From simon at hp.inbox.as  Mon Sep  3 20:29:47 2001
From: simon at hp.inbox.as (Simon)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:29:47 +0100
Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] FAQs: Further Updates; Maintenance
In-Reply-To: <3B680DF8.AFCE66AF@swbell.net>
Message-ID: <LOBBLGEGEBLNEOFHCDINEEIKDNAA.simon@hp.inbox.as>

I have been working on my FAQs for the last few days and was left wondering
(4300 messages read - 6000 to get up to date (of which about 1000 recent
ones I have hardly even skim read)). With this expected influx of elves in
the near future are we also going to ask if any of them would also like the
job of maintaining a FAQ (or more if they have major spare time)? 20-30
people doing one each would be much easier than 8 of us trying to do lots
each.

I have thought through my FAQs and have the following to say about
maintaining them.

Wands - for the couple of posts a century this gets I am happy to keep it.
Animals - it gets a small number of posts (most about Crookshanks) - I
would prefer to keep.

Dursley - it gets a small number of posts (most about Crookshanks) - I
would prefer to get rid of it.
Voldemort - would really like to pass this one on after my next update.

Harry - Want someone to take over this or the Weasley Family FAQ. I have
time to maintain one, but not both and will give up both if sufficient
people are available to help.
Weasley Family (excluding Ron) - Want someone to take over this or the
Harry FAQ. I have time to maintain one, but not both and will give up both
if sufficient people are available to help.

Predictions - Joke of the day - I have not been maintaining this at all. I
recommend killing it as almost all predictions stuff seems to end up in
what will happen to person X, thing Y, etc., in the future.


Simon


-----Original Message-----
From: Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer [mailto:pennylin at swbell.net]
Sent: 01 August 2001 15:11
To: HPFGU - FAQs
Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] FAQs: Further Updates; Maintenance


Hi everyone --

Some further things that need to be added/changed on the website Steve.

1.  Add in Peter Pettigrew (and Draco Malfoy (Malfoy Family) under
Characters.
2.  Remove Similarities between Potters & Voldemort
3.  Under World of HP, add "British Education System"; delete Houses of
Hogwarts as that is included under the Hogwarts FAQ

Then, just upload most recent version of Fanfiction & Weasley Family and
we'll be caught up at present.

I had some thoughts about FAQs maintenance this morning.  I know I do
not have the time to maintain all 9 of the FAQs that I wrote, and I'm
sure other FAQ'ers feel the same.  My thought would be to hand-choose
some people to approach about maintaining specific FAQs before opening
it up to the group as a whole for volunteers.  Here are my thoughts
about my own FAQs --

1.  JKR -- This one probably won't require much maintenance since it's
mainly biographical info on Jo, but I'd just as soon not worry with it
myself.  I have no real thoughts on who might be willing to
maintain/update this one now & again.  Thoughts?

2.  Hogwarts -- This will require fairly extensive updating and seems
likely to be one that will need to be monitored for facts given in JKR
chats & such.  I nominate Steve V to maintain this one if he's willing
(given that similar maintenance will be done on his Lexicon site on this
topic).  <g>

3.  Mysteries & Inconsistencies -- This is a big project!  I am
constantly shifting messages into my FAQs-Mysteries folder as people
discover more & more flints, mysteries, etc.  I nominate Joywitch, Amy Z
or David as potential candidates to keep up with this one.  Are you
game, Amy or shall I approach Joywitch?

4.  Potential Romance Pairings -- I'll keep this one.  I'm sure you're
all relieved (and shocked).  <g>

5.  Government -- Not much required so I don't mind keeping this one
too.

6.  Hermione -- I'm definitely keeping this one!!  Near & dear to my
heart ...

7.  Universal Appeal of HP -- I'll keep this one too as I am possibly
the only person who really cares much about it.

8.  Religion & HP -- Do I recall that Mike expressed an interest in
possibly maintaining/updating this one?

9.  Fanfiction -- I am not as involved in the fanfic world at present as
others are so I nominate Ebony, Heidi and/or Carole as candidates to
keep up with this one.  Thoughts ladies?  Any takers?

