WW History/Lupin/drowning sorrows

[Debbie]

Debbie arrives in the catalogue office, carrying a large file folder 
of Neville notes and an interim report.  Despite the late hour, the 
staffers are all at their computer screens, frantically pruning the 
catalogue as the deadline approaches.  As she strides toward the 
Captain's desk, Debbie inadvertently steps, first on an empty bag of 
Doritos and then on some old Fritos, grinding them into the carpet.  
Looking closely, Debbie notices plastic glasses stashed on some of 
the bookshelves, still partially filled with stale butterbeer, and 
one untouched snifter with a ration of single-malt whisky.  'Damn!' 
notes Debbie, 'I missed another cataloguing happy hour.'

The Captain, however, is clutching her head in despair.  After 
suffering the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day, she is issuing new 
cataloguing orders:

 -  I vote that you put all 
> the posts (ESE! & good) under ESE!Lupin, and just the one post that 
> coined LYCANTHROPE under that head, in the same way we have treated 
> all the other theories. So there.

Can I get some clarification here?  We are *only* putting the post 
that coins the acronym in the acronym category?  I was just about to 
move the entire Reverse Memory Charm debate to its very own MATCHING 
ARMCHAIR.  Should I not do that?

Anyway, I have an interim Neville report.  After wading through way 
too many treacly PoorWoobie!Neville posts which made me wonder why I 
ever liked this character (except to spin theories involving him 
being tortured by every character under the sun), I now have less 
than 100 posts left.  Nothing exciting to report, except that if you 
click Teaching Methods or Child Abuse, chances are, you shouldn't be 
clicking Neville because the post is probably about Snape.  And it 
probably should be rejected because the thought has now been posted 
to the list approximately 17,845 times.  

My goal is to knock the original 560 down to 300.  I assume 300 posts 
is not enough to consider subcodes, but there are only about 4 topics 
in the entire collection (though post-OOP they will all be about the 
Prophecy):

Memory Charms (does he or doesn't he, if so what kind, and if not 
then what is ailing him)
Brave!Neville
Elkins
Responses to Elkins

When I'm done, I will tackle Equality and Fairness, if nobody 
objects.  This may be all I can handle before HBP, though the Captain 
will be pleased to hear that some of the meets have cancelled due to 
thunderstorms and rescheduled for *after* HBP is released. 

> Kneasy (on TOC):
If the worst comes to worst we have the technology,
> the imagination, the sheer brass neck to reconstruct the HP plot-
> lines into a BANGier format. Such a pity that we can't actually 
enter 
> the story a la Thursday Next and influence it from the inside.

'Who says we can't?  Any subversive can do it.'
> 
> 
> C - I will not go into the day I had today. Suffice it was 
Very,Very, 
> Very Bad, and that's saying quite a lot by the standards of the 
last 
> month or so. Tired, emotional, murderous and clutching some booze I 
> idly looked at HPfGU, only to find the effing Snape row had broken 
> out YET again, with all the SAME protagonists, complete with same 
> obligatory Admin warning. 

::offering chocolate::

Here's how I handle this:  I keep a gmail account and have all the 
posts sent there, where they are neatly sorted into threads.  Then, 
with just two clicks, I can delete an entire offending thread.  That 
way, when I look at HPFGU posts, I only see what I want to see.  I 
have many invites; if anyone wants one, just ask.

> In despair I turn to TOC, which, by contrast, constantly seems to 
be 
> threatening to break out in sickening pink hearts. But no, Canute-
> like, Kneasy stands firm to the end. What a hero. In gratitude, an 
> account should immediately be opened at Berry Bros...

A final question from an ignorant Yank:  what is Berry Bros?

And with that, Debbie rushes out the door to the catalogue office 
back to her cubbyhole and gets back to work (sadly, on the job that 
provides a paycheck)