Project thingummy/Definitions files/snipe-fests/auto re-numbering/kids/Lupin

[Jen Reese]

> Carolyn (sighing rather gloomily):
> I am pretty nervous about launching the catalogue unless every 
> category has been checked and cleaned up relatively recently - 
> particularly the very large ones (and yes, I am guilty of losing 
the 
> will to live on Voldemort, I will finish it).
<snipping>
> It's a tall order, to finish up to GOF, review all the sections 
*and* 
> hope that Paul and Tim get their stuff done by 16th July. Probably 
we 
> should moderate our expectations somewhat. I am chasing various 
> people offlist to see if we can get a bigger team on the project 
> again, but RL etc..

Jen: So, um....should we go back to reviewing then? Or are you 
saying, keep coding new posts but review at the same time? I think I 
can do both, especially once GOF is done and my review sections will 
be smaller.

I noticed there are quite a few smaller review categories still 
open. Some of the posts I made a unilateral decision about while 
reviewing GOF were posts on Crouch jr, Viktor/Fleur/Cedric, 
Good/Evil, mortality/immortality--all sections no one has chosen to 
review yet.

I guess the big question is, are people who took review categories 
working on them or would it be better to put them back in the pot 
for the rest of us to sort out? Anne is working on Harry for sure, 
and you'll finish Voldemort. You're contacting Talisman about Snape 
and Boyd about Dumbledore? Those were the biggies left if I remember 
correctly. And Ginger is taking on that snuggly bunny Lupin. ;) I'm 
signed up for characterization, so will do that next or maybe take a 
few smaller categories first.


> Carolyn: 
> Do you know, I can't remember for the life of me how I learnt to 
> spell. Since it was nearly half a century ago (OMG...) I suspect 
we 
> did it the traditional way by copying words off the blackboard. I 
> have no recall of a phonetic approach at all, but I can remember 
as 
> clear as day the moment I first learnt to read properly. I was 
about 
> 4 or 5 I think and standing at my teacher's desk, and suddenly it 
all 
> just clicked and I read a whole page to her. Had my nose in a book 
> ever since.

Jen: 4 or 5? Wow! I've heard about people like you. Even by today's 
standards where they expect kids to be reading by the end of Kinder, 
4-5 is pretty precocious. 

Carolyn:
> Hm, on the topic of children, as you may know I lead a sheltered 
life 
> (ie avoid 'em like the plague), but saw a friend recently who 
insists 
> on producing them at regular intervals, and joy, the eldest (now 
11) 
> said he'd read HP. Aha, I thought, a member of the target 
audience. 
> Enthusiastically I started questioning him what he thought of OOP, 
> hoping for juvenile insights into What It Was All About. He just 
> looked at me scathingly and said HP was *so* last year..and his 
> mother said they'd never bothered to buy OOP. Crushed or what.

Jen: Awww, too sad. I questioned a child recently who assured me 
he'd read the books. He opened the conversation by telling me the 
name of the new book was "The Half-Blood Prince." I asked him if he 
thought there was any chance Professor Lupin was the HBP, and he 
said, "who's Professor Lupin?" *Sigh* Well he was *7*, maybe his mom 
didn't actually get to POA yet. I hope.