Pippin! A request from the catalogue group..

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

> Ohhh, you want a tag to be used in headings going forward, to 
> make things easier for the catalogue group? TTTT, I've always 
resisted labelling the theory with an acronym except in TBAY posts  
because I didn't want people to think they had to be TBAY-ers to 
understand it. People were getting it mixed up with MAGIC DISHWASHER 
as it  was, not helped by the similarity between my handle and Pip's.
> 
> I never wanted the theory to be considered just as a TBAY. It is, 
for what it's worth, a serious attempt to solve the puzzle, or as 
serious as an attempt can be given that some don't think there *is* a 
puzzle.
> 
> Hmmm...LYCANTHROPE takes up too much room in the header --
> any other suggestions?
> 
> Pippin
> (Perpetually Insisting Prongs's Pet Is Nefarious)

Carolyn:

Sort of. The problem is that there are a number of independent ESE!
Lupin posts as well as your theory (obviously none as well worked out 
or ongoing). The dither is whether to separate them out, so your 
posts can be read in sequence by themselves, or whether it is more 
useful to people to find all such ESE!Lupin posts together, alongside 
all the hysterical responses, strangely denouncing the very idea as 
utter tripe <g>.

As far as the TBAY aspect goes, we don't really see that as a 
problem. The main MD posts were not TBAY in style, nor were many of 
the ensuing battles, although of course some of them were (episodes 
in the Safe House etc). I think the same goes for your ESE!Lupin - 
sometimes the posts are TBAY, many are not.

We are adding a marker for any post that is in TBAY style, so that 
people can do searches which exclude them if it makes them throw up 
to read them [sad souls, they'll miss so much of the flavour of the 
list].

My hesitation about LYCANTHROPE is not that it is especially long, 
but that I wouldn't necessarily go to it thinking, 'aha! Pippin's 
theory', as the acronym just hasn't been used enough over time for 
people to make this strong association. MD you would turn to (under 
Dumbledore), knowing exactly what you were going to find.

It's an interesting problem, one of many.

Carolyn
.. who came across this sad farewell to TBAY the other day. Things 
never were quite the same again:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/messages/61153