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Chapter 111: Failure, Pt 1 Voldemort says he's going to fulfil his promise to revive Hermione and leads Harry to a secret passage that turns out to be some kind of massive maze, which gives Harry plenty of time to try to think of ways to stop him. But he doesn't think of anything useful and the passage leads to a graveyard. Text in italics is spoken in parseltongue and therefore supposedly must be true. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:There was a rumbling sound, and smoothly from the ground rose an altar, at least two meters wide and of black stone carved with grey sigils. And then surrounding the altar groaned up six dark-marble obelisks, regularly spaced, gleaming darkly beneath the fading twilight sky. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:"Girl's body is restored. Substance is repaired. But not magic, or life... this is body of dead Muggle." Voldemort turned from the altar, began to pace. "The full ritual would solve this. But that would require time... time and the blood of Granger's enemy, and I do not think Draco Malfoy still qualifies, nor can I take my own blood unwillingly... foolish." Voldemort's voice was a lower hiss. "Foolish, I should have foreseen this, and prepared. Her brain might awaken with an electrical shock, I know that much of Muggle medicine... but would her magic return to her? That I do not know, and I suspect if she awakens as a Muggle she will be a Muggle forever. Still, I can think of nothing better." The Dark Lord raised his wand - Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:"And now, my dear boy," Voldemort's high voice was laced with grim amusement, as his wand briefly tapped Hermione Granger's forehead with a casual gesture, "I make this diary into a far more precious gift, a sign of how much wisdom I have learned from you. For I would never want you to be deprived of Hermione Granger's counsel and restraint, not ever while the stars yet live. Avadakedavra." Oh, I almost forgot to mention, Hermione was naked for, like, half this chapter - until Harry specifically asked Voldemort to put some clothes on her. And she was either dead or unconscious for the entire chapter. Tiggum fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Mar 8, 2019 |
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Cuazl posted:Oh, it's way dumber than that. Just you wait. Chapter 112: Failure, Pt 2 So Voldemort blocked the bullets Harry fired at him with a wall of dirt. He managed to cast a spell that caused a wall of earth to rise up between them in less time than it took for the first bullet to travel the distance between them. I guess magic, so he could be that fast, but it still seems like he's just winning because the author needs him to not die yet. Like, this wasn't him outwitting Harry or beating him in some contest of strength or will, it was basically just "oh, he's bulletproof now." Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:An instant after that, pain flared in Harry's scar, a crawling feeling came close to his skin; and then Harry's pouch, clothes, gun, everything except his wand disappeared, leaving him naked but for the wand still in his right hand, and the glasses he'd Charmed to stick to his nose. These wounds, they will not heal Fear is how I fall Confusing what is real And apparently Voldemort's horcruxes aren't destroyed? Or at least he says they aren't. Well, implies they aren't. It was just a trick to get Harry to attack him because of a previously unmentioned curse that Voldemort put on himself so that no version of him could ever try to kill any other version of him. But the curse wasn't working properly, because it should have stopped Harry from killing Voldemort but was only stopping Voldemort from killing Harry. But now Harry's inadvertently broken it so Voldemort can kill him. Which might be significant if it we'd found out about this curse at any time before it was broken. We thought Voldemort could kill him at any time and we still think that. That's like the opposite of a twist. But Voldemort isn't going to kill Harry, he just wanted to have the option available to him. And he has cast the super-horcrux spell for Hermione so now she's, like, super-immortal. Not quite as immortal as Voldemort, but as long as someone's around to resurrect her she can always come back. This is all apparently confirmed by Voldemort speaking in Parseltongue. We still only have his word for it that he can't lie in Parseltongue, but Yudkowsky seems to be writing it as though that's a confirmed fact. Then Voldemort summons a bunch of death eaters and Yudkowsky doesn't know what "insofar" means. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:Harry continued pointing his wand downward, insofar as he had been told that, if he tried to raise it, he would die. He remained silent, insofar as he had been told that if he tried to speak, he would die. He tried not to shiver in the falling night temperatures, for he was naked, and it was getting colder.
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Pawg From Produce posted:Harry tries saying two plus two is three in Parseltongue immediately after learning about the lying thing and it comes out as "two plus two is four". Yeah, we know that Harry wasn't able to lie in Parseltongue. I personally would not trust that Voldemort hadn't come up with a way of getting around that. Harry just instantly makes the leap from "I can't do it" to "no one can do it" and never questions it.
