[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: No responses on the main list (Was: Wizarding Education )

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

[Phil B., on a roll, wrote]:
|
| Some people are desperate for a time-travel story, so they will try to
| work that into the HP series, disregarding all the warnings about it
| stated within canon. Suggesting that Dumbledore *must* be Ron Weasley
| sent back in time, despite all the back-story about DD in canon, and
| the absurdity of such a prominent figure springing up out of nowhere,
| is a prime example.

[Lee]:
That's one of the things that makes me wonder if I've really read the same
HP books as everyone else. <LOL>

[Phil]:
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| As for what I think about people who haven't learnt what "snippage" is
| and just quote entire posts because they're too lazy to edit, I'm
| afraid as a long-ago Usenet freak, my opinion is well-nigh
| unprintable. It just gets impossible to read a conversation when the
| individual posts are badly formatted and too convoluted to follow. I
| just scroll past most of this stuff.

[Lee]:
Yes, and the lack of proper attribution on some of the posts makes it
difficult to know who's speaking, especially for those of us with screen
readers, unless I manually cursor through and look for all the prefix marks.
I do think the policy on correct attribution is really a great one; let's
all hold to it.

And spell-checkers...I'd be lost without mine, for sure.  Not that I'm a
terrible speller, but when typing fast, errors can occur and the
spell-checker is my friend.  I've taught it a lot, too, between HP and
Battlestar terminology. <LOL>

And, of course, there's post signing...something I'm always attacking my BSG
list people about, for all the good it does. <Sigh> :-)

[Phil]:
| Sorry, this started out as a quick comment, and seems to have turned
| into a minor rant. Lunchtime beckons :-)

Hmm--I just had breakfast at the frightfully early hour of 8:30 A.M., which
is almost unheard of in this house! <Grin>

Rants are not necessarily a bad thing, for you never know who may be
secretly ranting with you and just afraid to post it for whatever reason.

However, at this point, I shall disband and march my little self downstairs
for my second coffee...or third...or... :-)

Later,

Lee :-)

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