There is also the Friday Five:
1. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to do, but never have?
Visit New York. That’s one. Am I only allowed one?
2. When someone asks your opinion about a new haircut/outfit/etc, are you always honest?
Are you mad? Obviously not! I try not to actually lie as such, mostly because I’m terrible at it so it wouldn’t be very effective. I say something nice if there is anything nice to say and try to change the subject if there isn’t.
3. Have you ever found out something about a friend and then wished you hadn’t? What happened?
Not that I can remember. I can’t quite see what that would be, either, I mean, surely it would be more rational to wish that whatever you found out wasn’t true rather than that you didn’t know? Say you found out that your friend was cheating on his/her spouse – wouldn’t you just wish that it wasn’t true/that they’d stop/that they’d come clean rather than that you hadn’t found out? I don’t believe in the “what you don’t know can’t hurt you” tenet. Though in my example I suppose I would wish there was nothing I could do, rather than the between a rock and a hard place situation you would find yourself in (do you tell your friend off and threaten to tell their partner if they don’t do so themselves? How on earth would you tell the partner? Is there such a thing as a tactful way?) and start talking in iambic pantameter couplets: “The time is out of joint, oh cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right” (No, I didn’t just make that up – it’s Hamlet).
4. If you could live in any fictional world (from a book/movie/game/etc.) which would it be and why?
I’d like to go to have gone to Hogwarts. As Jane pointed out, it would have been useful to know how to apparate. It would also solve an everyday irritation: The phone rings, I get up, answer it, talk for a while, go to sit down again. I realise I’ve left my book over by the phone. I mentally point my wand at it (I haven’t actually got a wand, you know, hence the “mentally”) and say: “Accio book.” It hasn’t worked yet (and I’d probably be quite worried if it did), but if I could live in that fictional world it would. Of course, I’d also have to worry about Voldemort and all that, but life, at least, would be interesting.
5. What’s one talent/skill you don’t have but always wanted?
I would have liked to have a voice to go with my ability to remember song lyrics.