Parricide and other terms

eloiseherisson at aol.com eloiseherisson at aol.com
Sat Oct 5 12:02:20 UTC 2002


The trouble with any of these terms (and I have to agree with Porphyria, that 
parricide *is* technically the correct term for any of these killings, 
although particularly of parents) that they require someone coming along 
later to look throught the list of terms first, before deciding what to 
search for. I think I would more instinctively look for parricide than I 
would for something beginning with 'kin' and that we just have to explain any 
terms that might be open to misinterpretation, or have a wider application 
than at first appears.

(I'd just written a paragraph explaining why 'revenge' didn't seem right, 
which was leading into a nice theory about Sirius being Snape's father via 
use of a Time Turner, hence wanting to feed him to the Dementors out of 
revenge would be attempted parricide, but I seem to have got the wrong end of 
the stick along with Eileen!  :-) ! )

Perhaps we should eventually organise the list of terms thematically, as well 
as alphabetically, if it gets as large as it threatens to?

Someone mentioned they were keying JKR as Rowling (though it's not on the 
list yet). Which should we use? I vote for JKR.

Shipping (yet again). I see 'SHIP: Harry'; 'SHIP: Cho' on the list.
I'm still confused about how I should be doing this.

(LOONily)...Doesn't 'plagiarism' have an 'i' in it?

Eloise




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