Fave Character Fan Clubs :)

[L. Inman]

No: HPFGUIDX 26533

Hello all --

Good God, I go away for a weekend and come back to find all these 
people have started fan clubs for their favorite characters.  Who 
*are* these nuts, anyway??  ;~)

Penny wrote:

> Perhaps we should elaborate on S.C.H.A.B.B. since I only introduced 
it 
> on the Mods list but hadn't described over here on the Main List 
yet. 
> S.C.H.A.B.B. was formed in response to C.R.A.B. (Cut Ron a Break), 
> although I'm told on the Mods list that we can expect there to be 
> overlap between the S.C.H.A.B.B. & C.R.A.B. groups.  :--)
> 
> Okay, so what is SCHABB, you ask?  SCHABB stands for Stop Calling 
> Hermione a Bossy Braggart.  I was going to call it Stop Calling 
Hermione 
> an Insecure Bossy Braggart who is Incapable of Running her own Love 
> Life, but it didn't work into a nice acronym & wasn't going to fit 
on 
> the badges.  

First of all, the moderators list is beginning to seem an awful lot 
like the staff room of a school -- something one would like to peep 
into and get a load of the conversation.  I ought to mention that one 
of my only successful April Fools' jokes concerned a rubber band 
around the handle of the vegetable sprayer of the staff room sink at 
my school.  --But I'm curious as to the Mods' consensus of what 
McGonagall's bra size was -- Mr. Rocky never told us!  :)

Secondly, may I say long live S.C.H.A.B.B. and P.I.N.E., as well as 
the other clubs that spring up as I write.  It's a little like 
healthy patriotism; one approves of other people's clubs as such and 
hopes for long and lively alliances with them.  We should have a 
virtual state dinner, with diplomatic sashes and trumpet flourishes.

You can indeed expect overlap to occur between SCHABB and CRAB -- in 
fact, I will go so far as to advance my own two Sickles in humble 
hope of acceptance in SCHABB.  My sympathy for Hermione extends quite 
far, perhaps as far as my sympathy for myself (my very painful first-
grade year as teacher's pet comes to mind, painful because I hated 
every minute of it, yet found myself bossing everyone about as if I 
relished it).  "My own heart let me more have pity on; let/Me live to 
my sad self hereafter kind,/Charitable; not live this tormented 
mind/With this tormented mind tormenting yet" -- a favorite line from 
Gerard Manley Hopkins, which I use to explain why I personally both 
indulge and cheer for Hermione, especially as I find her rather more 
healthy than myself.

Grace and peace to all.

Lisa I., who wishes her biggest worry could still be what people 
think of C.R.A.B., which it was on Monday the 10th.