Well, I meant the question as a question, not as a rhetorical statement. That aside, I do think it’s possible to be affected by the tendency to admire what appears currently to be the winning team even if I suspect, or even believe, that they will eventually lose. Human knowledge is rarely well-integrated. That aside, I haven’t read HP:MOR in a very long time, so any estimates of who wins I make would be way obsolete. I don’t even quite know what Quirrell/Voldemort’s “win conditions” are. So I have no idea what can happen if he does. That said, I vaguely recall EY making statements about writing Quirrell that I took at the time to mean that EY is buying into the sorts of narrative conventions that require Quirrell to not win (though not necessarily to lose).
Well, I meant the question as a question, not as a rhetorical statement.
That aside, I do think it’s possible to be affected by the tendency to admire what appears currently to be the winning team even if I suspect, or even believe, that they will eventually lose. Human knowledge is rarely well-integrated.
That aside, I haven’t read HP:MOR in a very long time, so any estimates of who wins I make would be way obsolete. I don’t even quite know what Quirrell/Voldemort’s “win conditions” are. So I have no idea what can happen if he does.
That said, I vaguely recall EY making statements about writing Quirrell that I took at the time to mean that EY is buying into the sorts of narrative conventions that require Quirrell to not win (though not necessarily to lose).