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Cardiovorax posted:"Making an untrue statement" and "being deceptive" aren't the same thing and it's really a staple of fantasy that a binding oath of truthfulness doesn't necessarily make you honest, so expect something to that effect sooner or later. Harry already found that loophole when he said he had "no intentions to use [his wand] against [Voldemort]" but meant "no specific intentions right now - but I definitely will use it against you later if I think of something that might work". Which is even more of a lie than is generally allowed by the "no untrue statements" rule, in my opinion. So the fact that he just keeps accepting everything Voldemort says in Parseltongue as fact is really dumb.
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Pvt.Scott posted:So, if you don’t know the truth about something, can you say obviously wrong bullshit about it in parseltongue and have it autocorrect to the right statement? I don't think it works that way. You just can only say things you believe to be true. So, say, if you don't know what time it is you can't say "it's 3pm" because you don't believe that it is - you just don't know that it isn't.
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Mikl posted:it could set a dangerous precedent, in that if they let it through once they might lose control of the IP altogether.
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Cardiovorax posted:You're thinking of how trademark can work like that in some cases if the plagiarist decides to make a legal case that the trademark's identity has been neglected for so long that it cannot be said to be exclusive to one particular product made by one particular manufacturer anymore. And even then, that's only that how works for the way "Kleenex" became a generic through sheer cultural momentum. Trademark is about protecting your identity. You have to register a specific thing as being identifying of you (as a person or corporation) and you have to both maintain that thing's uniqueness and specify a domain. If someone is using your trademark in the specified domain (meaning that consumers could be confused as to which company or person was supplying the product or service) then you can use your trademark to get them to stop. If they're using it in a way that couldn't cause confusion then you're out of luck. Like, you might have heard of companies trademarking particular colours; that only applies if those colours are used for the kind of product that the original company sells. "Barbie pink" is trademarked, but you can use it without fear of reprisal as long as you're not selling dolls or toys or games or anything that Mattel also sells under that brand. And if you own a trademark but let others get away with using it then you may lose it based on the fact that it no longer uniquely identifies you , your business, or your product. Like if Mattel let other companies package their dolls in Barbie Pink then they'd likely lose the trademark because it would no longer be uniquely associated with their company. Copyright is about... well, technically it's supposed to be unique expressions of ideas, but it's actually pretty vague. It always comes down to a judgement call. Is this work derivative or merely inspired by another? And if it is derivative, is it parody or criticism? But it never matters whether or not it's unique. You can allow a thousand people to write fanfiction and then sue the 1,001st because it's not about identity, it's about ownership. You can allow any number of people to use your property without ceding your ownership of it, and since you still own it you can still say that this particular person is not allowed to use it.
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Mikl posted:Oh, I think I get it. It's how Disney / Marvel can copyright their depiction of Thor and Mjolnir, but they can't trademark them because Thor and Mjolnir as concepts predate those depictions; thus, anyone can use Thor and Mjolnir, as long as they don't use the specific Marvel versions of them. Did I get it right? Not really. Thor and Mjolnir, the Norse god and his hammer, are public domain because they predate copyright. Anyone can use them and adapt them in any way they like. Thor, the super hero, is a distinct character created and owned by Marvel. If you wrote a story that used the character of Thor, the legality of that would depend on whether it was based on the god or the super hero. They can't trademark the character of Thor because trademark doesn't apply to characters. A trademark is a word, phrase, or symbol. They could trademark the name "Thor" on the basis that comics with "Thor" in the title would be assumed to be published by Marvel, meaning that if other used it then they could be passing themselves off as published or endorsed by Marvel - except that other companies have also published comics about Thor so they might not be able to make that argument. But the difference between trademark and copyright is about the type of things they apply to. Copyright applies to the expression of ideas, trademark applies to identifying marks.
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Cardiovorax posted:In practical terms, however, since they sell merchandise of these characters, they can trademark the combination of name and appearance. This is why and how selling bootleg merchandise can be illegal. Pretty sure that's copyright. The design of the character is a creative work, just like a painting or sculpture.
