<DIV>Ginger steps into the office after a quick trip to Honeydukes. Walking over to Jen, she hands her a big bag of "Lovin' Feelin' Cockroach clusters". Watch out, Jen, they really do try and feel you. As an afterthought, she also gives Jen a nice sack of plain old chocolate covered caramels. Boring, but no feelers.</DIV>
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<DIV>Potioncat gets a nice array of candied fruit. Hey, it's not crab, but they smelt good.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now for Kelly, a big jar of Bertie Bott's Beans (with all the nasty ones removed). Unfortunately, you have to guess how many beans are in each jar. But you should be up to that after:<BR><BR><TT>--------------------------</TT><TT><BR><BR>3.16.3 Admission Process & overall school population<BR>----------------------------------------------------<BR>(snip)</TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT>Starting with school population, I was very tempted to remove all <BR>posts but club post 7032, which reached the following definitive <BR>number of students: <BR>(snip funny post that says it all)<BR>Seriously, though, any posts you come across that say "Hogwarts has X <BR>number of students because of ..." and proceed to quote one or two <BR>passages from the books need to be rejected. I can guarantee you <BR>that there is not a single piece of canonical evidence that has not <BR>already been quoted, second-guessed, and debated to death in the <BR>posts I kept. <BR></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT>Ginger cuts in: I just finished a thread of those last week, and you will be pleased to know I rejected all but a few.</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>Kelly continues:</TT><TT><BR>I won't even mention posts located at #40000+ that say, "Hey, anyone<BR>know how many students are at Hogwarts? Or realize that the numbers<BR>in the books aren't entirely consistant?"<BR></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT>Ginger again: I reject every question with no actual information. I figure that if someone answers it, they will include it in their post. Not a bad rule of thumb, I think, but one that must be used with caution.</TT></DIV>
<P><TT>Kelly goes on:<BR>So, unless you come across a really compelling, detailed, well-<BR>researched thesis on the topic of Hogwarts population, think twice <BR>about coding it.<BR><BR>Posts that belong in other categories: (snip)<BR>- Other wizarding schools: Multiple-campus and other-British-<BR>wizarding-schools theories often began as an attempt to reconcile <BR>school population discrepancies. Once the conversation moves on to <BR>discuss the plausibility and details of other schools, keep it out of this category.</TT></P>
<P><TT>Ginger, who reviewed the "OtherWizarding schools" catergory adds: </TT><TT>While we're on that, please just reject anyof those unless they are pretty darn insightful and well-written (barring new canon, of course). I hacked that category to death, and still didn't remove anything, content-wise.(snipthe rest of Jen's post).</TT></P>
<P><TT>Ginger pauses, smiles at the assembled, and from behind her back, brings out a sack of assorted goodies. </TT></P>
<P><TT>Share amongst yourselves.</TT></P>
<P><TT>And with that, she returns to her desk to start her next batch.</TT></P><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com