[HP4GU-FAQ] Snape FP

[Porphyria]

Gwen wrote:

> I was wondering whether someone was going to ask about
> the organization...

Clearly, this should have been done a lot earlier. I spent until 5am 
Tuesday night getting this organized for its debut. I think that the 
advantage of having *some* organization is that people (who aren't 
entirely stupid) can scan the TOC for their topic without needing the most 
frequent to be the very top.

> My thought in putting the Task and the Lily questions
> first is that those seem overwhelmingly to be the Big
> Questions.

And they are still both very near the top.

> At first I thought that Past, Present, Future made
> sense--but then I thought that I wanted to suggest we
> move "Snape's Task" to the future.

I don't understand why. As far as we know, Snape's Task took place during 
the last week of GoF (spying or not) and is perhaps even over and done 
with. If the thing concerned something that happened during the four books,
  I put it in present (even though as with the Sirius/Map discussion of 
course it overlapped with the past).

If you think I'm giving too much prejudice to the Spying theory, I can 
change the header above it to "Current Enigmas" or "Popular Enigmas" or 
something without spying in it.

Naturally no matter what we do, there will be overlap and some people will 
have to (gasp) scroll half a page to find what they want. It's much better 
than what it was.

Gwen suggests:

> How about we look at it in terms of meta-questions and
> minor questions? What I mean is, Task, Lily, Vampire,
> Teaching, and comparison to the Marauders (or Prank)
> seem to be the major focal points in one way or
> another for any Snape-related question. What about
> organizing around those aspects?
>
> Like this?
>
> Snape the Spy:
> Task
> Voldemort's suspicion (inc. Quirrell)
> Voldmort's trust
> Join DE's
> Leave DE's
> Sudden Movement
>
> Snape the Man:
> Lily
> Love
> Vampire/other
> Will he die?
>
> Snape the Teacher:
> Why Teach
> Why HoH
> Good Teacher
> DADA
> Harry/Gryffs (no, these are NOT ship /'s)
> Draco/Lucius
>
> Snape the Student:
> Prank
> Shrieking Shack
> Marauders Map
> Sirius vs. Snape
> Sirius questions (Animagus and innocence)

This can work. I'd like to hear what others think too, since it takes me a 
while to cut-and-paste this stuff around and I don't have time before it 
goes live.

Ah, Cindy has just posted to this effect. Yes, we will consider another 
organization, but I'd like to ponder it and get feedback from any others 
of you with opinions since this won't take effect immediately.

> I may just be missing it on a quick skim, but
> somewhere along the way, did we lose the discussion
> about the look exchanged between Harry and Snape at
> the end of GoF?

You never asked that that be put in the regular discussion, and we never 
really culled posts about it from the excerpts. There is a paragraph (that 
you wrote) about it under miscellaneous.

We could move it at some point, but we don't have an expanded discussion 
or link number or anything.

Amanda sent me some great supplementary material on Snape as Harry's 
father figure. Tell you what, when I get some time to do a revision (which 
might be after we're done cataloguing) I can put in a whole section on 
Snape's relationship with Harry and cover both. Then we'll have to change 
the TOC again. :-)

JustGladItGoesLiveTodayAlready!Porphyria


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