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Cardiovorax posted:According to sites like this one, it falls under trademark law if the product takes a particular shape related to an IP, but is in and of itself not part of the intellectual property. Merchandising is treated as a type of advertising for that purpose, as far as I can tell. A Thor doll is a special, trademarked type of doll the same way a Coca Cola bottle is a special, trademarked type of glass bottle. The whole thing is very vague and complicated. In any case, it always ends up coming down to the fact that the people with all the money can do whatever they like and the rest of us are subject to their whims.
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Chapter 113: Final Exam So Voldemort just summoned the death eaters and they're all standing around awkwardly while he lectures them about how disappointed he is in them. He tortures a couple of them to show how evil and mean he is. One of the death eaters attacks him and so he kills him in retaliation. Then Voldemort makes Harry swear an Unbreakable Vow. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:Voldemort laughed, a strange bitter laugh. When he spoke on his high voice was precise. "Here is the oath's intent, Mr. Grim, Mr. White, Harry Potter. Listen well and comprehend the Vow that must be sworn, for its intent is also binding, and you three must share an understanding of its meaning. You will swear, Harry Potter, not to destroy the world, to take no risks when it comes to not destroying the world. This Vow may not force you into any positive action, on account of that, this Vow does not force your hand to any stupidity. Do you understand that, Mr. Grim, Mr. White? We are dealing with a prophecy of destruction. A prophecy! They can fulfill themselves in twisted ways. We must be cautious that this Vow itself does not bring that prophecy about. We dare not let this Vow force Harry Potter to stand idly after some disaster is already set in motion by his hand, because he must take some lesser risk if he tries to stop it. Nor must the Vow force him to choose a risk of truly vast destruction, over a certainty of lesser destruction. But all Harry Potter's foolishness," Voldemort's voice climbed, "all his recklessness, all his grandiose schemes and good intentions - he shall not risk them leading to disaster! He shall not gamble with the Earth's fate! No researches that might lead to catastrophe! No unbinding of seals, no opening of gates!" Voldemort's voice lowered again. "Unless this very Vow itself is somehow leading into the destruction of the world, in which case, Harry Potter, you must ignore it in that particular regard. You will not trust yourself alone in making such a determination, you must confide honestly and fully in your trusted friend, and see if that one agrees. Such is this Vow's meaning and intent. It forces only such acts as Harry Potter might choose himself, having learned that he is a prophesied instrument of destruction. For the capacity for choice must also exist, to be sacrificed. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:"Return to your places..." said Voldemort. "Good. All eyes on the Potter child, prepare to fire the instant he tries to flee, or raise his wand, or speak any word..." The Dark Lord floated high in the air, the black-clad figure overlooking the graveyard. Again he held a gun in his left hand, and his wand in his right. "Better. Now we shall kill the Boy-Who-Lived." Eliezer Yudkwosky posted:This is your final exam.
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Qwertycoatl posted:The very start of chapter 1 alludes to the solution. I feel very good about the fact that I don't remember that.
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Oh poo poo, I kind of completely forgot about this thread. And we've somehow still got nine chapters to go. Chapter 114: Shut Up and Do The Impossible Harry basically stalls for time by telling Voldemort that he thinks he knows something that Voldemort wants to know, but he won't tell him. Then he threatens to cause a massive explosion - by transfiguring part of his wand into antimatter, although he doesn't tell Voldemort the method. He is speaking in parseltongue though so Voldemort knows he's not bluffing. Obviously this would kill Harry and all the death-eaters standing around (and possibly destroy the Philosopher's Stone?), but it would only temporarily delay Voldemort by forcing him to possess a new body. But even though it can't be a bluff because of the "no lies in parseltongue" thing, it actually is. He's really making a carbon nanotube filament that he wraps around all the death eaters' necks and Voldemort's arms to kill/disarm them. So I guess transfiguring the end of the wand you're using to cast the transfiguration spell works. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:The last two threads stretched out from the dark pattern, black theads already in the form of nanotubes. They moved lightly through the air toward the Dark Lord himself, toward the sleeve just above Voldemort's left hand that held the gun, toward the sleeve above the right hand that held the yew wand, threads placed high at first to give them time to drift slowly downward through the air. The threads looped around, went over themselves, tied slippable knots. Began to tighten, coming closer to the sleeve, as Harry Transfigured them shorter -
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Chapter 115: Shut Up and Do The Impossible, Pt 2 Harry is trying to decide what he can do to permanently stop Voldemort since he effectively can't be killed. He considers torturing him to drive him permanently insane, and throwing his wand into the dementor pit at Azkaban (since Voldemort is permanently linked to his wand), but isn't happy with either solution. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:In the end, there was only one option he would take, and since Harry already knew that, there was no point agonizing about it. Whether it was the best option, only time would tell. It's really convenient how Harry is able to do the exact things he needs to at this point to have everyone believe exactly what he wants them to and leave all the decisions in his hands.
