Chapter & Character Discussions (Please Read)

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No: HPFGUIDX 5798

Penny commented on Chapter/Character summaries:

Firstly, this week it's supposed to be Jess writing about Molly 
Weasley and Chapter 19, 'The Hungarian Horntail'.  Jess, where art 
thou?

Penny said:

<<<I'm finding that it's always up to me to nag at the person who 
signed up to get their chapter & character discussion done for the 
week, and oftentimes, I don't remember myself that it's missing until 
mid-week. I'm also noting that the summaries don't seem to be 
stimulating a tremendous amount of discussion.  Ebony raised a number 
of fun questions in her Chapter 18 summary last week, and as best I 
recall, no one made a stab at responding (including me).>>>

**

As I recall, we started this project to give ourselves things to 
discuss until close to the release of Book 5, in the naive belief 
that the postings might die down after a few months and we'd be left 
twiddling our thumbs. Yeah, right. 

I've voted and said that I don't always respond, but I do like 
reading the summaries.  I've forgotten more about GoF than I've 
remembered, so the chapter summaries in particular are a great memory-
jogger.  

I enjoyed Ebony's recent post. However, she did challenge us to 
prepare mini works of fanfic and I hadn't got time to try that, great 
idea though it was.  I wanted to say something about Ollivander, but 
the moment passed.    

Perhaps we could enter all the summaries into the Files area so that 
people can read them independently of the ongoing threads and make 
comments as and when they wish?  They could still be prepared to the 
timetable, but the discussions wouldn't have to be concurrent.

The next character summary I'm due to submit is the one on Snape, 
early next year.  I think it's safe to say we will have discussed 
Snape *to death* by then, so people may think writing a character 
summary is pretty pointless.  On the other hand, I'm committed to 
composing something for the Snape FAQ before then, so I'll have the 
basis of it anyway. The same is true for Hermione, for example (Penny 
is doing both). 

As we begin dealing with major characters, we may find there is 
actually *less* discussion after the summaries, because it is not so 
easy to post a single message on "Harry Potter" or "Lord Voldemort" 
unless some new ideas have been thrown up.   

If we decide to continue with this idea, I don't mind chasing the 
volunteers and dazzling them with my headlights if they don't come up 
with the goods.  However, I suspect that some of them have already 
apparated out of here...

Neil