Proposed New Harry Categories

[annemehr]

Okay, I think I have a handle on what categories we need, but I am
very much open to suggestions here (dang indecisiveness).  I can't
give you totals because I haven't gone through all the 2000-odd posts,
but I can tell you there's much pruning to be done.


To begin with, I sorted Harry's subcodes into new categories like this:

2.5.1 Harry Potter
 <for general posts about Harry>
2.5.1.0 ANOTHER HARRY
2.5.1.1 BIC LIGHTER
2.5.1.2 HARD SHIPWRECK
2.5.1.3 SHARK ATTACK
..........................
2.5.1.4 Character Traits/Maturation 
 <faults, virtues, attitudes, relating to people, etc.>
2.5.1.5 ASTONISHED
2.5.1.6 BALDERDASH
2.5.1.7 CHIMPANZEE
2.5.1.8 PASHMINAS
..........................
2.5.1.9 Training, Protection, Powers
 <Don't code here if 3.5.4 Blood Protection at Privet Drive/Lily's
Sacrifice, or 1.2.8.1 Godric's Hollow/Death of Lily & James works
better. For his magical abilities/attributes, incl. protections acquired.>
2.5.1.10 Harry's Eyes
2.5.1.11 Harry's Scar
2.5.1.12 Harry's Dreams
2.5.1.13 Stoned!Harry
2.5.1.14 PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
2.5.1.15 DRIBBLE
..........................
2.5.1.16 Parentage/Ancestry
 <For posts about known and unknown forebears>
2.5.1.17 HIS SWORD
..........................
2.5.1.18 Versus LV & DEs
 <For direct confrontations with Voldy, with DEs under his orders, and
for speculation of what The End might involve. May want to add a code
under here for the Prophecy.>
2.5.1.19 HELP & LACERATE
2.5.1.20 TIME TURNER


The categories are grouped together by theme, separated by the dotted
lines.  So, for example, "Harry's Eyes" and "PHILOSOPHER'S STONE" both
have to do with "Training, Protection, Powers."  However, only the
general "Harry Potter" category is a level 4; all the following
categories are level 5.

Of the acronyms, BALDERDASH contains the most -- 10 posts, but one is
a duplicate.  The category consists of a thread about whether Harry
time-turns back to his infancy.  Very little of the thread
specifically has to do with "Boy As Lord Denies Every Reasonable
Determination About Scrupulous Harry" -- that LV cannot be Harry
timeturned, because Harry's nice and LV isn't.  I suggest folding it
all into the Harry category.

Four have yet to be coded to:
BIC LIGHTER
ANOTHER HARRY 
TIME TURNER
DRIBBLE

Three are orphan acronyms, coined and then forgotten, whose posts
would not otherwise have been coded to Harry on their merits:
CHIMPANZEE
ASTONISHED
HELP & LACERATE

The others have up to three worthy posts, but really could be folded
into their respective thematic categories:
HARD SHIPWRECK (2 posts, begins at 37528)
HIS SWORD (3 so far, begins at 57978)
SHARK ATTACK (1 post at 37540)
PASHMINAS (1 post at 47124 -- recall other mentions in passing, but
not much debate)
PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (2 posts, begins at 38604)

None of Harry's acronyms really have legs; his only ongoing named
theory is Stoned!Harry.

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CONCLUSIONS:

If we are keeping the acronyms, I suggest that we might want to treat
Harry Potter the same as the Snape category, i.e. have:

2.5 Gryffindor Students (Harry Only)
2.5.1 Harry Potter
2.5.1.0 ANOTHER HARRY
2.5.1.1 BIC LIGHTER
2.5.1.2 HARD SHIPWRECK
2.5.1.3 SHARK ATTACK
2.5.2 Character Traits/Maturation
2.5.2.0 ASTONISHED
2.5.2.1 BALDERDASH
2.5.2.2 CHIMPANZEE
[...]
etc., in order to sort them all into subcategories indicated by the
rows of dots way up at the beginning of my post.

This way, if we do take them out later, it won't disrupt too much of
the numbering system (it will disrupt it quite a bit to make this
change now, though -- we'd have to renumber *all* the following
character categories if Harry takes the 2.5s all to himself).




On the other hand, if we get rid of the acronyms, we can group the
categories thematically like this:

2.5.1 Harry Potter
2.5.1.0 Character Traits/Maturation
2.5.1.1 Parents/Ancestry
2.5.1.2 Versus LV & DEs
2.5.1.3 Training, Powers, Protections
2.5.1.4 Harry's Eyes (22 posts)
2.5.1.5 Harry's Scar (44)
2.5.1.6 Harry's Dreams (43)
2.5.1.7 Stoned!Harry (48)

This way I think is much easier to view, and it will be quite easy to,
say, add 2.5.1.8 The Prophecy, or any other new category that we might
need.  In this grouping, everything from 2.5.1.4 on down can be
considered as subcategories of 2.5.1.3, but we aren't coding down to
fifth level, and I think it's still clear enough.

Otherwise, we could compromise, and number new categories as I have at
the top of the post, keeping all the acronyms, but 20 subcategories in
a line just looks really bloated to me.

What do people think?  Do you think you could code to these?  Do you
think they need to be readjusted?  Which organisation style is best?

Anne,
the hair on whose head looks like Vernon Dursley's moustache on a bad day