The Snape debate

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:
>
> Ok, I've been absent a while, but just trying to catch up on one
> or two things, starting with our man Snape. I went back and looked
> at how our discussions went, and below is a summary of the main
> posts.

"Oh no, not here *too*!" Jen sighed. She decided to do some 
reviewing to get away from conversations about Snape, only to 
discover her fellow cataloguers immersed in a conversation about 
Snape.  

Since no one seemed to be talking about his teaching style, the 
Pensieve scene or (gack) Occlumency lessons, Jen decided it's safe 
to post. "It's better than a whack on the head with a rusty poker," 
Jen thought, wondering tangentially if Mrs. Cole would have survived 
her job without massive amounts of liquor.

CW: 
> I quite like the idea of creating 'pro' and 'anti' buttons, to be 
> clicked in addition to whatever main topic we are placing a post 
> into. That way you would be able to pull up all the criticisms and 
> all the appreciative purring in one place, though they would be
> very  big categories probably.

Jen: Fine by me if it's in addition to the other categories.



CW:
> 1.Severus Snape – general character studies
> 2.Young Snape & MWPP
> 3.Who is Snape working for?
> 4.Snape & love
> 5.Vampire/bat/animagus!Snape 
> 6. Snape + Harry 
> 7. Snape + teaching style
> 8. Snape as a literary construct/character

Jen: Could 1 & 8 go together? Maybe we could call number 3 'Snape's 
loyalty'?

CW:
> TBAYS - I'm not in favour of having a separate Snape TBay section,
> as they should already be coded to TBAY anyway, and as you know,
> I'm in favour of finding them within specific topics, as a
> different kind of commentary but nevertheless alongside normal
> posts.

Jen: This one confused me. Does that mean we'll keep each separate 
TBAY acronym under the Snape heading as it is now or just fold them 
into each of the above categories? 


CW:
> Significant Scenes - I'm a bit concerned about this one in case it 
> doubles up on our various other significant scene sections, eg the 
> two Shrieking Shacks etc. However, do we think there are some 
> specifically-Snape scenes which don't yet have sub-sections of
> their own, and which could become sub-categories?

Jen: Somehow I think the Pensieve scene and Occlumency will end up 
with sections of their own under the 'significant scenes section' 
when we start coding OOTP. The tower as well. So I don't think there 
needs to be a section under Snape for these.