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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Let's Read: "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"
 
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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Qwertycoatl posted:

It kind of turns into that kind of story as the books go on, mostly to its detriment.

Voldemort fails to kill Harry as a baby in the first book because Harry is protected by his mother's love.

Voldemort fails to kill Harry in the last book because Voldemort thinks he became master of the Elder Wand by defeating Dumbledore, but he doesn't realise that technically it was Malfoy who defeated Dumbledore and Harry defeated Malfoy.

The thing is, as far as I know "wand allegiance" didn't exist at all until the last book and there's no evidence of it being a thing in any previous fight. I'm pretty sure it was invented on the spot.

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