Chapter summaries

[carolynwhite2]

Jen:
I finished reviewing PS chapter coding and am about halfway through
COS. I think I've done enough to make a proposal for future coding:

<snip discussion>


Carolyn:
My two sickles is that the discussion of big events should stay coded 
to the relevant chapters. For instance, so much of Magic Dishwasher 
turns of the interpretation of the POA Shrieking Shack scene and the 
rebirth scene in GOF. In a way, I think it will be quite interesting 
to read through all this on a chapter basis, because the date order 
in which the posts come will give succeeding layers of interpretation 
some further meaning.

It is very noticeable how the interest in the Shrieking Shack scene 
revvs up from posts 30000 etc onwards, compared to the early 
discussions of it.

On the discussion of the smaller incidents, it is difficult to have 
one rule to fit them all. My definition as I have coded to chapter is 
if there was no other useful place to put it. Eg, discussions of the 
valentine in CoS - who sent it & why. Whilst that can be cross-coded 
to the various characters involved, in essence it is discussing an 
incident in Chapter 13. However, your JFF example should most 
probably go to the character, as you suggest.

On incidents which have been wrongly coded to a chapter - then, of 
course, correct them (I do try and look up whenever I am not sure!). 
She has the bit-part-publishing habit of leaving an event hanging at 
the end of one chapter so as you dive into the next to find out what 
happens..

As mentioned in the round up on Sunday, any general reviews of a book 
as a whole should go in the sub-category I have created for them - 
really useful to read through in one go, I thought. I found it really 
annoying not to be able to find these sort of posts when I first 
joined HPfGU.

The next thing is the chapter summaries and the questions related to 
them. Obviously, the headline summary should go to the chapter code, 
but then my rule of thumb has been to code reponses on a diminishing 
returns basis - ie, once they start to wander off into separate sub-
threads rather than stay answering all the questions, I stopped 
coding to chapter.