Thank You (TBAY)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Oops, I left TBAY in subject line of previous post even tho' I 
decided to make it a separate post!

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "dradamsapple" <dradamsapple at y...> wrote:

> Um, forgive my stupidity (even tho I've been around for awhile, I'm 
> still learning);

No stupidity, just having been looking elsewhere (house remodelling?) 
while a whole new cult[ure] evolved on the main list.

>  what is TBay? 

TBAY is Theory Bay. Originally, Theory Bay was the (imaginary) body 
of water on which all the ships (imaginary vessels crewed by the 
'shippers'*) floated. 

(* - you already know that 'shippers' are those who insist that a 
romantic relationship exists between the two specified characters -- 
I am told that in X-FILES fandom, there are only shippers and 
anti-shippers: Mulder and Scully do or don't have something going on 
on the side, but in HP fandom, there are infinite ships, so the 
Harry/Hermione and Ron/Hermione shippers can fight each other, and 
the Harry/Hermione and Harry/Ginny and Harry/Cho shippers... Over on 
FictionAlleyPark, they have NAMED the ships and signed up for crew 
JOBS.)

But soon all kinds of vessels (hovercraft, kayaks, inner tubes, etc) 
sprang up to represent theories that don't concentrate on the 
characters' sex lives ... There is, for example, one for the theory 
that Harry spent the missing 24 hours with Mrs. Weasley and infant 
Ron, and that is why they instantly became friends when they met 
again at age 11... And a whole village grew up on the shore of the 
Bay, including a Canon Museum, Canon College with a final exam in 
Snapeology, Safe House for spy theories... Supposedly these theories 
are on display in the following locations:

Hypothetic Alley:
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/faq/hypotheticalley.html

Inish Alley:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/database?ethod=reportRows&
tbl=13 

And by now TBAYing means arguing predictions of what is going to 
happen, or what has already happened but not been revealed to the 
readers, in the form of rpg (role-playing-game) write-ups. 

> Anna . . .(runs and hides under her invisibility cloak . . .);-}

Cute.