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Man, I remember getting linked to this and reading the first few chapters and enjoying the clearly deliberately exaggerated and self-aware Harry who was totally only that way as an excuse for a bit of light-hearted fun-poking at some of the more arbitrary things in Harry Potter and some of the tropes it inherited from being a school story. I was quite surprised by what happened next.
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pwnyXpress posted:The author is definitely having a wank, but it isn't that awful. Suspend your disbelief a bit and its much more enjoyable. It's really easy to do this when you've got no idea who Less Wrong is, and then it's just "hey, it's to serve the purpose of poking a bit of fun at the bits of Harry Potter we usually just gloss over for the sake of the story, of course he needs to be a ridiculous smart-alec, I can roll with this".
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Feb 26, 2015 22:12
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These next bits, while Yud's mostly content to poke good-natured fun at how Hogwarts works, and mostly keeps MY EPIC FANFIC PLOT and MY GLORIOUS BAYESIAN THEOREMS on the back burner, are probably the high point.
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Apr 29, 2015 19:57
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divabot posted:I just read The Disaster Artist, actually. Fantastic book, I recommend it to all of you; everyone's dealt with a fucker like this. The story of Raphael Smadja and his Giggle Tent is worth the price of admission all on its own, folks. Don't miss it.
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Jun 27, 2015 18:53
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Not knowing a drat thing about who Yud was, I was still charitably thinking "yeah, he's poking fun at things like the wizard duel in the first book and the incredibly dangerous magic they get taught even from first year." The high point for me is just round the corner, and I'm interested to see how it reads now I know who he is.
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Oct 25, 2015 16:19
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JosephWongKS posted:Is this because of the girls wearing skirts? Why doesn’t Hogwarts have sufficient wealth and resources to issue pants to the girls? One of the things that irritated me a great deal about the films is how they completely chickened out of one of my favourite details about Hogwarts and the wizarding world in general; witches and wizards wear robes, not Muggle clothes. (This is why Levicorpus is such an evil little spell.)
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Oct 28, 2015 14:15
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Mazerunner posted:I guess for a recommendation of my own, this one's kind of, sort of, not really-at-all similar to Arithmancy in the vein of 'getting the most from your magic' in a completely non-serious, absurd way- Harry the Hufflepuff This is absolutely hilarious and everyone should read it.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:23
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You're analysing this waaaay too deeply, this is just a bit of good old-fashioned poking fun at the concept of there being a jinx on the DADA teacher for decades but nobody's tried to do anything about it, and then following the logic of that situation a little further than the author intended. It's the sort of thing that's easily forgiven if you think you're reading a silly light-hearted comedy knockabout.
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Nov 20, 2015 11:18
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quote:"Good luck!" squeaked Professor Flitwick, and leaned over to the gargoyle and said something that Harry somehow failed to hear at all. (Of course, the password wouldn't be much good if you could hear someone saying it.) If only Gay Black Yudhitler had just stuck to doing this sort of thing, this'd all be a nice, fun, (short!), good-spirited, readable exercise. C'est l'internet.
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Nov 26, 2015 04:00
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Here's an audio version of one of those five-star reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0B9Fc6LgMo
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Jan 30, 2016 13:23
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I still enjoy the bit where Harry encounters Snape for the first time. It's all downhill from there.
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Mar 9, 2016 09:56
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Because if he doesn't speak up, he can't take the piss out of the whole concept of Snape
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YaketySass posted:Is it even legal to sell copies of this thing? The person distributing these booby prizes appears to be Russian, and will be distributing them to people at events either held in Russia or with a significant Russian entry. By Western standards, Russia plays notoriously fast and loose with copyright law and derivative works, as demonstrated by things like Tanya Grotter and The Last Ringbearer.
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