[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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