Since I don’t anticipate getting a chance to point it out inside the fic itself, and the hint is unreasonably subtle:
When Hermione woke the third time (though it felt like she’d only closed her eyes for a moment) the Sun was even lower in the sky, almost fully set. She felt a little more alive and, strangely, even more exhausted. This time it was Professor Flitwick who was standing next to her bed and shaking her shoulder, a tray of steaming food floating next to him. For some reason she’d thought Harry Potter ought to be leaning over her bedside, but he wasn’t there. Had she dreamed that? She couldn’t remember dreaming.
Harry didn’t think of it instantly, but given a little time...
Possibly a rubbish first post, but this highlight draws attention to something rather misleading: she was more exhausted? Reading that originally rang bells in my head at the same pitch as Hermione being memory-charmed. Then, I played with the idea that Harry taught her the True Patronus then obliviated her, for all of two seconds.
Mind circles.
Since I don’t anticipate getting a chance to point it out inside the fic itself, and the hint is unreasonably subtle:
Harry didn’t think of it instantly, but given a little time...
Possibly a rubbish first post, but this highlight draws attention to something rather misleading: she was more exhausted? Reading that originally rang bells in my head at the same pitch as Hermione being memory-charmed. Then, I played with the idea that Harry taught her the True Patronus then obliviated her, for all of two seconds. Mind circles.
Seeing this before the parent, I thought you meant kissing, which worked on Harry when he was demented, and references fairy tales.
Disclaimer: Terrible omake ahead.
Isn’t Hermione a little young for that? And how could she manage to obliviate Harry’s patronus afterwards?
Why on earth is this in the negative? We downvote bad jokes now?
As one of the downvoters, haven’t we always downvoted bad jokes?
This was a bad joke, not in the sense of inappropriateness (a similar but better joke at http://lesswrong.com/lw/ams/harry_potter_and_the_methods_of_rationality/61ew was heavily upvoted), but in the sense of being strained, weak, and largely unfunny.
Thank you, by the way.
Somehow I haven’t seen that happen in the ~3 months I’ve been here.
I’ll take your word for it, though.
I’ve been here since the beginning, and yes, good jokes get upvoted, bad jokes get downvoted. ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are of course highly subjective.
Things with negative karma get downvoted even more. You hadn’t noticed?
Edit: perhaps not. It actually took longer to go from −2 to −3 than 0 to −2. I think we need more data points.