[HP4GU-FAQ] Snape FAQ, new improved version

Porphyria porphyria at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 13 18:26:18 UTC 2002


I'm making more corrections and tweaks to the Snape FAQ as I go along. I 
have a bad habit of referring to the "Secret-Keeper" as the "Promise 
Keeper" <hangs head in shame>, not to mention my reprehensible knowledge 
of British geography <quitely thanks Eloise for catching an error>. Anyway,
  I came across an editorial issue regarding our shorthand that I thought I'
d submit to the group.

For starters, Prank. I've wound up standardizing the capitalization to 
"Prank" every time it's cited, since it's not just any prank (Canary 
Creams, e.g.), it's *The Prank* that's possibly one of the formative 
events of Snape's life. If people feel that capitalizing it is silly, 
needless and pretentious, I can change it all back to lower case with a 
simple search-and-replace, so let me know.

And that made me wonder about who the audience for this document is. If it'
s newbies, then I was wondering if we should include a glossary at the end 
for these terms:

DADA
DE
MWPP, Marauders
JKR
Prank
PS/SS, CoS, PoA, GoF
Trio

Or are these too obvious? Should a newbie be able to figure them out from 
context? Should we do first references like this: "Defense Against the 
Dark Arts (DADA)"? Then again, if people are clicking around individual 
questions willy-nilly, they might miss a first reference, and it's 
cumbersome to spell everything out every time. Let me know what you think.

Thanks, Porphyria





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