How About Progress Reports? & Harry FP, Again

[serenadust]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com, "abigailnus" <abigailnus at y...> 
wrote:

> I think this a chicken and egg situation.  You probably saw on the 
list that I 
> recently joined up as a list elf, and one of the reasons that I 
chose to accept 
> the task was the silence on this group, which had already been 
going on for 
> two weeks.  It's true that many of the new elves are also members 
of FAQ, but 
> our duties at this point are light, and I don't think that they 
preclude working 
> on FPs.  
> 
> So, let me first give a shout-out to anyone who might be reading 
this message.  
> Are you out there?  Did you even notice that the FAQ list went 
dark for a few 
> hours earlier this week?  Are you still interested in writing 
FPs?  Just respond to 
> this post with a Yes or No.  Please.


::Waving::

I'm here and I'd like to get going on the Weasley family FP.  It's 
just that, well, I don't really know what to do yet and was hoping 
for some direction on how to proceed from more experienced members.  
I've gone through the old FP and it doesn't seem to refer to many 
HPfGU posts/theories so I'm rather confused.  Are the FPs on a 
particular character or group of characters (Weasleys in my case) 
supposed to incorporate *all* the major impressions concerning them 
that have ever been brought up on the lists?  That was what I 
thought they were for, but some of them just seem to be essays by a 
single writer who, though they mention alternate ideas, really are 
just writing their own thoughts on the character(s) based on their 
own reading of the books.

At any rate, there seem to be a variety of takes on the approach to 
FPs and I'm not sure if there even is a *right* way to proceed.  
I'll send an off-list note to Eileen in case she's not reading the 
list at the moment, and see what her ideas are.

Thanks for kick-starting the discussion, Abigail and Cindy, and BTW 
I agree with Debbie on the color scheme eyestrain issue.

Jo Serenadust, geezer