[HPforGrownups] Repetitive discussion: Was Looking for God in Harry Potter

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 153517

In a message dated 6/6/06 7:05:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
leslie41 at yahoo.com writes:
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> Thanks for the tip--
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> But as has been pointed out, much of what we discuss here has been 
> gone over in great detail in the past. My guess is, after nearly a 
> year, you won't be able to find anything on HBP that hasn't been 
> mused over. Or the series in general. Snape, the identity of RAB, 
> Dumbledore's death, the horcruxes, etc.
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> The reason this group exists is because for us issues related to the 
> books never get old, or settled conclusively. People often change 
> their minds or come up with new things to say, or just want to 
> express their opinions again to people who haven't read them before, 
> especially after two years (the date of the post you cite). I'm 
> sure the threads on God and Harry Potter from two years ago are 
> interesting, and I will go back and read them. But doubtless 
> they're not conclusive, especially after HBP. My guess is they 
> won't ever be conclusive, because no discussion of the books will 
> be "conclusive" except with regard to canon, and what is "canonical".
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> Sandy now:

   It also needs to be remembered that new members join the group every day. 
I am relatively new, having only been a member for about 2 1/2 months now, so 
everything posted so far is new to me. Yes, there is the archives, but there 
can be many reasons for not referring to it. Speaking only for myself, I am on 
an old dinosaur of a computer (Windows 95) that isn't capable of much so what 
functions many of you take for granted I don't have. It is often difficult 
just making a post to the list. Then there is the matter of time. This list 
generates so many posts that I am often running two to three days behind and trying 
to catch up. Who has time to go searching in the archives? I don't. When I 
first joined I was determined to read every post from the very first one to the 
current ones. After about two weeks and about 250 posts I gave it up for a 
lost cause. It will have to wait until I retire in 2 1/2 years. As far as I'm 
concerned the topics can repeat themselves as much as they want because someone 
is always going to have something new to add. Every one of us has the option to 
delete any post, unread, that we find repetitive, tiresome or not to our 
liking. There are two current threads I am doing that with at the moment/
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> I would venture that if we were going to stop talking about what 
> we've talked about before, the board would cease to exist until the 
> seventh book came out.
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> Sandy again:

How true. I can't begin to tell you how excited I was to find this list. 
Intelligent ADULT Harry Potter conversation. I belong to at least five other HP 
Yahoo groups and they have all been dead in the water since a month after HBP 
was released. One of them is still quasi-active if airhead and way off-topic 
conversation is your thing. It isn't mine. This group (HPfGU) is exciting and 
intellectually stimulating, and fun. All of this right between two books is 
wonderful. So keep the topics coming, even if they sometimes tend to be repetitive. 
I don't want this party to end or this group to die in the water like the 
others have.

Sandy, who was in the ESE!Snape camp until I joined this list and was 
converted to DDM!Snape, mostly by Carol, who is one of my favorite posters.

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