I suspect I’m spoiling the in-joke here, but is that a literal in-story thing, or just a fan joke? Honestly, it’s getting hard to tell sometimes.
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Hermione needed them immediately, due to fears of Transfiguration sickness. Voldemort did not.
He presumably planned on killing Harry, or just Apparating somewhere and killing a random person.
Is poison really a good attack against someone who holds the Philosopher’s Stone?
Presumably that they’re equal but opposite.
Worth noting—it is immediately after that laughter that he gives over his father’s rock. And given that this chapter comments on how Dumbledore has access to wacky divination, that rock starts to make a heck of a lot more sense. (I mean, we always knew it’s be an Important Quest Item, but this does shed a bit of light on why)
Too time-sensitive, I suspect.
Both are withdrawn from circulation as they decay, and if they don’t decay they’ll stick around for a while. As it gets old enough, it’ll get picked up by a collector of some sort, who will keep it better-preserved and think nothing of its long lifespan. (This does, however, limit the amount of possessing it can do)
Better idea: Door handles.
Good call—I only double-checked 108. That makes my theory far less likely.
I will point out, one per 500 comments was the old system. There was ~30 threads for the first ~100 chapters.
Is he? I don’t recall any such line in this chapter. I mean, it’s probably something he’s taken precautions against, but it’s hard to be sure(unless I missed something).
Except that magical power has already been established to be genetic. The Potterverse doesn’t have Wheel of Time-style shields or cutting people off from their magic, to the best of my knowledge.
He managed to last a year.
Crazy theory: Voldy resurrects Hermione to keep his promise, then kills Harry. Hermione then drops Voldy somehow, and resurrects Harry using the same means that were used on her.
Additional crazy theory: The method for doing both will be the Philosopher’s Stone. She will transmute Voldemort into something mortal-but-inert—a bristlecone pine, perhaps.
Yeah, that. There’s no way of getting money that’s so ugly that some poor, desperate person somewhere won’t try.
Only if the ability to lie to Harry Potter is more valuable than having a clearly-functioning mind that accurately represents the real world.
Canon!Voldemort, maybe. MoR!Voldemort, not a chance.
Is a sheet of carbon nanotube so thin that it’s invisible actually going to stop a bullet? And even if it does, once Quirrell realizes what happened, what are the odds Harry can keep such a wall up for more than three tenths of a second?
In canon, Harry has also resisted even scarier magic cast by Voldemort.
It allows for honesty in Parseltongue when hinting at his plan earlier.