Review of Freewill, Prophecies & Seers

[Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}]

A manic figure darts into Her Majesty's office, muttering under his breath.
"...choices...obvious...Ron...ridiculous..."

Miss Havisham glares up from behind her stacks of posts and declares, "Mr.
Smythe, I presume? I had assumed you lost in the sea of predestination and
prophecies. It has been quite a while. Perhaps you should have stayed..."

Boyd tosses a few neat bundles on her desk. "I am done with these
atrocities, ma'am. Dreadfully hideous beasts they were, too, but they
succumbed to my sharpest red pen just like their vile prediction brethren
before them."

Stunned at his resilience, she spat, "And your boogie shoes? Are they not
yet broken?"

With an ear-to-ear grin, he turned on his iPod and began dancing with
reckless abandon, knocking over several piles of unmarked posts and sending
herself into a complete and utter tizzy.

"Damn you, Smythe, you will pay for that! If you think those were bad, now
you shall review all of Dumbledore! Ha ha ha ha ...." Her voice faded as he
shimmied his way out her door, posting this note as he left.

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1.1.3 ****Freewill, choice & fate
This lot was scary. There are now 219 (I believe there were about 400 when I
started).

In general, please reject the discussions that have obviously occurred
before, unless there are new takes on them. Examples of oft-repeated topics
include freewill for various races (esp. house elves), fate/destiny for
Harry and/or Voldemort, Dumbledore's famous line regarding choices, and time
travel (esp. the PoA episode).

1.1.3.1 ******Prophecy discussions
Just 79 of these left, down from 141. Lots of repetition here, given the
great speculation early on about what Trelawney's first prophecy must have
been regarding. Again, please reject very short posts that make obvious
statements about prophecies. Also, please code to freewill anything that
discusses how prophecies subvert choices/free will.

1.1.3.2 ******Seers
Down to 57 from a whopping 56, but 12 have been added during the past week
(wow, that's some fast coding!) If a post is about Ron-as-seer, please
reject it unless it offers fairly significant rationale for or against. And
if a post mentions seers, that's not enough to get coded there; it must
genuinely discuss them. Other than that, this section was very clean!

--boyd, now moving on to Dumbledore's Boogie Wonderland (hmmm...now that I
think of it, it's obvious: Earth Wind & Fire were clearly visitors from the
WW--just look at the clothes!)