I’d like to “Hold Off on Proposing Solutions” or in this case hold off on advocating answers. I don’t have time to list all the important bits of data we should be considering or enumerate all the current hypotheses, but I think both would be quite valuable.
Some quick hypothesis:
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Quirrellmort & responsible for Hermione’s ‘condition’
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Lucious & responsible for Hermione’s ‘condition’
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Voldemort, but not the Quirrell body.
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Quirrellmort and trying to take out Hermione as Harry’s good side anchor.
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is NOT Quirrellmort.
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Grindelwald
-Author has made massive continuity alterations many of which are unclear thus it follows that relying on continuity is difficult at best. This most severely impacts character personalities and motivations.
Some quick puzzle bits :
-Hermione thinks Draco and Snape are doing / plotting something evil and hates Draco.
-Hermione was subject to a “Groundhog Day Attack” (I’m not even sure what this in the context of this story).
-Hermione’s tone of voice was all satisfaction just before being arrested for allegedly trying to kill Draco.
-Draco has no idea what’s going on.
-Hermione defeated Draco’s spell which was supposed to be extremely hard to do.
-Black Hat and Cloak did something to Hermione’s mind / memory.
-Prof. Q. has some major plotting going.
-Prof. Q.’s goals are not very clear, but his speech in the dinning hall may have shed some light on it and is consistent w/ convo’s w/ Harry.
-Author went out of his way to ‘rationalize’ how Harry didn’t go talk to Hermione. Not entirely clear that’s consistent w/ Harry or Hermione.
-Hermione was subject to a “Groundhog Day Attack” (I’m not even sure what this in the context of this story).
The movie ‘Groundhog Day’ is about a man who relives the same day over and over again repeatedly. Because the day is reset, he is able to re-play each interaction with any person repeatedly until he can convince them of whatever he wants or work around them. Eg, he finds the hottest woman in town. The first day, he hits on her and is shot down but learns of her highschool. The second day, he says ‘hey, didn’t we go to highschool together at...?’ He is quickly shot down again, but gets more information to keep the conversation longer. This repeats until he eventually gets her to have sex with him.
In chapter 77, H&C performs a similar hack. He tries to convince her, then obliviates her memory and uses his gained information to convince her even more, etc. Instead of resetting the day, he is resetting her mind back again and again. After enough iterations, he’ll know exactly the right things to say to convince her to do whatever it is he wishes. As hinted in Chapter 77, what we viewed was not the first nor the last iteration of the attack.
If he is not constrained by ethics, he can also conveniently erase earlier memories of Hermione, if he suspects it would help to persuade her to do what he wants.
Effect—Dark!Hermione or at least different than she was before.
-Hermione’s tone of voice was all satisfaction just before being arrested for allegedly trying to kill Draco.
I completely read her tone of voice as “in shock and brain is stuck.” Very much like Buffy after the 6:30min mark in The Body. Telling the paramedics “Good luck”, cleaning up the vomit, etc.
I’d like to “Hold Off on Proposing Solutions” or in this case hold off on advocating answers. I don’t have time to list all the important bits of data we should be considering or enumerate all the current hypotheses, but I think both would be quite valuable.
Some quick hypothesis:
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Quirrellmort & responsible for Hermione’s ‘condition’
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Lucious & responsible for Hermione’s ‘condition’
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Voldemort, but not the Quirrell body.
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Quirrellmort and trying to take out Hermione as Harry’s good side anchor.
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is NOT Quirrellmort.
-Mr. Hat & Cloak is Grindelwald
-Author has made massive continuity alterations many of which are unclear thus it follows that relying on continuity is difficult at best. This most severely impacts character personalities and motivations.
Some quick puzzle bits :
-Hermione thinks Draco and Snape are doing / plotting something evil and hates Draco.
-Hermione was subject to a “Groundhog Day Attack” (I’m not even sure what this in the context of this story).
-Hermione’s tone of voice was all satisfaction just before being arrested for allegedly trying to kill Draco.
-Draco has no idea what’s going on.
-Hermione defeated Draco’s spell which was supposed to be extremely hard to do.
-Black Hat and Cloak did something to Hermione’s mind / memory.
-Prof. Q. has some major plotting going.
-Prof. Q.’s goals are not very clear, but his speech in the dinning hall may have shed some light on it and is consistent w/ convo’s w/ Harry.
-Author went out of his way to ‘rationalize’ how Harry didn’t go talk to Hermione. Not entirely clear that’s consistent w/ Harry or Hermione.
Okay, that’s all I’ve got time for...
The movie ‘Groundhog Day’ is about a man who relives the same day over and over again repeatedly. Because the day is reset, he is able to re-play each interaction with any person repeatedly until he can convince them of whatever he wants or work around them. Eg, he finds the hottest woman in town. The first day, he hits on her and is shot down but learns of her highschool. The second day, he says ‘hey, didn’t we go to highschool together at...?’ He is quickly shot down again, but gets more information to keep the conversation longer. This repeats until he eventually gets her to have sex with him.
In chapter 77, H&C performs a similar hack. He tries to convince her, then obliviates her memory and uses his gained information to convince her even more, etc. Instead of resetting the day, he is resetting her mind back again and again. After enough iterations, he’ll know exactly the right things to say to convince her to do whatever it is he wishes. As hinted in Chapter 77, what we viewed was not the first nor the last iteration of the attack.
If he is not constrained by ethics, he can also conveniently erase earlier memories of Hermione, if he suspects it would help to persuade her to do what he wants.
Effect—Dark!Hermione or at least different than she was before.
I completely read her tone of voice as “in shock and brain is stuck.” Very much like Buffy after the 6:30min mark in The Body. Telling the paramedics “Good luck”, cleaning up the vomit, etc.
Anyone going to explain this? Sounds important, but I have no idea what it’s referring to.
Edit: The groundhog day attack has been rewritten.