It’s not going to happen. You don’t hang that much drama on an event if you intend to reverse it quickly, unless you’re going for comedy, and comedy doesn’t make sense in this context.
That said, if you’d asked me a day ago I would have said that there are too many dangling plot threads surrounding her for the story to do what it just did, so it’s probably a good idea to adjust your confidence of predictions based on narrative mechanics appropriately.
Like I said, very low odds. But Eliezer is a clever guy, he could plausibly figure out some way of bringing her back without tripping off too many narrative bullshit detectors.
It sounds like you might be mistaking Eliezer’s role in this, and mistaking your desires for desires we can reasonably assign to Eliezer.
This isn’t something that happened to the HP&tMoR version of Hermione Granger, this is something that Eliezer, the author did to the HP&tMoR version of Hermione Granger.
He did it for a reason. He’s almost certainly been planning it all along. If it made him sad then it first made him sad quite some time ago. He’s not feeling the surprised dismay you have today.
He wanted the words written on the page to be written on the page, yes. That does not, strictly speaking, mean that he wants Hermione to be dead. He’s been known to play with our expectations before, after all.
Edit: To clarify, this is almost certainly wishful thinking talking, and I acknowledge that. But a guy can dream.
Harry would learn whatever he had to learn, invent whatever he had to invent, rip the knowledge of Salazar Slytherin from the Dark Lord’s mind, discover the secret of Atlantis, open any gates or break any seals necessary, find his way to the root of all magic and reprogram it. He would rip apart the foundations of reality itself to get Hermione Granger back.
And now...well, I think the odds are below 1%. There’s no elegant way to walk that back.
It’s not going to happen. You don’t hang that much drama on an event if you intend to reverse it quickly, unless you’re going for comedy, and comedy doesn’t make sense in this context.
That said, if you’d asked me a day ago I would have said that there are too many dangling plot threads surrounding her for the story to do what it just did, so it’s probably a good idea to adjust your confidence of predictions based on narrative mechanics appropriately.
Like I said, very low odds. But Eliezer is a clever guy, he could plausibly figure out some way of bringing her back without tripping off too many narrative bullshit detectors.
It sounds like you might be mistaking Eliezer’s role in this, and mistaking your desires for desires we can reasonably assign to Eliezer.
This isn’t something that happened to the HP&tMoR version of Hermione Granger, this is something that Eliezer, the author did to the HP&tMoR version of Hermione Granger.
He did it for a reason. He’s almost certainly been planning it all along. If it made him sad then it first made him sad quite some time ago. He’s not feeling the surprised dismay you have today.
He wanted this.
He wanted the words written on the page to be written on the page, yes. That does not, strictly speaking, mean that he wants Hermione to be dead. He’s been known to play with our expectations before, after all.
Edit: To clarify, this is almost certainly wishful thinking talking, and I acknowledge that. But a guy can dream.
Edit: I just reread
And now...well, I think the odds are below 1%. There’s no elegant way to walk that back.