Point of Order: "The Marauders"

[ingachristsuperstar]

No: HPFGUIDX 53440

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nobodysrib" <
nobodysrib at y...> wrote:
> Mr. Ed asked "a silly (and tangentially related, if you stretch
real 
> hard, to the HP series)literary question to all our resident 
> apostrophists": 
> 
> > If the HP character Seamus is ever the victim of the Avada 
Kedavra 
> > curse and his friends stood watch over his body, how would 
you 
> > punctuate what that watch would be called?    ;)
> 


Nobody's Rib, a self-proclaimed apostrophist, responds:
> 
> The wordage of your question, cleverly arranged to eliminate 
> apostrophe use, has confused me a bit, but I think I 
understand the 
> gist of your question.
> 
> There are two possibilities:  The friends are either standing 
watch 
> over "Seamus' body" or "Seamus's body."  In grammar school I 
was 
> taught the former was correct, but, according to _The Chicago 
Manual 
> of Style_ (this is a bible of sorts for apostrophists and other 
> grammarians...) *either* is acceptable, and the latter is 
preferred.
> 
> From _The Chicago Manual of Style_ website:
> 
> > Q. When indicating possession of a word that ends in s, is it 
> > correct to repeat the s after using an apostrophe? For 
example, 
> > which is correct: "Dickens' novel" or
> "Dickens's novel"?
> 
> > A. Either is correct, though the main CMS recommendation is 
the 
> > latter. Please consult 6.30 (p. 201) in the fourteenth edition, 
> > which has a full discussion of these options, including, 
> > specifically, the example of Dickens (and the phonetically 
similar 
> > Hopkins and Williams).
> (www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/
cmosfaq.html)
> 
> Hope this was of some help.


Me:

Forget punctuation issues.  It would of course be:

Finnigan's Wake

;)

-Ing