Proposed New Harry Categories

carolynwhite2 carolynwhite2 at aol.com
Mon Jun 20 17:04:16 UTC 2005


--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:

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.

C - I think this is the way to go. For the time being, I would prefer 
to keep the acronyms showing under the new sub-headings, although we 
will have to get rid of them in the end in order to eliminate the 
level 5 heads. Probably, as you suggest, we should treat Harry like 
Snape (oh, the irony..LL will not like it) and give him his own 
section which may make this easier to handle. For now, the main thing 
is to decide on your sub-heads and start the sort out.

Anne:
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.

C - I am rather guilty here. I have recently come across many 
ludicrous time-turned Harry posts, and for want of a better heading, 
I have put them under BALDERDASH. However, they shouldn't be folded 
into the general Harry category: I think you need another sub-head - 
something like 'Harry time-turner theories', to group all this 
nonsense in one place. To my mind, the TT posts are rather different 
in type to the character analysis (eg is he boring, answer yes), 
which I imagine should be under the general head <ducks bricks with 
practiced ease>.

Anne:
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.

C - As I said, I think they should be shown as level 5 sub-heads for 
the time being, but arranged under their thematic head, ready for the 
chop when the job's done. I thought HIS SWORD had some legs - 
Merlin/Arthur legend syndrome; I think I have coded quite a bit there 
recently.

Re Stoned!Harry, and to answer an off-list query:

Anne:
I don't need to add an Alchemy/Rosicrucianism category to the
Stoned!Harry posts, do I?  I guess it would fit there, but it's
such a nice, discrete theory on its own, I hesitate to duplicate
coding like that.

C - no, if a post strays into both, we can code to both, but 
otherwise I'd like to keep alchemy/rosicrucianism separate, and a pen 
for Hans' madness.

Sean:
My suggestion would be to fold all the minor acronyms under an "Other 
Theories" subcat; and depending on how the final catalogue is 
formatted, people can investigate that subcategory at will. I suspect 
a great deal of Snape and Dumbledore needs to be dealt with in a 
similar way. There is, I agree, a great deal of clutter by obscure 
acronyms that could be better organized.

C - sorry, I fundamentally disagree. Anne's suggestion is far better. 
I don't want to see the words 'other' or 'general' anywhere in the 
catalogue if we can help it. It is much more useful to have a topic 
(eg Harry & time-turning), with acronyms folded into it if we so 
decide, than have a category 'Harry - other theories' and have no 
idea what is in it.

Carolyn
seconding everyone else's thanks for the time this has taken, and 
looking the Voldie section straight in the eye...






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