Three Years and Counting!

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 80977

It's that time again!

(steps back to allow the marching band through, brushes confetti out of
hair)

Yes....it's time for Amanda's Anniversary Re-Post!!!

Control yourselves.

In the dim, dark, far-off days, when my children still napped and I was
spending money and not earning it, I bought a book on sale, that I had
avoided because it was popular. But 30% off, hey. You know the rest.

And I had only one friend who had also read them, and she is not the
literary analysis type, and it occurred to me one day out of the blue that
maybe there were *online discussion groups* for this. Surely I wasn't the
only one who was dissecting these books. So I searched on "Harry Potter,"
found a few groups, and most of them were drivel. But one looked likely. I
joined.

Some of those who were here to meet me, who are still here:  Penny
Linsenmayer, the Jims Ferer and Flanagan, siriusgeologist, JenP, Joywitch,
Ebony, the Flying Ford Anglia, Catlady, Lexicon Steve, Aberforth's Goat,
Kelley Elf-to-be, Sheryll, Susan McGee, Golden_faile (and others, but Yahoo
keeps crashing as I attempt to see the members list. I was something like
the 234th member. I find it meaningful on some random-conjunction level that
the list reached 11,000 members on my third anniversary.

And so here follows the re-post of Message 1583. Needless to say, in the
intervening years I have done my best--and all my fellow listmembers have
helped--to remedy the lack I complain about:

From:  Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net>
Date:  Sat Sep 16, 2000  9:52 pm
Subject:  Hello, and a question

Greeting to the list. I'm new, and I've been group-hopping trying to find
the level of discussion I'd like, and you seem to be it. I hope I can
contribute items of interest, too.

A question---in all the groups I've observed, nobody's talking about Snape.
Can I get your thoughts on him? He seems to be such a complex
character---any theories (I've got a few) on *why* he stays with the good
guys? Why Dumbledore trusts him?

Just wondering if you were pondering what I was pondering,

Amanda

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