Proposed New Harry Categories

[annemehr]

Anne, last night:
> 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 now:
Argh! I made a mistake -- in the very first example, the general Harry
category was level 3, the same as it is now, with *all* the
subcategories level 4.  Without the dotted lines and inserted
definitions, it would look like this:

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
2.5.1.4 Character Traits/Maturation
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
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
2.5.1.17 HIS SWORD
2.5.1.18 Versus LV & DEs
2.5.1.19 HELP & LACERATE
2.5.1.20 TIME TURNER

> Anne, last night:
> Of the acronyms, BALDERDASH contains the most<snip>
> 
> 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: 
First of all, lacking any loose bricks, I give you :P :P :P!!!

Now, re a time-turner sub-head, well, there were many, many subheads I
considered, which is why I'm in the state I'm in today.  For instance,
I considered one for the Dursleys, to gather all those together.  I
ran into trouble, though, as many of them strayed into Character
Traits/Maturation, while others had more to do with Protection, esp.
3.5.4 Blood Prot. at P.D./Lily's Sacrifice.  Lots of my specific
categories showed that sort of tendency, which is why I ended up with
fewer, larger ones.  Those posts under BALDERDASH would seem to fit,
and be coded to, the Versus LV/DEs category, while on the other hand,
PoA time-turner ones might go under Training, Powers, Protections. 
But we could put BALDERDASH with TIME TURNER and add a Time-Turning
category as well.

I don't think it matters whether you stick posts into a related
acronym where they don't really belong, or just code them to Harry
Potter -- I have to read and move them anyway once we decide what our
new categories are going to be (so no-one worry that they didn't do
what Carolyn did; I'll catch them all anyway).

Anne, last night: 
> 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.

Anne now:
Must have been *very* recently, as it only had three posts late last
night, my time. <_<

Okay, finally--------
If I understand you, you actually do want to give Harry his own
category with sub-heads and sub-sub-heads?  In that case, I'll type it
all out the way it might look so people can see it:

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
2.5.2.1 ASTONISHED
2.5.2.2 CHIMPANZEE
2.5.2.3 PASHMINAS
2.5.3 Training, Protection, Powers
2.5.3.1 Harry's Eyes
2.5.3.2 Harry's Scar
2.5.3.3 Harry's Dreams
2.5.3.4 Stoned!Harry
2.5.3.5 PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
2.5.3.6 DRIBBLE
2.5.4 Parentage/Ancestry
2.5.4.1 HIS SWORD
2.5.5 Versus LV & DEs
2.5.5.1 BALDERDASH
2.5.5.2 HELP & LACERATE
2.5.5.3 TIME TURNER
2.5.5.4 Time-turner theories


This is how it looks going only to level 4; really it would look much
the same going to level 5, it just puts off the work of rearranging
the other character codes until later.  Which one you do depends on
whether you think you'll need the most specific subheads in the end or
not -- maybe *in the end* Harry won't actually need his own category
apart from other Gryffindors.

Incidentally, as it stands I do have posts sorted under the Harry
Potter category, as a general category.  There always seem to be
things that don't quite fit anywhere else and would clog up the other
categories.  If you like, I can re-review and try to get rid of those,
but it might entail coming up with another subcategory or two.  I can
look at it tonight if you like, or are you satisfied with it the way
it is?  Note that the first four acronyms are also sorted under that
general heading.

~Anne