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Do Hermoine’s parents even have the right to withdraw her? Harry’s parents apparently do not have such a right:
Muggles had around the same legal standing as children or kittens: they were cute, so if you tortured them in public you could get arrested, but they weren’t people. Some reluctant provision had been made for recognizing the parents of Muggleborns as human in a limited sense, but Harry’s adoptive parents did not fall into that legal category (Chapter 26).
We know that LL loves his mother, but does she love her son? Does she love anyone but Voldemort?
Saved by the Wayback Machine. Thanks. I should have checked the talk page.
WPDR Harry could at least drink HPJEV under the table.
This is the quote I had in mind, from Chapter 23 of HBP:
’He [Voldemort] seems to have reserved the process of making Horcruxes for particularly significant deaths. You would certainly have been that. He believed that in killing you, he was destroying the danger the prophecy had outlined. He believed he was making himself invincible. I am sure that he was intending to make his final Horcrux with your death.
’As we know, he failed. After an interval of some years, however, he used Nagini to kill an old Muggle man, and it might then have occurred to him to turn her into his last Horcrux.
If Dumbledore is right, then Bertha Jorkins could not have been murdered to make that Horcrux, because she was already dead. Is there an interview where Rowling says otherwise? I don’t see anything on the wiki page (a citation, or other reference) that backs up their claim.
I thought that the Nagini horcrux was made via the killing of Frank Bryce. Don’t have the book with me to check, though.
I’m assuming the ‘past-Quirrell’ that Quirrell tells Hermoine about in Chapter 84 is the ‘young man’ that Amelia Bones believes is now Quirrell. (Is this reasonable?)
If that’s the case, then one way of understanding the situation is this: Riddle assumed two personas—Voldemort and Light Riddle—in order to experiment with different ways of acquiring power. He found that the Voldemort-path was much more preferable on account of the loyalty he could obtain via the Dark Mark. The Dark Mark was so effective that the loyalty he earned as Light Riddle seemed negligible by comparison; thus he complains that he got no help from his ‘allies’.
So Riddle retired his Light persona by faking his own death and continued only as Voldemort. Now that he sees Harry as a potential puppet, he wants to ensure that he/Harry have loyalty comparable to that secured with a Dark Mark. He therefore calls for a ‘Light Mark’ in his speech before Christmas.
EDIT: Of course ‘Light Riddle’ (if he existed) and Voldemort would have looked different; Minerva remembers Voldemort as snake-like. If the above is right, then Voldemort’s disfiguration would have to be a disguise rather than real damage from Dark Rituals.
It can’t be blocked by raw magic (Protego and similar) but what prevents Actio, Wingdarium Leviosa or Free Transfiguration to be used to create a physical barrier to block the spell?
Nothing. Indeed, Dumbledore blocks the killing curse in canon (Order of the Phoenix) by animating a statue to jump in front of it.
So if AK is in any way unblockable, it is unblockable only by magical means.
The most promising option that remains, by my reading, is that there’s nothing separate about the Horcrux contents for the Hat to key off of—they effectively are Harry, or part of him.
That seems to be supported by this passage from Chapter 85:
Maybe because his dark side wasn’t an imaginary voice like Hufflepuff; Harry might imagine his Hufflepuff part as wanting different things from himself, but his dark side wasn’t like that. His “dark side”, so far as Harry could tell, was a different way that Harry sometimes was. Right now, Harry wasn’t angry; and trying to ask what “dark Harry” wanted was a phone ringing unanswered.
The idea is, crudely, that if Harry is a Horcrux, it is not because he has some distinct thing inside him, but because some part of Voldemort (part of his soul?) has “merged” with Harry.
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Did anyone archive the April Fool’s chapter from ff.net?
Your name is your name, and no piece of paper can grant it or take it away.
If the world of HPMOR is some sort of simulation, as you claim, then this is true and significant; your name exists as a fixed value that can be referenced by a program like the Map. But if the world of HPMOR is more like our own, then to say “your name is your name” is pretty empty; like most everything else, there is an explanation of why your name is your name. In our world, what makes it true that we bear the names we do is not that we all have own values for the variable $name. Rather, what makes it true is some other fact; one possibility (one that I don’t believe myself) is that what makes it true that my name is Alex is the fact that my birth certificate reads ‘Alex’.
So I think our disagreement arises from what we think the world of HPMOR is like.
It’s not clear. When Crouch is confessing everything under Veritaserum, he says that he saw his father entering the grounds on the Map, and so headed into the grounds to intercept him. He says something along the lines of “Then Potter came, and Krum”, and it’s ambiguous as to whether he sees them appear on the Map or if he sees them him person.
Well, someone already did do it; now the question is whether we need part 13 before tomorrow night.
That’s just not how the Hogwarts founders would have thought about the problem.
That doesn’t mean the Founders could do the impossible. Saying that “it just uses your name” might be true, but it doesn’t tell us how it can use your name. There must be a way that it works (although it may very well be that there is no consistent way-that-it-works that can be extracted from the text). Compare this to another example in which the creator of an artifact “thought about the problem” differently:
Broomsticks had been invented during what a Muggle would have called the Dark Ages, supposedly by a legendary witch named Celestria Relevo, allegedly the great-great-granddaughter of Merlin.
Celestria Relevo, or whichever person or group had really invented those enchantments, hadn’t known a darned thing about Newtonian mechanics.
Broomsticks, therefore, worked by Aristotelian physics.
They went where you pointed them (ch 59).
Broomsticks don’t work the way we would expect them to work, because that’s not how Celestria Relevo thought about the problem, but that doesn’t meant there isn’t a way that they work.
This feels implausible, but, given that Lucius seems to think that Harry is Voldemort, it would be tempting.
So no foreign professors!
This theory, unlike the birth certificate one, can easily explain how the Map matches people with names. During the Sorting, McGonagall reads aloud a name, and the next person who puts on the Sorting Hat is assigned that name. (Assuming the Hat is hooked up to the security system, or vice versa.)