RagingPhoenix
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I chose castle in that one but still got Slytherin. Not complaining tho as its the only proper house.
So Hufflepuff is CLEARLY the best house...
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I chose castle in that one but still got Slytherin. Not complaining tho as its the only proper house.
The ending leaves some threads dangling, but on the whole I found it very satisfying, yes. It even retroactively solved a few problems I had with some of the early parts of the story.
Right on!
The Artisan
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i guess that's what the sorting hat's job was. a mental personality test. literally.
DrForester
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Listen to the audiobooks. Stephen Fry does the UK ones.
This is very true. The Harry Potter books are just filled with a thousand different hidden implications to pore over and wonder about. It's key to its enduring popularity.
The Artisan
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don't get what that has to do with anything, but that is pretty cool.
The Real Abed
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I was wondering myself for a while. I know early on in the series they explain that computers and technology wouldn't work in Hogwarts because of "all the magic in the air" and I can see that since Hogwarts is filled with more magic than the amount of wireless signals in the current Muggle world.
But how much magic would be too much magic for a magic household? Harry has played Dudley's PC a few times and probably his PlayStation and maybe phone and TV and all other electronic devices, but he's just a small boy. So I assume that's not too much. And it's also a Muggle household. But would any of that stuff work at all in, say, the Burrow? Or another regular magic household? I'd hate to not be able to use electronics. Even if I was a Wizard I'd be bored without internet in this day and age.
I guess it would depend on what exactly you're trying to "Alohomora".
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The Real Abed
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Heh. I never noticed what book he was reading.Science Wizard needs his own book.
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Science Wizard needs his own book.
Yeah I was laughing when I saw this. I think they redid the joke somewhere in the movie again.
I rationalize it as "magic works on objects at the time when magic was made". Like transfiguration wouldn't work on modern equipment since when magic was made it didn't think of that as existing. It also gives reason as to why Muggle Mysteries exist.
It's why I question how a steam train exists in HP since the setting screams of medieval for the magical folk.
googleplex
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I have never read a story before where I have so hated the main protagonist. And I mean "hate" as in I was actively hoping someone would just kill Harry and be done with it. In that fic, Harry Potter isn't just out of character. He is the most prestigious, egotistical, self-righteous little shit ever. Everyone and everything in that story just serves to illustrate how smart, talented and awesome he is. And how dumb and out of step everyone else is.
Despite how well written it's is, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality embodies the every worst aspectsof the self-incert Mary Sue Fanfiction.
War Peaceman
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I've never read this Rationality thing, but Harry Potter is already a dislikeable guy. Especially in book 5(if memory serves) he is a total douche. He treats Dean Thomas like shit, for example.
James Potter was even worse. What a shitty family.
While it didn't make me angry I really dislike. I held out for a few chapters to try and see if I was going to get it, but it is so self indulgent, I couldn't stand it. At the very least I found it extremely obnoxious and elitist.
Alx
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Yeah definitely, when reading the book I spent most of my time thinking how annoying he was ; and most of his issues would have been solved if he had talked about them to his friends or Dumbledore.
But then he's a teenager, he's meant to be stupid.
He's reading Hawking for the comedy value. Hawking is attempting to explain the universe, but as a Muggle he's ignorant of a major force in the universe, which means that he's overlooking some painfully obvious (to a Wizard) answers, and inventing an unending stream of bullshit theoretical pseudoscience to fill the gaps in his understanding. It's like watching someone spend six hours trying to explain why Super Castlevania 4 is the greatest game that Capcom has ever made.
Also, it's not wandless magic if the spoon is enchanted (it came with his drink, so it's literally a stirring-spoon). Same with the guy cleaning the table behind him. He's using a cloth to clean the table, and he wraps up a used bottle, and the bottle disappears into the cloth. If that's a specially-enchanted cleaning cloth, then that's not wandless magic.
I gather it would, if you pointed it at the mechanical part that actually unlocks whatever door you are trying to unlock.
Will not work to unlock your iphone, tho.
