report on spells and stuff.

[ewe2]

This was the spells potions incantations and animagi sections Kelly
couldn't finish. Apparently I never reported the work and haven't yet
put a Yes in the database, so let's do this properly:

According to correspondence Ginger left me with 3.8.4.4-3.8.4.6 but i
seem to have put my name down for the whole section of 3.8.4-3.8.4.16
and 3.8.5! Please confirm :) To be on the safe side I (re?)did 3.8.5
Animagus, and quickly overviewed some of the later Spell categories
which took all of 5 minutes since most only have 5-odd posts at this
stage.

I've lost my notes on half of the work I did here so Im going to busk
this one, although I do recall that sections 3.8.4-3.8.6 had little to
remove at all. I put this down to the specificity of discussions
involving spells and the fascinating theories thrown up by <insert
favourite polyjuice conundrum>.

3.8.4.4 164 posts
3.8.4.5 5 posts
3.8.4.6 14 posts

Priori Incantatum was the only biggie here, and a good deal concerned
the confusion caused by the Scholastic "difference", indeed the last
post to date (53179) is still dealing with it. The whole question of
wands becomes quite vexed as a result.

The Animagus posts are "lean back with a good wine and yummy cheese"
affairs, imaginations really ran riot here. First prize goes to
Catlady who mused upon the sexual possiblities of Animagi
transformation (10253 mrowww!), with a Mention in Despatches to
Tabouli who pointed out the Clothing Cop-Out of such transformations
(24979). Then there's the theory of Wizard Space to explain the
relative intelligence of transformed Wizards (36617).  If that wasn't
enough, tex23236 invoked zero-point energy(!) in 37293.

animagus 3.8.5 - 181 posts (no change)

I suppose I'll be Snaping now?

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