Character's ages (again)/Hogwarts/Chess/Elkins

[carolynwhite2]

KathyW:
> Now, as I understand it, Carolyn, I'll tell you when I'm done and 
> you'll make 1.2.12 go away on all remaining posts. Is that correct? 

I'm done. 1.2.12 can be removed from any remaining posts.

1.2.12.1 Weasley ages: 48
1.2.12.2 Students' ages: 18
1.2.12.3 Adults ages: 34

Carolyn:
Ah..I didn't realise we would be left with so many posts in 1.2.12. I 
am going to ask Paul to automatically remove the category from those, 
then make a decision where the sub-heads should live.

If I renumber on the category list, all our database files will need 
to be altered too ...

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Kelly:
3.16.3 Admission Process & overall school population
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Now, the main category. This one definitely needs to be split into 
two categories: 1) School population, and 2) Admission process.

Carolyn:
So, shall I create a new heading so that these categories now read:

3.16.3 Admission process
3.16.3.1 Funding & tuition fees
3.16.3.2 Overall school population

Well done for finishing this horror !

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Kelly:
Finally , there was a small group of posts in the original category 
discussing the page in JKR's notebook where she had listed all the 
students names with some symbols. The thread basically discussed 
which symbols went with who and what they might mean. I wasn't sure 
they really belonged here (in either of the new categories), but I 
wasn't quite sure where they should go. Any suggestions?

Carolyn:
Perhaps they really belong with 3.16.4 Sorting process, since they 
are largely guesses about which student belongs where?

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KathyW:
Post 47981 discussed the characters as chessmen. I coded it to 1.2.13 
symbolism. There was another chess piece there.

Post 47991, (T-BAY) mentioned WEBCRAWLERS which is about Winky and 
Crouch. I couldn't find it on the scroll, but doubt it's a frequently 
discussed topic. I coded the post to Crouches and to Winky.

Carolyn:
I tend to put all chess discussions under 3.14.1 Wizard chess, 
including discussions of the McGonagall chess set from PS/SS (cross-
ref to chapter as well). I figured it would be useful to have all the 
chess references together in some place for people such as the 
valiant hopefuls who put up that great knight2king4 site (or whatever 
it was called - KathySnow, you put me on to it in one of your 
posts..pity it's discredited already, but nothing ventured etc!).

If WEBCRAWLERS develops legs (he he)..let me know and I'll add a 
category for it.

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KathyW:
"It is for today! Nine, count them, nine Elkins T-Bay posts. 

"They know what I mean, I think this thread goes on for a while. 
Torture, painful deaths, ghosts, angst..." Potioncat sees that some 
of the staff have eager looks on their faces and she thinks she heard 
the upstairs door creak. "

Miss Havisham takes a look and smiles happily, to quote the blessed 
Elks:

'All of these posts are long. They are eccentric. They are
personal. They are digressive. They are Turbo-TBAYed. And much of
them were written long-hand in a yellow pad while I was sick in 
bedand running a very high temperature.

So. You have been warned.'

Miss H listened in disbelief as Potioncat blithered on:

"I did my best. I stuck it out. I even sent a note to Alla to tell 
her about the string of Elkins' posts. She does such a good job of 
starting up new discussions of it. But then, when I was finally out 
of the T-BAY...someone compared Severus Snape to...to...to Daffy 
Duck!"

You sent them to Alla? <splutter>... it was probably her that wrote 
the Daffy Duck post. Alarming as it may seem, she was actually around 
at the same time, and appears to have taken in absolutely nothing 
either then or since.

The only possible benefit is the rather Elkins-like BetsyHorridporrid 
leaping upon them, she's fun I think [thanks Magda for the heads up 
to look at her stuff].

>Ginger pauses, smiles at the assembled, and from behind her back, 
brings out a sack of assorted goodies.  

>Share amongst yourselves.

Carolyn (hopefully):

Anything alcoholic? I think I need something soothing..