Neil, if I were you, I'd start buttering up Amanda for taking on
maintenance of that Snape FAQ.  <g>

Okay, that's it for now.

Penny



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From aiz24 at hotmail.com  Wed Sep 26 22:48:10 2001
From: aiz24 at hotmail.com (Amy Z)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:48:10 -0400
Subject: Fwd: FAQ references with an Nnumber
Message-ID: <F74d7cMjlc6WdQTpa60000094d4@hotmail.com>

Does anyone know the answer to Jo Ann's question?  I forget who did the J&L 
FAQ.

Ignorantly yours,
AZ

>From: "Jo Ann Cahn" <jcahn at worldnet.fr>
>Reply-To: jcahn at worldnet.fr
>To: hpforgrownups-owner at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: FAQ references with an Nnumber
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:31:41 +0100
>
>I have read the FAQ and I still have not figured out how to find the
>posts labeled N1530 (for example), cited in the James and Lily
>Potter FAQ. I have found the regularly-numbered ones, but was
>also wondering why some have direct links while others require
>inserting the number into the search form.
>
>Much thanks,
>
>
>Jo Ann Cahn
>Traduction et Relecture Scientifiques
>33 rue Raumur 75003 PARIS
>telephone 01 44 54 96 00
>telecopie 01 44 54 96 01
>e-mail    jacahn at cybercable.fr      jcahn at worldnet.fr
>


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From heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu  Thu Sep 27 11:45:46 2001
From: heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu (Tandy, Heidi)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:45:46 -0400
Subject: Fw: [HPforGrownups] genetics
Message-ID: <C8CB3DE988C8D3119BDA00A0C9B3BD4D022C2DD3@MIAEXCH1>

Can we just ask him to turn this into a faq, unto itself or to be
incorporated into another one.

-----Original Message-----
From: vheggie at yahoo.com <vheggie at yahoo.com>
To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu Sep 27 07:32:41 2001
Subject: [HPforGrownups] genetics

Real-To:  vheggie at yahoo.com

Heh, I knew my degree (in genetics) would come in handy one day.  I 
didn't imagine it would be to debate the genetics of wizarding 
ability however....

I won't cut and paste all the previous debates - I'm a bit late in 
joining in, so I'll just throw in my own 2 knuts:

It's unlikely that magic ability is a single-gene condition:
1) Assume it's a recessive allele so mm = wizard and MM & Mm = muggle.
In order for two wizards to produce a squib a spontaneous mutation 
must occur which 'knocks out' the action of one of the parental 
genes.  This sort of mutation is INCREDIBLY rare, compared to the 
rates of hereditary diseases (which are also relatively uncommon).  
Off-hand, we're talking about not much more than one in a hundred 
thousand people suffereing from a spontaneous mutation of this sort.  
Most wizards probably wouldn't even have heard of a 'squib', or be 
aware of the possibility of having a 'squib', if this were the case.

2) Assume dominance so MM & Mm = wizard and mm = muggle.  No muggle 
parents could ever have wizards, unless a spontaneous mutation 
occured - see argument above - it is also a lot more infrequent for a 
spontaneous mutation to give INCREASED function to an allele (ie it's 
harder to 'make it work differently' than to 'break it') - people 
like Hermione would be one-in-a-million occurances - I think we can 
see from the text that muggle born wizards are a lot more common than 
that.

The more genetics is studied, the more we realise that things are 
never as simple as they seem.  The majority of intellectual, 
emotional, and even physiological characteristics are not the product 
of single genes.
It's clear that some people can be 'more magical' than others; 
Neville, IIRC worries that he was "not magical enough".  This 
suggests a polygenic condition; in this case, it would be perfectly 
possible to have both wizards and muggles with a complex set of genes 
for magical ability, allowing wizard parents to have squibs (who, 
after all, may well be able to do SOME magic - we don't know), and 
muggles to have wizards.

I imagine it being like musical ability - it's all very well having 
perfect pitch, but if you've poor coordination skills and lack the 
ability to regulate your breathing, you're never going to become a 
great pianist, or solo singer.






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