Elkins's Tactics

[lucky_kari <lucky_kari@yahoo.ca>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, dfrankiswork at n... wrote:

> While I am 'on air', so to speak, may I be permitted to comment on
>another thread on this list?  Concerning Madam Elkins' nanology, I 
>have no comment on the actual content (my in-tray is groaning as it
>is).  However, may I suggest, in the case where a number of posts
were >already prepared, there might have been tactical merit in releasing 
>the posts gradually, perhaps on a daily basis, and concealing until
>late in the day the precise number of them?  The increased reader
>anticipation is, I believe, well worth the wait.  Not that the case
is >likely to arise again.
 
Well, actually, I'm still in awe of the brilliance of Elkins's
strategy. I've been wondering for a long time whether she's a
Slytherin or a Ravenclaw, and now I'm convinced it's the former. 

You see, if she had released the posts separately, she knew that I
would immediately argue back on grounds that would later be destroyed
in her next posts. She wanted to overwhelm me with a complete coherent
argument that covered literally everything, and to have me keeping in
mind everything she said when I made my response to separate points.

Very brilliant, and very effective. 
Eileen