ADMIN OOP: READ THIS FIRST - the most frequently asked questions

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 65886

idlerat wrote:
Hooray for the OWL TREAT.

I've been thinking about this. It's great on "facts" (thestrals, the
veil, initials etc.)

But I don't think it should tell people what moral conclusions they
should draw about characters. (Is James an idiot?) It's enough just
to say this has been discussed *a lot*, and maybe where or some
principal points of debate, without attempting to give a consensus
answer where, by definition, none can exist.

And then Jens wrote:
I second this, I'd like to think that my many posts on the debate 
over James counted for something.

Derannimer commented:
Yeah, I'd like to third this. This is a matter of characterization 
and theme and reader response -- of a bunch of things that it isn't 
really appropriate to treat as a simple, black-and-white, one right 
answer, factual issue.

Tom adds:
Uh-oh, Derannimer, you're 'no author' again. I would like to agree 
that a FAQ shouldn't be offering interpretations or, really, anything 
that isn't canonically accurate.


On that note, the admin team posted:
·So, who won the House Championship?
We don't know. We *do* know that the Inquisitorial Squad managed to 
empty the points of all houses but Slytherin, and that McGonagall 
awards 240 points to Gryffindor at the end (which normally wouldn't 
be enough to win: in PS, Gryffindor needs 482 points to win. More 
points might have been awarded during the feast, which Harry doesn't 
attend, though. 

Tom remarks:
Again, we *DO NOT* know that the Inquisitorial Squad emptied the 
house points from all of the houses but Slytherin's. The *ONLY* empty 
hourglass that we read about is Gryffindor's. I argued this several 
days ago, and was dismayed to learn that the Admin team had not 
adjusted the FAQ.

I'd like to suggest that the FAQ be updated when any errors are 
pointed out. After all, what's the point of reposting a FAQ (which is 
supposed to be helpful) if it's incorrect? An incorrect FAQ is very 
unhelpful, not to mention confusing, since it comes from the 
Administrators. 

-Tom, who doesn't feel bad at all about this request, since that is 
what the Admin team signed up for in the first place. ;-)