I just reread this bit, while Harry and Quirrel are discussing where to hide things:
Or ideally you would launch it into space, with a cloak against detection, and a randomly fluctuating acceleration factor that would take it out of the Solar System.
I just noticed that this could be the in-world cause of the Cvbarre Rssrpg.
This point has been independently worked out by a few people. I think there have been at least two threads on that subject (a while ago I posted the same thing and someone pointed then to a prior thread discussing the same idea).
Can you repeat the explanation, or point me to the link? I was pretty sure I wasn’t the first person to see that question, but I didn’t know it’d been Jossed. I wouldn’t mind an explanation of McGonagall’s Presbyterian upbringing either.
The Cvbarre Nabznyl has been explained in real life
(although according to the relevant Wikipedia entry, this
explanation has not yet been universally accepted).
Pottermore revealed that Minerva McGonagall’s father was a Presbyterian minister, who kinda freaked out when he learned about magic. McGonagall in canon, therefore, was raised knowing perfectly well about Muggles; she wasn’t a pureblood raised in the wizard world as MoR depicts.
So what I meant was that given that there’s absolutely no way to write himself out of getting McGonagall’s backstory wrong, I am perfectly content for Eliezer to not attempt to write himself out of this far subtler discrepancy from reality.
I just reread this bit, while Harry and Quirrel are discussing where to hide things:
I just noticed that this could be the in-world cause of the Cvbarre Rssrpg.
This point has been independently worked out by a few people. I think there have been at least two threads on that subject (a while ago I posted the same thing and someone pointed then to a prior thread discussing the same idea).
Unfortunately, the Cvbarre Rssrpg was recently explained. But then, McGonagall’s Presbyterian upbringing was recently explained, as well.
Can you repeat the explanation, or point me to the link? I was pretty sure I wasn’t the first person to see that question, but I didn’t know it’d been Jossed. I wouldn’t mind an explanation of McGonagall’s Presbyterian upbringing either.
The Cvbarre Nabznyl has been explained in real life (although according to the relevant Wikipedia entry, this explanation has not yet been universally accepted).
I don’t know about the McGonagall thing.
Cool! Thanks for the link.
Pottermore revealed that Minerva McGonagall’s father was a Presbyterian minister, who kinda freaked out when he learned about magic. McGonagall in canon, therefore, was raised knowing perfectly well about Muggles; she wasn’t a pureblood raised in the wizard world as MoR depicts.
So what I meant was that given that there’s absolutely no way to write himself out of getting McGonagall’s backstory wrong, I am perfectly content for Eliezer to not attempt to write himself out of this far subtler discrepancy from reality.