[HPforGrownups] L.O.O.N.s, was Re: Why should Harry be expected to listen...

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In a message dated 1/23/2005 7:13:16 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
editor at texas.net writes:

Chancie:

> I don't know what you mean by
>
>  "L.O.O.N. on deck."
>
> But it doesn't sound very  nice.

This is list culture, to which you have not yet been  exposed--probably
because most of the L.O.O.N.s are not very active posters  these days. The
reference was not to you, but to me. I am a founding  L.O.O.N.

A L.O.O.N. is a member of the League Of Obsessive Nitpickers.  The accolade
is bestowed by other L.O.O.N.s, almost always onlist,  following the
exhibition of a consistent and lunatic dedication to the  details of canon.
See below for an  example.
Chancie:

>  And sorry, but Umbridge
> did try to kill  him, unless of course having
> dementor's sent to your town to hunt  you
> down and kiss you, is your idea of a hot date.  =)

But  the statement was that Harry's *teachers* tried to kill him, and at  the
point Umbridge sent the dementors, she was not yet his  teacher.

See?

~Amanda, L.O.O.N.




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Chancie:
 
You are right in saying that she wasn't his teacher at that time,
but IMO, the fact that she did become his teacher after the 
incident is still in essence a teacher that tried to kill Harry.
 
And thanks for the "L.O.O.N." education.  As you said I had  never
heard of it, but what does the "LOON stand for exactly.  You omited 
that info in your post, and now I am curious.
 


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