For that matter, why didn’t Dumbledore mention the Imperius debt when they were talking about debts?
Dumbledore’s being awfully incompetent… Wonder why that would be.
For that matter, why didn’t Dumbledore mention the Imperius debt when they were talking about debts?
Dumbledore’s being awfully incompetent… Wonder why that would be.
He didn’t marry Hermione.
Kindle StoreIf you had to look on the internet for all your original fiction, you’d have the same problem.
Or so I heard, at least.
… Now I want a Death Note fanfic where Ryuk is a Totoro.
Or just that he’s pissed with Harry for putting himself in Malfoy’s debt.
Or for painting a giant bulls-eye on himself.
The icy glare could really mean anything.
Many thanks.
Self-Actualization.
Well, Sturgeon’s Law for a start, combined with the fact that people who don’t bother to create their own universes are statistically going to be less-motivated, less-experienced, and/or less-competent programmers. There’s a reason that the stereotype of hackers is 13 year old script kiddies. I’m glad for the exceptions, but they are exceptions.
What on earth are the Ree?
Google turns up nothing.
New HPMOR discussion thread here.
Rather, what I’m saying is: [stuff you’re saying]
In which case, I totally misunderstood what you were saying. Never mind.
Your explanation of the Groundhog Day attack is the only one I’ve seen so far that makes sense.
Implying that fanfiction is not written in the real world.
if I saw legions of ridiculous, cockamamie theories about my story get treated with absolute seriousness on web forums and TV Tropes, I might purposely spoil the ending in my sarcasm-dripping condescension
That clinches it; 75th is my alter ego. You know, a la Tyler Durden or something.
Maybe the reason McGonagall knew that Dumbledore was behind the Santa Claus portkey is because only the headmaster could create a portkey that would work inside the Hogwarts wards.
Then again, Snape didn’t realize that just from hearing about the portkey. This theory’s probably inaccurate.
Retracting as per pedanterrific’s comment.
That’s exactly the same behaviour we’d see if he really did just want to put the girl in Azkaban.
First paragraph: Irrelevant.
Maybe it’s just an inherent constraint of writing a Harry Potter fic.
In other words, you’re talking about what makes a fic a Harry Potter fic, not about what HPMoR is about.
a story that eventually revealed that “prophecies don’t really exist and are always cons” … would be in the same class as a story that eventually revealed that “magic doesn’t really exist, it’s all sufficiently advanced technology controlled by aliens who are the real mastermind, villain, and Harry ends up teaming with Voldemort to defeat them”. It might be a good story, but it’s not a Harry Potter story.
In other words, a story where Arthur is king of Britain rather than a supernatural adventurer isn’t an Arthur story. A story where Merlin is a major character isn’t an Arthur story. A story where Mordred is actually an alien isn’t an Arthur story.
What I’m saying here is that you’re drawing a line in the sand between “Harry Potter stories” and “not Harry Potter stories”, but that line doesn’t correspond to any kind of sharp division in the real world.
If that were true, it’d be really easy to detect an Imperius by examining the subject’s memories… The subject wouldn’t remember deciding to do anything the Imperius made them do. [Test Foo]
Instead, McGonagall’s statement implies that the best way to figure out whether the subject was Imperiused is to see if they remember being Imperiused, even with all the information that would allow you to perform Test Foo.
Then again, McGonagall’s speaking outside her area of expertise.
We’re given at least two hints about this during the trial
Mind spelling them out for those untutored in the Dark Arts?
Being in debt is probably not the same thing as being a vassal, even temporarily.
(Well, maybe… Dumbledore still hasn’t told us what rights Lucius now has over Harry.)