Brit schools/normal/beaches/stalactites/Main List Movie Release Blues

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Sarah wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23379 :

<<  4 forms - 1H, 1B, 1X and 1S, and you stayed with that letter
throughout school (1H, 2H, 3H, 4H etc) >>

I'm curious what the letters stood for.

<< So stop analysing - this is all normal >>

As for me personally, I am not normal -- I am so far from normal that
I not only don't know about normal things, I don't even UNDERSTAND
normal things when I read about them, so I really need to have normal
things explained to me in a very detailed, very basic, very analytical
way.

Steve wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23383 :

<< Are there uniquely wizarding ocean beaches hidden from muggle 
view? >>

Canon (FANTASTIC BEASTS, p. xvi): "Older readers will remember the
Ifracombe Incident of 1932, when a rogue Welsh Green dragon swooped
down upon a crowded beach full of sunbathing Muggles. Fatalities were
mercifully prevented by the brave actions of a holidaying wizarding
family (subsequently awarded Orders of Merlin, First Class) when they
immediately performed the largest batch of Memory Charms this century
on the inhabitants of Ifracombe, thus narrowly averting castrophe."

That indicates that it is sufficiently normal for a sufficient catalog
of wizarding folk to holiday at Muggle watering-places that Scamander
felt no need to explain why that wizarding family was at Ifracombe. My
guess is that JKR doesn't think there are any private wizarding ocean
beaches in Britain, but personally I like to believe that there is at
least one, but it is very exclusive and expensive (actually I put it
on an islet which is concealed from Muggles, which I named Aeaea after
Circe's island).  

Elfundeb moved from main list to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23385 :

<< mrslestrange" <elizabethleclerc at h...> observed:

>By the way, I learned the trick:
>stalaGmites come out of the Ground
>stalaCtites come out of the Ceiling >>

That mnemonic has always confused me worse, as I can't remember
whether C means it comes out of the ceiling OR it points at the
ceiling. I'll try to use the other mnemonics in this moved thread instead.

Kneasy wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23442 :

<< So call me a whiner - better to my mind than airily dismissing
concerns from the lofty eminence of 4 years on site. One stance is
concerned about maintaining reasonably adult standards; the other sees
no cause to worry. Sorry, I think you're wrong. The complexion of the
membership is changing, and not in a way I feel comfortable with. >>

I am more disturbed about wading through the large VOLUME of posts on
main list than about a number of them being of low quality.

I think that the main list would benefit from some posters being given
a Detailed Tutorial in snippage -- That's the one thing I agree with
Phil's post about, HI ERIN and LEE.

I also think that limiting the number of posts per person per day
WOULD help. Even tho' it interferes with threading by requiring
combo-posts.

But I feel that the sloppy posters (some of the ones Kneasy complains
of, altho' I fear that he includes me and many other posters I like in
his KoKo's Little List) will all either go away or clean up their act
in a couple of months, so I'm not panicking.

Have there been any progress reports on the HPfGU Catalog Project, an
effort to create an index of post pasts? In April I was invited to
help catalog (thus becoming a cat-alog cat-lady), but I am really too
busy *sigh*.