As you advance in the story, you see how much that Harry super fucks up.
He is smarter than canon Harry, yes, but this gives him the ability to really make a big mess out of things.
Let me guess, you're a snape fan.
FortuneFaded
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Even Harry is a Snape fan.
Actually, he might just have enchanted the spoon to follow movement which is slightly less impressive.
Also, a lot more work than just fucking using the spoon directly.
Apparently a large part of Wizard society (the regular folk, the ones who aren't like Harry and Voldemort) enjoys doing nonsensical things with magic because they can.
Regardless of whether it's wandless magic or an enchanted spoon (
or a VFX artist
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Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's also, as you probably can imagine, a really long excuse to write Harry-Hermione slashfic shit.
Science Wizard needs his own book.
I love that every time this gif is posted somewhere people somehow fail to realize he's doing wandless magic.
Edit: Derp i just realized someone did notice it, but still it's curious to me since i have seen it around the web many times.
Im not sure how people go reading things like this without expecting this, i mean, the story just by the title and premise basically screams "I took this universe and turned it into something hilariously completely different, but i need the fandom appeal to get readers!"
Sequence Six
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Am I the only one who, while reading the books, never thought that Harry and Hermione were going to be a thing?
No. I never thought so, too.
Naw man, Harry is legitimately an insufferable prick in OotP. He gets better though.
there is one section where it's really bad, and the author is obviously just using harry as a mouthpiece to spew out nearly r/atheism levels of dialogue, but the author fixes it up and really hammers in by the end that even though Harry has lots of knowledge, he's still just an incredibly stupid 11 year old who thinks he's cleverer than he is
I don't know if this is a spoilery question, but how is it a slashfic if it's Harry-Hermione? I thought slash was male-male, and femslash was female-female.
Slash just means shipping 2 characters.
Term comes from writing it like this: Harry/Hermione.
Nowadays kiddos write it like HarryxHermione.
Harry was a 15 year old kid who'd, not too long ago, witnessed the murder of hos classmate/friend, due in no small part to his association with Harry, by the man who had murdered his parents and was now back at full strength. And who was now being ignored or kept at arm's length by people he considered his friends or expected to help him.
Slashfic started with Kirk/Spock, and it literally meant "shipping", but it was overwhelmingly used for gay shipping, so it picked up that meaning.
Harry/Hermione is just shipping.
This was my understanding as well aside from the historical explanation, though I'm not a fan fiction term expert.
Ah okay.
Gotta hand it to star trek, so many fandom terms coined by them, they even were the first ones to come up with a dumb name for themselves!
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I rationalize that magic works on objects that were made when said magic was conceived.
maniac-kun
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Why not use the imperius curse on a muggle bilionaire and tell him to gift you half his money. And let the bilionaire claim he donated it for some cause.
War Peaceman
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No he's a dick #teamFirenze
Neither did I.
JK Rowling has said though that she may have written the ending differently (and paired Harry with Hermione instead) had she been less focused on "wish fulfilment":
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/02/jk-rowling-hermione-harry-ron-married
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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I think it came across as Harry going with hermione, which seems a bit obvious, but she hints at Ron and Hermione from the chamber of secrets.
The Baker Street Irregulars beg to differ, sir!
Jorok Goldblade
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Thematically, Harry and Ginny makes more sense. Harry finally gets the close, loving family he always wanted by marrying into the Weasley family.
War Peaceman
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Agreed. Ginny is a weak character though.
I never ever saw Harry and Hermione as a couple. The antagonistic Ron-Hermione relationship was far more likely to result in relationship. Everyone knows Padma or was it Parvati was the Hogwarts hotty though.
Ganzlinger
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I also never thought that. And I actually thought that Harry and Ginny were done after Chamber of Secrets.. lol
DrForester
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Ginny also seems a better fit for Harry. Talented and an athlete. They seem to have a whole lot more in common than Harry and Hermione.
War Peaceman
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It definitely seemed like it was heading that way at one point. Though it felt like her role petered out in the novels.
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