Bloated Characters Was:Re: Choc.. and more choc, wow...

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2"
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
 
> Carolyn:
> It's ok, you can un-sign up you know...I have not signed up for more 
> myself until I finish Voldemort, which is a giant section with nearly 
> 2000 posts. Or I might pick off little sections to do in between 
> sorting it out, for light relief. And I will probably start doing 
> some coding too in between. I think they call it multi-tasking.
> 

Anne:
And I see Talisman has Snape while I'm doing Harry -- each of these
over 2000.  I thought it might be useful to compare strategies for
sorting these.  As my memory is very foggy generally, I have actually
been keeping lists of particular posts under specific headers (call
them proto-subcategories) such as "H & Dursleys," "H vs. LV," "Lily's
sac./Blood prot.," "Magical talent/training," etc., etc.  Every time a
new subject comes up, I add a new proto-category. I have notebook
paper spread all over as I do this, and I am putting every post
somewhere (including a reject cat., naturally).  The goal is to be
able to look at these at the end, or after "enough" posts have been
gone through, to be able to sythesize these into a reasonable number
of new subcategories plus a general Harry Potter one, each with
definitions.

So far, I have been able to list most posts under a discrete
proto-subcategory, with a few that would be cross-coded to two of
them.  It's still fairly early days yet, though, as far as how late
I've got to in HPfGU history, so I'm not sure if this will hold up.

Any thoughts?  Anything you two, Carolyn and Talisman, have come up
with that would be helpful?

Anne
not touching the time-turner subject, as I've officially retired from
that debate