Ages and New beginning

[potioncat]

"More whisky?" Potioncat just shook her head. That's the last thing 
Miss Havisham needed. What she needed was a report, an idea...numbers 
to change in the catalogue, new  headings to enter!

Potioncat went to work re-reviewing, but saw Miss begin to stir.  Not 
entirely finished, but not wanting to waste the moment, Potioncat 
stood up, grabbed a handful of confetti (from her well stocked party 
supply drawer) and tossed the colorful bits of paper into the air.

"Wheee!" She certainly had everyone's attention.

"Yes, well, as for calculating Characters' Ages...

Hardly any post about someone's age is only about one character. If 
we slip "calculating ages" under a character's name, many of these 
posts would need multiple codes.

If we kept the 1.2.12 as the main code, we could create new codes 
under it for the usual suspects. Then rather than having a code for 
Lily Potter's age, we could have a code for the Marauders' Generation 
(Marauders, Snape, Lily, Barty Crouch,Jr., Regulus, Florence, Bertha, 
Dursleys...did I miss anyone?) And any age post about any of them 
would go there. We would not need to code to character name, unless 
the post also concerned some other aspect of the character.

Hermione has about 16 posts; some refer to the other current students 
as well. Although most are about that incredibly stupid debate on 
whether she's older or younger than Harry....(Oops, did I say that 
out loud?) Neville also has a couple of posts about his birth year. 
Cedric and Angelina come up within Hermione's posts. I think a 
heading to cover all students would more than meet that need. It 
would also keep from multi-coding posts. 

Several posts compare DD&MMc, DD&Riddle, MMc&Riddle&Hagrid, Mr.&Mrs. 
Weasley with Hagrid or with Lucius. The Weasleys are tough because a 
great deal of them fall under Weasley age gaps but some fall into the 
Hagrid/Lucius calculations. We have scattered posts for Flamel and 
Hooch, Fudge, that sort of thing.

So, here is my recommendation:
1.2.12 Calculating Characters' Ages no posts go here.
1.2.12.1 Weasley ages (to include all Weasleys) renamed from Weasley 
Age Gap it would have more than 40 posts.
1.2.12.2 Students' Ages (to include those characters who are students 
during Harry's time, except for Weasleys. This would include Viktor, 
Flint, etc...should they come up. More than 20.

There are about 20 or so posts left. We could make it 1.2.12.3 
Adults' Ages. Or there could be one for the Marauder Generation and 
one for older wizards. At the moment, I vote for one heading only. 
This leaves the only tricky one that sometimes Molly and Arhtur fit 
in adults and sometimes in Weasley. My feeling is, depending on the 
post it might go either way but not to both. 

When someone does the next big review, if the numbers have grown too 
cumbersome, codes can be reworked.I am assuming here, that the only 
use of 1.2.12 was ages and I was sort of guessing at the numbers. 
Weasley age gap was 1.2.12.1, not 1.2.11 wasn't it? If I go back to 
check now, this page will vanish.

So, what do you think?

Potioncat looked around. She didn't need magic to know what everyone 
was thinking. Everyone else was glad Miss Havisham wasn't looking at 
them.