Seventh Son stuff

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, ewe2 <ewe2 at 4...> wrote:
> 
> I think KITCHEN SINK was an earlier version of MAGIC DISHWASHER. At 
least the
> TBAYers at this point were still using Dishwasher!Dumbledore w/o 
the MAGIC
> part. And what happened to TBAY? Was Hurricane Jo so destructive 
that it was
> simply given up? Or were the major players bored with it? May I 
point out
> parenthetically that I never disliked TBAY as much as regarded it 
as a world
> unto itself. Even now when I understand more about its inner 
workings, I still
> think it was an unusual private game played out in public, and not 
necessarily
> as authoritative as some people appear to think.
> 

KITCHEN SINK was/is nothing of the sort. It isn't even really a 
theory. There was an anti-MD Snape theory called PRESSURE COOKER 
dreamt up by the Faith contingent some time after SPYING GAME I & II 
were published, and someone (Eloise I think) said jokingly one point 
that they now had everything but the kitchen sink. This is an 
apposite Brit colloquialism meaning 'everything but the rubbish, the 
dregs'.

Sean, please note the post numbers we have now got to - we are 
already into second-round arguments about MD. If MD is referred to, 
the reference is to the whole theory, from post 39662 onwards. The 
actual MD acronym was not coined until post 39751 - see Grey Wolf's 
post 39854 for an explanation. The reference to mysterious agenda's 
in the acronym are Dumbledore's and Voldie's, you can't separate that 
bit out.

And I think you are missing the point about TBAY completely. It is 
(IMO) a fascinating **style** that some people adopted to try and 
explain their theories. In as far as it advanced particular theories, 
it is as valid as any other style of posting. 'Authoritative' is 
completely the wrong adjective to use about it; no post on this 
ridiculous list is 'authoritative' about anything!

There are still quite a lot of the original TBAYers around the list 
(eg Pippin) but it's not a game worth playing unless a group wants to 
join in. Like most other interesting aspects of HPfGU it's been 
driven off the board by the terminally brain dead. There never were 
any barriers to joining in, apart from making the effort to 
understand and read, and experiment. Sure, there are lots of in-
jokes, but is that a crime? It's what happens when people get to know 
each other on and offlist. So what? Why does everything always have 
to be plain vanilla, understandable by the dullest wits in the 
universe...

Carolyn
..getting heated, and eyeing up that length of rope.