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Chapter 116: Aftermath, Something to Protect, Pt 0 Harry, having travelled back in time, returns to the Quidditch game. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:Harry Potter stood up, hands still on his forehead, and dropped his hands to reveal that his famous lightning-bolt scar was now blazing red and inflamed. It was bleeding, with the blood dripping down Potter's nose. Harry also tells them that Dumbeldore is dead (or whatever it was that happened to him) so McGonagall is about to go to the graveyard but Flitwick stops her because of some reason he won't say but she clearly understands. So he goes instead. And then they finish the Quidditch game. 
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Chapter 117: Something to Protect: Minerva McGonagall It's the next day. McGonagall announces to the school that Dumbledore is gone, Voldemort is dead, Quirrell's dead, Hermione's alive, and - in front of the whole school - that the parents of several current students were death eaters and are now dead. You'd think she might want to break that news individually, but I guess not. And Harry feels bad about that. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:And because Harry had read his father's science fiction and fantasy collection, because he had already read this scene a dozen times over when it happened to other protagonists, there was an image in Harry's mind of Mad-Eye Moody, of the scarred man called Alastor. And Mad-Eye's image was saying, in just the same voice he'd used to speak to Albus Dumbledore in memory, that the Death Eaters had been pointing their wands at Harry, that they had already chosen to take the Dark Mark, that they had been guilty of sins beyond reckoning and maybe beyond Harry's imagination, that they had foregone the deontological protection of good people and made themselves targetable if there was a strong reason to sacrifice them. That it had been necessary to save Harry's innocent parents from torture and Azkaban, that it had been necessary to protect the world from Voldemort. That plain old ordinary Aurors and judges had to do much more morally questionable things than killing sworn and blooded Death Eaters who were pointing wands at them, in the course of carrying out ordinary justices that were less clear-cut but still necessary to society. If it were not right to do what Harry had done, if it were not right to do much more morally ambiguous things than what Harry had done, then society as human beings knew it could not exist. Nobody with common sense would blame Harry for doing it, Neville wouldn't blame him, Professor McGonagall wouldn't blame him, Dumbledore wouldn't blame him, even Hermione would tell him it had been the right thing to do once she knew. Five chapters to go. How are there still five chapters to go?
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Chapter 118: Something to Protect: Professor Quirrell It's Quirrell's funeral and people wanted Harry, an eleven-year-old child, to give the eulogy but he declined. So instead they have a teenager do it. Eliezer Yudkwosky posted:"Professor Quirrell was very sick," the tall boy said, his wavering voice falling into a hush of students, occasionally broken by a muffled sob. "I think if Professor Quirrell had been able to fight in the fullness of his power, You-Know-Who couldn't have beat him easily, and maybe not at all. They say that David Monroe was the only one that You-Know-Who was ever afraid of, in his day. But," Oliver's voice broke, "Professor Quirrell wasn't in the fullness of his power. He was very sick. He had trouble walking by himself. And he went to face the Dark Lord, alone." Eliezer Yudkwosky posted:"Professor Quirrell told us at the beginning of this year that what he taught us would always be our firm foundation in the arts of Defense. And it will be. Forever. We'll teach it to the new students next year, no matter who we have for a professor. The older students will teach the younger ones. That's the solution to the curse on the Defense position. We won't sit around waiting for authority to teach us. And we'll make sure that Professor Quirrell's teachings never die out of Hogwarts."
