Main List Survival Strategy (WAS: Retreating to the safety of OTChatter

[ER]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" 
<rvotaw at i...> wrote:

> So, there's a survival strategy?  I tried keeping up with the main 
list, really.  >

...
 
> It's just killing me not being able to get input from anyone, 
because my mind is whirling with all this new info

The problem, I find, is that there is no middle way - either it's the 
forums where all the posts are one-liners with dozens of exclamation 
marks and HH4EVER, or it's HPFGU where the posts are way too learned 
for my HP-knowledge and there's a posting rate that makes reading a 
chore (just given up trying to make sense of the main list).

I still can't decide if OOP is a brilliant book with lots of deep 
revelations that carries the action seamlessly forward, or whether 
JKR has, so to speak, lost the plot. If any kind soul could enlighten 
me I'd be most grateful! Offline would be fine if it's considered too 
off-topic to be on-topic on an off-topic forum :))

ER