“The adult wizard” was changed quite a while before the most recent round of retcons. Most of the other changes I can understand, even the removal of Ghostbusters, but this one seems completely indefensible. He’s listing species that are dangerous, so it makes more sense to use a biology-type word like “adult”.
And as Quirrell is perfectly open later on in telling everyone that he believes Harry wishes to become a Dark Lord, and also that he still wishes to teach Harry how to defeat his foes, there’s no reason for him to put on false airs and claim that all the students present will have Dark Wizards as their enemies. He even took “Defense Against Dark” out of the class’s name for crying out loud!
If you can understand the removal of Ghostbusters, please explain it to me. There’s nothing entertaining about that part of the chapter any more.
I mean, I do know that some people in the reviews were unhappy with how ‘now it’s a songfic’, but others liked it—I certainly did, it was funny to imagine—and at least the scene made sense. While now you have people just shouting Harry Potter! out of the blue, and basically everything happening and everyone reacting exactly as before for little apparent reason.
I agree that the new scene seems very awkward, though I’m not sure whether I would have thought so if I weren’t already familiar with the old version.
Eliezer has said that some people would have “massively bad associations” to songs in fanfics. I don’t read fan fiction in general, so I have no idea what he’s specifically referring to. But, err, given the interactions I’ve had with fandom people, I can definitely imagine them being utterly unable to see past their preconceived notions and snap judgments to logically evaluate a given scene on its own merits and subtleties.
Yeah, I’d really like to know Eliezer’s reasoning here. What are the possible advantages of this change?
I suppose it is technically more accurate, since not all adult wizards are more dangerous than Dementors or Trolls. Dark Wizards, on the other hand, specifically train to be so.
Pox on ninja edits. I liked the Ghostbusters’ song. :(
And I liked it when Quirrel said the single most dangerous monster in all the world was “The adult wizard”.
Wonder how many more happened that I haven’t noticed yet.
“The adult wizard” was changed quite a while before the most recent round of retcons. Most of the other changes I can understand, even the removal of Ghostbusters, but this one seems completely indefensible. He’s listing species that are dangerous, so it makes more sense to use a biology-type word like “adult”.
And as Quirrell is perfectly open later on in telling everyone that he believes Harry wishes to become a Dark Lord, and also that he still wishes to teach Harry how to defeat his foes, there’s no reason for him to put on false airs and claim that all the students present will have Dark Wizards as their enemies. He even took “Defense Against Dark” out of the class’s name for crying out loud!
If you can understand the removal of Ghostbusters, please explain it to me. There’s nothing entertaining about that part of the chapter any more.
I mean, I do know that some people in the reviews were unhappy with how ‘now it’s a songfic’, but others liked it—I certainly did, it was funny to imagine—and at least the scene made sense. While now you have people just shouting Harry Potter! out of the blue, and basically everything happening and everyone reacting exactly as before for little apparent reason.
I agree that the new scene seems very awkward, though I’m not sure whether I would have thought so if I weren’t already familiar with the old version.
Eliezer has said that some people would have “massively bad associations” to songs in fanfics. I don’t read fan fiction in general, so I have no idea what he’s specifically referring to. But, err, given the interactions I’ve had with fandom people, I can definitely imagine them being utterly unable to see past their preconceived notions and snap judgments to logically evaluate a given scene on its own merits and subtleties.
He got a LOT of complaints in the reviews about the Ghostbusters song.
Yeah, I’d really like to know Eliezer’s reasoning here. What are the possible advantages of this change?
I suppose it is technically more accurate, since not all adult wizards are more dangerous than Dementors or Trolls. Dark Wizards, on the other hand, specifically train to be so.