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Chapter 119: Something to Protect: Albus DumbledoreEliezer Yudkowsky posted:"How - how's Hermione doing?" Harry hadn't had a chance to ask until now. The first one is all about how he's got to defeat Voldemort and the less important characters are going to be his sidekicks (even though they're adults and he's a child). The other letter is about how Dumbledore secretly listened to all the prophecies in the Ministry of Magic and hey said that Harry is going to destroy the world. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:And so, it being clear that this world is not meant to last, I have gambled literally everything upon you, Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres. There were no prophecies of how the world might be saved, so I found the prophecies that offered loopholes in the destruction; and I brought about the strange and complex conditions for those prophecies to come to pass. I ensured that Voldemort discovered a certain one of those prophecies, and so (even as I had feared) condemned your parents to death and made you what you are. I wrote a strange hint in your mother's Potions textbook, having no idea why I must; and this proved to show Lily how to help her sister, and ensured you would gain Petunia Evans's heartfelt love. I snuck invisibly into your bedroom in Oxford and administered the potion that is given to students with Time-Turners, to extend your day's cycle by two hours. When you were six years old I smashed a rock that was on your windowsill, and to this day I cannot imagine why. And remember how Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew are swapped around in this story, so Sirius is the bad guy and Peter's the good guy? Well Peter is also not merely an animagus but a full-on shapeshifter, and Sirius forced him to transform into a duplicate of Sirius and go to Azkaban in his place. But Sirius was one of the Death Eaters that Harry killed, so now they realise that the one in Azkaban is actually Peter and they're going to let him out. I don't know what the point of that revelation is. Harry then declares that they're going to shut down Azkaban and Hermione is going to kill all the Dementors. And he's opening a hospital where the Philosopher's Stone will be used to heal
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Chapter 120: Something to Protect: Draco Malfoy Harry tells Draco that he killed Lucius, and then McGonagall wipes his memory. I don't know what the point of that was. Then this: Eliezer Yusdkowsky posted:"Here's the last thing," Harry Potter said. "I found it in a folded parchment whose outside said that it was the last weapon to be used against House Malfoy, telling me not to read any further until the whole war hung in the balance. I didn't want to tell it to you before because I thought it might prejudice your decision unfairly. If you were a good person who never killed or lied, but you had to do one or the other, which would be worse?" ¹The amnesiac is Draco's mum. McGonagall is not Draco's mum.
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Epicurius posted:I honestly don't remember, how does this story treat Ron? Because the Weasleys are frankly pretty drat awesome, Ron is a loveable fuckup, his dad is a doofus, his mom isn't afraid to kick rear end, his siblings are all annoying in just the right ways, and the family is collectively some of the best and most likeable characters in the book. IIRC Ron is briefly mentioned as a moron who is beneath Harry's notice.
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Chapter 121: Something to Protect: Severus Snape McGonagall is trying to figure out what she needs to do next and is consulting with Harry about it for some reason, but both of them are too Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:He knows. The thought came to Harry, and he couldn't have said in words just what the Potions Master now knew; except that it was clear that Severus knew it. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:"It is well to find you here, Mr. Potter," Severus said. "There is unfinished business between us." Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:and that was the last that anyone ever heard of Severus Snape.
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V. Illych L. posted:the reason he gets snubbed by these books is because he represents a rejection of a particular kind of ideology which takes having a high iq a virtue and means that it is only moral to learn to think in such a way as to increase one's iq scores (roughly) I think it's simpler than that. He's obviously a moron because he likes
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Chapter 122: Something to Protect: Hermione GrangerEliezer Yudkowsky posted:In the room below, connected to the rooftop by a simple wooden ladder, was Harry's new office inside Hogwarts. A wide room, surrounded by full-wall windows on four sides for sunlight; currently bare of furnishings but for four chairs and a desk. Harry had told Headmistress McGonagall what he was looking for, and Headmistress McGonagall had put on the Sorting Hat and then told Harry the series of twists and turns that would take him where he wanted to be. High enough in Hogwarts that the castle shouldn't have been that tall, high enough in Hogwarts that nobody looking from the outside would see a piece of castle corresponding to where Harry now sat. It seemed like an elementary precaution against snipers that there was no reason not to take. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:The prophecy Dumbledore's letter had mentioned about him tearing apart the stars in heaven... well, that sounded optimistic. That part had an obvious interpretation to anyone who'd grown up with the right sort of upbringing. It described a future where humanity had won, more or less. It wasn't what Harry usually thought about when he gazed at the stars, but from a truly adult perspective, the stars were enormous heaps of valuable raw materials that had unfortunately caught fire and needed to be scattered and put out. If you were tapping the huge hydrogen-helium reservoirs for raw materials, that meant your species had successfully grown up. Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:The thought came then to Harry of another work of fiction, more obscure than Tolkien: Eliezer Yudkowsky posted:Harry was aware on some level - no, he needed to stop being aware of things on some level and start just being aware of them - Harry was explicitly and consciously aware that he was ruminating about the Future mostly to distract himself from the imminent arrival of Hermione Granger. Then Hermione shows up and they have a very tedious conversation recapping the last few chapters in which she consistently and repeatedly addresses him as "Mr. Potter", which I find incredibly irritating. Harry gives her the cloak of invisibility and then, after a conversation that seems like it's never going to end, they swear to be friends forever and that's it. It's over. We made it. Now let's never speak of it again.
