"!" and "ESE" (was Re: Shared thoughts)

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 109011

Meidbh:
> Why do you guys use exclamation marks to name your theory
> characters (changeling!Harry etc)?

Kneasy:
> As for !, it's a very convenient shorthand so far as I'm concerned
> when used to describe some aspect of a character. Crouch!Moody
> is much easier than "Barty Crouch while pretending to be Moody."
> So ESE!Snape, Weapon!Harry, Puppetmaster!DD; everybody knows
> which facet of the character or theory about the character you're 
> talking about.
> Dunno where it started though.
 
Yep, what he said. <g>  Since a few folks have asked about "!" 
and "ESE" lately, will take this opportunity to explain and also to 
plug the "Abbreviations and Shorthands" file found here in the Files 
section in the "Admin_Files" folder.  In fact, this file has recently 
been rearranged a bit, with "!", "ESE", and "Flint" given right at 
the top, since those are the ones people ask about most often. 

>From the file:

"! as in Evil!Draco, Dead!Ron, Clever!Neville: From the early days of 
the Internet, the exclamation mark is sometimes pronounced "bang", 
and used to attribute a characteristic to a character. Evil!Draco is 
evil, Dead!Ron is, surprisingly, dead."

and 

"ESE:  Ever So Evil -- used with a character that appears 'good' in 
canon, but some list members think might be secretly 'evil', e.g., 
Pippin's ESE!Lupin theory."

--Kelley