James and Lily categories, final statistics

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Sorry that this has been a long time coming! I never posted my final 
findings on James and Lily, so without further ado:


LILY  2.2.8

519 posts initially, now 242

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2.2.8.1 FOUL SLAVERY

(Females Offer Unlimited Levity: Save Lily And Voldemort Eagerly 
Rewards You!)

One post in this category that could be blended into 2.2.8.2

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2.2.8.2 Too EWW & variants
(not really an acronym)

Inish Alley does not carry a simplified definition of the theory so 
I'll try to sum it up

This acronym was somewhat spawned from the Lollipops theory and grew 
to various degrees of EWW. The TEWW EWW starts off with Voldemort 
rewarding Snape by killing James and Harry and placing Lily under 
Imperious. The acronym evolves to the Even EWWWer theory that 
Voldemort wanted Lily for himself for strategic purposes that 
involved Lily bearing his son. But the worst-case scenario was 
Voldemort saving Lily for himself for lustful purposes, which was 
aptly named sooo EWWer its in the SEWERrrrrrr. 

22 posts initially now 15 due to mere mention of the acronym

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2.2.8.3 MAKE ME BARF

(Lily was spared for Pettigrew
"Monstrous Activity: Keeping Evil Men Entertained By Allocating 
Rescued Females")


This category only has 2 posts both of which could also be melted 
into 2.2.8.2 or Peter-Gets-The-Girl 

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2.2.8.4 AGGIE

No posts yet and I couldn't find an acronym meaning at Inish Alley

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2.2.8.5 SOPPY CHARM

(Sacrifice of Purity. Perfect? Yes. Contrived? 
Hardly a Reasoned Move)

Two posts that basically ponder whether Lily's sacrifice was nothing 
more than pure love but by way of a charm. 


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JAMES 2.2.7

This category started with 399 posts its now 254

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2.2.7.1  JOBS SUCK, BUT HOW ELSE

("James Once Befriended Snape; Snape's Unfortunate Curiousity Killed 
Buddiness Until Tournament because Harry Overcame Wrath. Evil Lupin 
Simply Erroneous and Dumbledore's Overarching Eternal Scheme Ought 
Not Engineer Losing Innocence to Voldemort's Extinction.")

One post with this acronym and I doubt it will see any more.

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2.2.7.2 UP JAB (SIC)

(Ugly Potter James Awful Bully (Snapes Innocence Crucified)

No posts yet!

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2.2.7.3 (SHH) JAM TAKES BIBS

(Squib Harry Hated) James Allowed Marvolo To Avada Kedavra Evans's 
Son But It Backfired Severely)

No posts yet!

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Quite a few of the posts were removed from the categories due to mere 
mention of the character. There were 70 posts that were rejected 
because they added nothing new or were repetitive views of theories 
that had gone out the window. I did keep at least one of the posts 
from each theory whether or not it could still be feasible i.e. 
Voldemort was Lily's father. Some posts, usually short ones, got the 
axe because they were reiterated in the next post and didn't affect 
any other categories. I removed James and Lily from posts that were 
also under Godric's Hollow/Death of James and Lily; as we agreed back 
in July that it was not necessary to have all three ticked when the 
post reflected the night the Potter's died.  

I would still recommend that a new subcategory be formed for Lily and 
her many lovers, including the LOLLIPOPS of her heart, to capture all 
these types of posts in one area. There are only 53 to date but we 
haven't even started OOP, I'm positive there will be many more. 
Then again we could use the Too EWW & variants category to encompass 
all the little devils that supposedly loved Lily. I believe it would 
be an advantage to have them neatly in one folder instead of helter 
skelter under the main heading. 

I would also like to reiterate my initial proposal to move Lily's 
sacrifice under Lily. Its more user friendly I would think, since 
they are posts that concern Lily, a user would expect to find them 
under her main heading. 


KathySnow

P.S.
Carolyn, I don't know how important it is but I checked the Current 
Categories that you downloaded to the Files section in September, 
Group 49, and noticed that 2.02.8.5 which should be SOPPY CHARM is 
missing.