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cultureulterior posted:Hope you guys had fun! I still think it's a fantastic work of literature- (I voted for it as best novel Hugo), but people do get different things out of books! I just checked your post history in this thread and the one thing you seem to have actually said you like about it is that the protagonist is pro-immortality. Is that really enough to get you past literally everything else about it or do you also think it's good in other ways?
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cultureulterior posted:The only book where both the time travel and people's (Harry's) reaction to time travel makes sense. cultureulterior posted:Excellent descriptions of high-powered magic. cultureulterior posted:Exploiting magic system of transfiguration/patronus worked well for me. (Most people get imdoctrinated with the anti-immortality sour grapes so it makes sense that few people could do it) Same with the patronus thing. Harry's super power is that he is literally the first person to ever think that it defeating death could be possible - but the deathly hallows are based on that very idea. His uniqueness is contradicted within the story. cultureulterior posted:Time pressure being applied by the joint effort of high powered seers is a great reason for an implausible plot to work out. (Few realize this, Worm, Wheel of Time, Jean Johnson, Rothfuss are the only ones I know of) cultureulterior posted:(I generally stay away from books without either spaceships or magic)
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Added Space posted:So, ideas brought up but not explored - There are a few occasions early on where Harry thinks about bringing muggle science, technology and methods to not just magic but the wizarding world in general, and then never does. Like when he finds out how wizard money works and realises that, with his wealth and knowledge of commodity markets, he could destroy their economy. Not saying he should have done that, but why bring it up if no one's going to try it? Of course, you could take that as simply a joke intended to poke fun at the less serious aspects of the source material, but that's another example of things that were promised and never delivered on. There are a number of examples early on where Harry is shocked by how things work in the wizarding world and it seems like the story's going to spend some time exploring that, but it never does. It's just the most obvious and shallow observations that everyone's heard before and they're abandoned entirely when Yudkowsky decides that actually he's trying to write a serious story rather than a parody. There's also the stuff about killing dementors. It's pretty clearly set up that Harry is eventually going to go and dismantle Azkaban and hunt down every dementor, and in the end he not only doesn't do that but he actually assigns Hermione to do it instead. Or rather, plans to. The story ends just at the point where he's about to explain this to her. No exploration of how this would be done in practice or what impact it would have on society or how people would react. It's just assumed that it's going to be fine because Hermione can do it and she's immortal now and supposedly killed Voldemort so I guess everyone will just accept it? Or how about Harry and the other students all learning and improvising new combat strategies and teamwork and all that. Could have had that pay off with an actual battle - like the source material did - but nope. The final confrontation is essentially one-on-one. The armies and all the characters introduced for that giant side-plot are totally irrelevant.
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Cardiovorax posted:I'm not a native speaker, aren't they pronounced the same way in English? No. "Scion" is pronounced with an unvoiced S sound as in "ice". "Zion" is pronounced with a voiced Z sound as in "zoo".
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Now, give thanks to the person who compiled those threads into ebook format, causing the author to abandon the third book in the series before it began. What's the story there?
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divabot posted:so can we do Red Tidday Up White Tidday Down now, or maybe Dark Lord's Answer, or Who's "we"? You can certainly start those threads if you want to. I'll read them. The threads, that is. I'm not volunteering to take on another one of these... texts.
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divabot posted:the reader realises what she's let herself in for I don't know if you noticed, but the first tweet in that thread says "i'm going to reread HPMOR". She's already read it at least once. 
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