Fantastic Posts and Where to Find Them (was: The Living Philosopher's Stone

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 56205


Bill:

> 
> I have often thought that it was a terrible shame that so many 
> wonderful posts to this board end up buried deep in the archives, 
> never to be seen again.  I myself have participated in, or simply 
> read, many threads which delved into symbolism, foreshadowing, ect. 
> in the HP books.  Sadly, this board has little in the way of search 
> functions, so most have never been seen again.
> 
> It would be a monumental task to re-read every post to this board, 
> but if somebody were to do so, marking out the 'significant' posts 
> along the way, it would be of enormous value.  This would be a HUGE 
> task, as this board is currently using 197 MB, compared to the 90 KB 
> for 15 000 words of my post.  By simple algebra, 197 MB would be 
> roughly 33 million words, in over 56 000 posts - 600 words per post.  
> The actual value would be something less than this number - maybe 
> half, which is still greater than 15 million words.
> 

I tried to reply to this twice via webview yesterday and it kept getting 
eaten.
Grrr!

I just thought I'd take this opporunity to remind everyone about our great 
site,

Fantastic Posts and Where to Find them, 

http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/ 

which attempts to do just what you ask. The link is actually there on the 
home page, but unfortunately it isn't live, so it doesn't really stand out.

This contains a selection of  essays on characters and topics of relevance to 
HP and HPfGU, drawing on and linking to the posts of many members, past and 
present. The work is by no means completed (I doubt that will be possible for 
a long time, given the productivity of our list members!), but you may be 
interested to learn that between last October and this February, a group of 
us did indeed catalogue the contents of nearly 17000 posts, to act as a 
resource for those updating old and writing new essays for the site. 

As for the subject of this thread, you would find it, with live links to the 
key posts first time around, under 'Stoned!Harry' in Hypothetic Alley 
(HPfGU's Wildest Speculations):

http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/hypotheticalley.html

which is also to be found on the Fantastic Posts site.

~Eloise




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