said) in Primary School.

Harry Potter is one of the hardest to liken to any of us Sec 2 GEPers, considering how unique, heroic and specially-crafted he is in the series. Some people say that David Crawshaw looks like Harry Potter, but I'd rather not go too far on that.

As for myself, that's a little tricky I would think. If you really asked me, though, I'd liken myself most to Luna Lovegood (and NO this does NOT mean that I'm gay). I just adore her knack for (often embarassing) shamelessness, her unconventionality, and the whole ethereality of her being. And her silvery eye colour gives a sense of mystical depth.

If not Luna, then Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort, easily my most favourite character in the series. His stunning capabilities make you either love him or hate him as a character, and given my liking for antagonists and anti-heroes, I find Voldemort quite a dark, mysterious character.

(And no, please don't say that Joshua Rene, Govind or Sidhant is Voldemort because of skin colour. Cough cough.)

Well, those are my personal thoughts about ACS-Potterworld parallels. Would like to hear your ACS(or whatever school you come from)-Potterworld parallels.

And no, before you start thinking of it, Dr. Ong is nowhere near being like Albus Dumbledore.

Edit: But come to think of it, Mrs. Fanny Tan is almost like a carbon copy of Prof. McGonagall. Wahahaha.