the boy in the flowerbed

[quigonginger]

Hi, all, 

I'm in the series of posts where everyone is discussing JKR's newest 
release that Book 5 would start with a boy lying in a flowerbed.  
There were a ton of posts speculating who and why, and quite frankly, 
I rejected all but one, which also included a nice summarization of 
the beginnings of the other books (Pippin, I think).  I coded that 
one to predictions for book 5, with canon (since she provided it).  

I thought the others were way too vague to clutter up the predictions 
category, especially since we now know that it was Harry and why he 
was there.  

Any thoughts on this?  We are coming up on the time when speculation 
will be running rampant, and I think we need to define (or at least 
come to some general agreement) on what is a prediction and should be 
coded and what is to be rejected.  What do you all think?

BTW, I've had a huge reject rate on the last couple of sets.  There 
was a shipping thread that went on forever, and, as I reviewed that 
category, I know it is all in there.  I kept a few that were well-
written and all-encompassing.  Or at least encompassed all for that 
particular ship.  

I also rejected a lot of "who owns the Riddle house" posts, but I ran 
into a concern there.  There were a few that I wanted to code, but 
only found the Riddle house under Geography.  The description in the 
heading said only to code about location, not about what happened 
there, but I checked and found that of the 12 posts in that category, 
most were about who owned the Riddle house, so I went and added my 2 
or 3 more to that.  Should I have done that?  Or is there a better 
way?

Sorry about the lack of alcohol, Carolyn, I didn't think to stop at 
the 3 Broomsticks, but I'll pick some up next time I'm in the Hog's 
Head.  In the mean time, check Kneasy's bottom left-hand desk 
drawer.  You didn't hear that from me.

Ginger, off to code more.