Drowning in theories. A plea.

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In a message dated 15/02/02 02:02:39 GMT Standard Time, pollux46 at hotmail.com 
writes:
<snip>
quotes Cindy,
> 
> >That said, we do need someone to devise a theory for why Sirius 
> hates 
> >Snape so much. This is more than just the hatred Sirius has at the 
> >end of GoF. For some reason, Sirius hated Snape enough to play the 
> >Prank, but I haven't seen a LOLLIPOPS, George, CUPIDSBLUDGER, 
> Prince, 
> >Mercy, Mercy II type of explanation that I find compelling. Any 
> >takers?
> 
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>Been meaning to ask this for a long time: What exactly does SINISTER 
>stand for?

Now I've been here for a number of weeks during which time a number of these 
theories have come up, LOLLIPOPS being earlier (and I can just about cope 
with that one, and nearly with CUPIDSBLUDGER despite never being able to 
remember exactly what they stand for). I try to keep up, honestly I do, but 
it's hard and I just feel for the poor guys out there who've only just 
arrived and who read these messages full of acronyms and obscure theory 
names. It must be gibberish!
I know George was introduced, but somehow I missed him (I think I assumed it 
was a thread about George Weasley), which is a shame because I gather now 
that he is a friend of mine. Sometimes new theories come up in posts I 
haven't read (admits it) because, well, time is limited and there are these 
things called family and work and stuff and I have to select which threads I 
am most interested in. Then I find someone's said something key in a post I 
haven't read because it started life in a thread I wasn't following and I'm 
all at sea. 

I know there is a site now for the acronyms (but where is it?). I just wonder 
if there isn't some way that these theories can be collected and summarised 
or whether perhaps they can be referenced to the message number where they 
first appear. It's very hard to trace them back as the threads don't 
necessarily have the theory name in the title. 
Perhaps when a theory takes on this independent, named life, its originator 
could do a very short summary, give the original message number and tack this 
on as an addendum. Anyone taking up the thread could then just paste this 
onto the end of their message so that anyone coming into the conversation who 
doesn't know for instance, what Mercy II is (me, for instance) could come up 
to speed.

Eloise. Tryng to keep her head above water but in grave danger of drowning. 
Hasn't anyone got a lifebelt....Please??


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