Psychological assessments

[Jen Reese]

I'm about halfway through this category and want to make sure I'm on 
the right track. My dilemma is characterization vs. psychological 
assessments. For example, a post looking at possible motivations for 
Snape to join the DE's including the Prank, interest in pureblood 
ideology promoted by LV, etc., I would classify under 
characterization.

If someone were to analyze what we think we know about Snape's 
childhood, emotional responses to the Marauders, underlying 
motivations such as jealousy--that I would classify as a 
psychological assessment.

The characterization category has about 20 posts in it, some I moved 
there from psych assessments. The psych assess category started out 
with 286. I think it's fair to say characterization is being 
underused and psych possibly overused (especially when you think of 
the many Sirius posts we have coming our way post-OOTP <bg>).

Please give me input! I want to get finished this week, but need to 
know if my understanding of these categories fits the group 
understanding.

Jen