And I think that would make Blaise the quadruple agent, with Dumbledore as the fourth faction, and Quirrell aware of the entire thing, masterminding his own little stanford prison experiment in order to achieve whatever ends he’s ultimately aiming for.
It was interesting to see how deeply Harry got into his “General Chaos” role in this light. (Also, I think Ch. 32 was the first time I’ve laughed out loud over the story in a while. It was getting pretty serious and this was way more fun. The “vader/emperor voices”… I was busting up! I think this kind of hilarity at the beginning is part of why the story took off the way it did.)
Plotwise, I’ve been wondering lately if Eliezer might be laying the groundwork for Voldemort to turn out to actually be the good guy and maybe Harry’s true challenge as a protagonist will be to recognize that rationalist!Voldemort will actually turn out to be good for the world, and deserves to be supported. I could image the army lessons turning out to have a positive global outcome if they ended in the right way, which would add a bit of support to this theory.
Plotwise, I’ve been wondering lately if Eliezer might be laying the groundwork for Voldemort to turn out to actually be the good guy and maybe Harry’s true challenge as a protagonist will be to recognize that rationalist!Voldemort will actually turn out to be good for the world, and deserves to be supported.
(There are some traces of that story in MoR—Harry early on not engaging in moral relativism is similar to the hero’s final understanding of the evil of the status quo of the fantasy world. But ultimately I think Quirrelmort will be evil. Voldemort killing the entire dojo and sparing only his friend is a mortal sin and Quirrel does not exhibit the kind of heroic remorse necessary to make up for mass & serial murder. Which reminds me, we don’t know who Voldemort killed to get the Horcrux on Pioneer. A security guard, probably.)
And I think that would make Blaise the quadruple agent, with Dumbledore as the fourth faction, and Quirrell aware of the entire thing, masterminding his own little stanford prison experiment in order to achieve whatever ends he’s ultimately aiming for.
It was interesting to see how deeply Harry got into his “General Chaos” role in this light. (Also, I think Ch. 32 was the first time I’ve laughed out loud over the story in a while. It was getting pretty serious and this was way more fun. The “vader/emperor voices”… I was busting up! I think this kind of hilarity at the beginning is part of why the story took off the way it did.)
Plotwise, I’ve been wondering lately if Eliezer might be laying the groundwork for Voldemort to turn out to actually be the good guy and maybe Harry’s true challenge as a protagonist will be to recognize that rationalist!Voldemort will actually turn out to be good for the world, and deserves to be supported. I could image the army lessons turning out to have a positive global outcome if they ended in the right way, which would add a bit of support to this theory.
This is how one of Eliezer’s early stories turned out: “The Sword of Good”.
(There are some traces of that story in MoR—Harry early on not engaging in moral relativism is similar to the hero’s final understanding of the evil of the status quo of the fantasy world. But ultimately I think Quirrelmort will be evil. Voldemort killing the entire dojo and sparing only his friend is a mortal sin and Quirrel does not exhibit the kind of heroic remorse necessary to make up for mass & serial murder. Which reminds me, we don’t know who Voldemort killed to get the Horcrux on Pioneer. A security guard, probably.)