It struck me last night that, if you really wanted to get good predictions on what will happen in the rest of the story, you can just reread the whole thing, look for any potential plot devices that haven’t already been triggered in some central way, and figure out how those things might be used. There’s not a lot of story left; Eliezer said this arc, a couple of intermediate chapters, and one final plot arc.
I haven’t got the time to do this myself, but it seems doable. If you want to really solve everything, set up a collaborative spreadsheet or something, and start hacking away. :)
I’m doing this right now, and strongly recommend it, partly because Eliezer has made moderately large revisions to the story that are worth reading. I was ambivalent about some of the changes at first, but on reflection I heartily approve of all of them.
The current arc is the second-to-last major arc of HPMOR (though there should
be a couple of one-shot updates between the end of this arc, and the final
arc).
It struck me last night that, if you really wanted to get good predictions on what will happen in the rest of the story, you can just reread the whole thing, look for any potential plot devices that haven’t already been triggered in some central way, and figure out how those things might be used. There’s not a lot of story left; Eliezer said this arc, a couple of intermediate chapters, and one final plot arc.
I haven’t got the time to do this myself, but it seems doable. If you want to really solve everything, set up a collaborative spreadsheet or something, and start hacking away. :)
I’m doing this right now, and strongly recommend it, partly because Eliezer has made moderately large revisions to the story that are worth reading. I was ambivalent about some of the changes at first, but on reflection I heartily approve of all of them.
Ooh, can you linky me to where he said that? Cheers :)
Author’s Notes for Chapter 94:
aha, thanks!