- Tunicate
- May 15, 2012
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And it would have been nice to see the magic system, and hell, the politics, the entire universe, recreated with consistency, or investigated in-universe and imbued with some consistency retroactively. Seeing what kinds of consistency we could create out of the smouldering trash heap of a universe that Rowling put onto paper. But nope! "gently caress u!" says Yud.
trap sprung, but this is the fanfic you want for that
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"Well, the wand move's simple enough " Flamel ran through it slowly "but it's a little tricky" he tapped his wand on his head "on the inside. What if you were to point your wand up and do accio sun?"
"Sounds dangerous," said Harry
"It doesn't work. Personally I tried it thinking I'd be dragged into the sky because relative masses, but no, nothing. You can't accio things you don't conceptualise correctly, you can't accio things that you can't fundamentally have. Consensus, I think we agreed to call it. Who'd respect your right to own the sun? Who'd believe you if you claimed it? The moon, mountains, same thing. Once you get down to things like bridges it gets a bit iffy you might be able to vandalise a bridge if you were puissant enough." He looked around at the largely empty room, and settled on the fireplace. "If you want a challenge, try accio smoke. Smoke, it's like the sun but it's a little different, see if you can imagine your way into possession of smoke."
Harry waved the motion a few times, and made a few corrections to the shape, and then waved it a few more times, and then waved it again
Accio smoke, " said Harry.
Nothing happened, and then happened again the second time.
Harry paused, twirling the wand between his fingers. There was a long pause, and then he said, "Oh. Accio smoke!"
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Total success was not in fact such a wonderful thing on the whole, and they had to rather quickly fall back into the other room, and Flamel had to toss off a couple of evanescos the second for the ash all over the floor and then a few more charms on account of the smell and the (surprisingly not immediately obvious) fact that the carpet was on fire, as were the drapes.
All the drapes.
"Not bad," coughed Flamel, after the last reparo. "Wasn't expecting you to succeed, really, not without advice how'd you manage it?"
"I thought about filtered cigarettes."
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- Tunicate
- May 15, 2012
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Absolutely, and it's interesting you put "we" instead of "one". One of the idiosyncratic things about Yudkowsky, among the many, is that by never reading beyond the 3rd or 4th book he got to experience the latter half of the series this way through fanfiction. And it was the first pop literary hit of the internet age that could facilitate experiencing a work that way.
eh, ranma fandom was like that
also IIRC yud didn't read any of the books
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