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I mean for exaple "Harry Potter WAS an ..." "Ron WAS.." - they still live, who knows, but saying that they were is weird..
I think its so everything rolls together better and mostly because we've read it so its already happened. Gryffindor1991 21:53, August 16, 2011 (UTC)
- See HPW:POLICY#Style. It's to keep the way articles are written uniform and avoid jarring tenses switches. The Wiki is essentially written from the perspective of historians looking back on things in the distant past. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 22:44, August 16, 2011 (UTC)