Loos & Predictions

[Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}]

Kelly wrote:
> Having just started the Bathrooms & loos subcategory, I've already
> encountered quite a few posts suggesting that either the prefect's
> bathroom or the chamber pot room might be the favorite room JKR
> mentions in her interview.  They're coded in all sorts of ways,
> usually with some combination or permutation of 3.16.1.1 Bathrooms &
> loos, 1.12.2.2 Predictions/no canon, and 3.16.1.2 Room of 
Requirement.
>  I assume I'll start finding these all over this category, so I
> thought I should get some opinions on how to handle them.
> 
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> Any thoughts?

Those are classic predictions--still amazes me how many folks caught on to
that minute hint. As to whether you'd like to keep them in Bathrooms & Loos,
I simply ask whether they provide any analysis of Bathrooms & Loos, or
whether they are mere predictions. I encourage you to chop many of the
latter--I'm keeping the first ones in Predictions for posterity.

As for the whole canon vs. no canon distinction, I've gone through a few
rounds on this. At first it sounded great, but after reading the hundredth
post like "I'll bet that chamber-pot room will be something special," I
began to wonder whether we're splitting hairs. So much grey area, since most
of the predictions are based on some scrap of canon.

So now I think of it as a future Catalogue-user. I'd want to be able to look
for either entertaining predictions or predictions with explicitly stated
logic. If the former, I'd want to see only the *most* entertaining ones
(meaning I still have to cut some more); if the latter, I'd want to see only
the well-supported ones (whether accurate or not).

Back to Bathrooms & Loos, that'd mean I'd keep only the first few (coded to
both Predictions no canon and Bathrooms) and the few that supported
themselves the best with canon/logic (coded to Prediction with canon and
Bathrooms). Since we reject me-toos, kill the rest. :)

--boyd
and I just *had* to ask for predictions