Nope, just heard of them.
smk
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Reminds me of cuddle parties, and also #7 and #8 here.
I guess your post isn’t really suited for this context because it’s basically just telling us what your preferences are. Oh, well, I find it interesting to see what people’s preferences are. And it gives me an excuse to tell you mine. I would prefer a world in which existing people did not die and new people were not created. If for some strange reason new people simply had to be created, they definitely would not be created as utterly dependent creatures who gradually develop personhood. Imagining a world with few children gives you a feeling of wrongness? Well, thinking about childhood gives me a feeling of wrongness. I really hope we get rid of childhood someday.
Are most people here transhumanists? If you are, do you have some specific transhumanist wishes? What about transhumanist possibilities that you want to avoid?
So Draco will have to build political power without the benefit of growing up in Slytherin. I wonder if Lucius will try to influence other families to pull their kids out of Hogwarts too?
It’s posted in the hpmor.com author’s note due to FFN being unresponsive: http://hpmor.com/notes/83/
Seems kind of like rehashing old ground covered by Spider Robinson, to me.
In Ch 45, Harry thinks:
I comprehend your nature, you symbolize Death, through some law of magic you are a shadow that Death casts into the world.
If this is true, it’s possible that as long as death exists (for wizards, anyway), it will continue to cast its shadows, and so the dementors can never be all destroyed. Maybe they’ll just respawn or something. In fact, maybe when Harry destroyed that one in Ch 45, a dementor respawned back at Azkaban without anyone noticing. Do the guards keep a count of dementors?
My speculations were:
Maybe Lucius decided to let Draco keep some privacy.
Or he just hasn’t gotten around to fully questioning him under veritaserum yet.
Or he’s pretending that he doesn’t know that Harry has a Patronus.
Or someone obliviated Draco of this information before Draco was returned to his father.
Or Draco is secretly an occlumens and he just pretended to let the veritaserum work on him.I don’t think Draco is an occlumens. I also don’t think Lucius is such a nice dad that he would respect Draco’s privacy after Draco was nearly killed.
I suppose he might not have had the chance yet, but if I was Lucius I would have tried really hard to get the chance to question Draco in detail before the trial. Unless Lucius was overconfident of his influence with the Wizengamot?
It’s interesting that in Ch 81 Lucius (acted like he) didn’t know that Harry can cast a Patronus.
In Ch 79, