Really late reply, but: the prophecy was made before Harry was born; Voldemort and Dumbledore found out about it at roughly the same time (almost immediately); and the attack came when Harry was fifteen months old. They knew about the prophecy while they were in hiding.
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Do you not care about humans you can’t get along with?
Do we have an example of Finite being used to cancel anything other than transfigurations or first-year level spells (Somnium)?
It’s not unique, and Dumbledore did bring it up, actually:
“How can you not believe it? ” said the Headmaster, looking completely flabbergasted. “Harry, you’re a wizard! You’ve seen ghosts! ”
“Ghosts,” Harry said, his voice flat. “You mean those things like portraits, stored memories and behaviors with no awareness or life, accidentally impressed into the surrounding material by the burst of magic that accompanies the violent death of a wizard—”
[...]
I asked Hermione and she said that they were just afterimages, burned into the stone of the castle by the death of a wizard, like the silhouettes left on the walls of Hiroshima.
Compare:
For a moment it seemed like the outpouring of magic might hold, take root in the castle’s stone; but then the outpouring ended and the magic faded, her body stopped moving and all motion halted as Hermione Jean Granger ceased to exist -
I read that as being an excuse for the differences between Harry’s Cloak and the one Neville’s familiar with.
Whoops, looks like you’re right, the accusation was public knowledge:
Father’s own allies didn’t believe him after Dumbledore just denied everything in public
It’s called Finite Incantatem.
Amelia Bones isn’t a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
Emmeline wasn’t a member of the Order of the Phoenix any more, they had disbanded after the end of the last war. And during the war, she’d known, they’d all known, that Director Crouch had quietly approved of their off-the-books battle.
Director Bones wasn’t Crouch.
[...]
“That depends,” Amelia said in a hard voice. “Are you here to help us catch criminals, or to protect them from the consequences of their actions?” Are you going to try to stop the killer of my brother from getting her well-deserved Kiss, old meddler? From what Amelia heard, Dumbledore had gotten smarter toward the end of the war, mostly due to Mad-Eye’s nonstop nagging; but had relapsed into his foolish mercies the instant Voldemort’s body was found.
One wonders why she would even know about it at all, if she had nothing to do with it.
Another nice touch: Quirrell’s thoughts do the same.
Every day that Harry kills something is a good day, of course.
“Prodi” is the imperative (“come forth”), “prodeas” is the subjunctive (here used in supplication, for which there is no precise English translation; perhaps “wouldst thou come forth”).
Which itself suggests something quite interesting about the nature of incantations… unless it’s not actually an incantation, just talking to Hogwarts in Latin.
I wasn’t sure what time they were meeting- it seemed like it was a short time after retrieving Harry from lunch, but I couldn’t find any specifics. Even if it was after three, though, they could (for example) send a Patronus to Flitwick asking where he was at three o’clock, but not to tell them anything else but that; and have Harry come there at nine, tell him to tell Flitwick not to report his arrival to anyone before nine, then Time-Turn in front of them.
Yeah, I don’t know why the test didn’t involve Time-Turning such that he would appear right in front of Dumbledore or whoever at three o’clock. It shouldn’t be too difficult to prevent cheating with the Cloak.
It doesn’t even require having thought of the test before three, just knowing where someone (Flitwick, etc) was at three, without actually seeing it yourself.
He can edit his own without leaving an * , for the record.
I can’t tell if you’re aware that that was Manfred’s point.
Huh, it works even better in text with undifferentiated spelling. I’ll have to remember that one.
He’s also a Horcrux in canon; the murder that created him was the murder of Harry’s parents, which still happened.
It wasn’t the murder of Harry’s parents, it was
when Lily cast her own life between them as a shield, the Killing Curse rebounded upon Lord Voldemort, and a fragment of Voldemort’s soul was blasted apart from the whole, and latched itself onto the only living soul left in that collapsed building.
(Deathly Hallows, Ch 33)
The Killing-Curse-reflecting Love Shield doesn’t exist in HPMoR, so if Harry is a Horcrux it’s not because things happened the same as in canon.
Sirius somehow got everybody to convict and incarcerate Pettigrew in his place (Imperius + repeated doses of Polyjuice?).
He wasn’t even convicted, just tossed straight into Azkaban. And another piece of evidence is the Quibbler article claiming Pettigrew and Sirius are the same person.
Quirrell’s “ritual to summon Death” is a reference to the Seething Death from LWE’s Ethshar novels, so it’s a pretty safe bet.
1) The generator would be in the isolated area.
2) Lead-lined airlock, and obviously portable electronics wouldn’t be allowed in the isolated area.
3) If you have communication lines going to terminals which are not isolated, then you haven’t even made an attempt at isolation in the first place.
4) This is a point about practicalities, not possibilities.
5) The relevant comparison would be the CDC, not the military.
Did you ever come up with a response to the point that the Goblet was in Hogwarts for a few centuries after Baba Yaga, before being warehoused at Beauxbatons? If the curse was in effect all that time, it would have been mentioned.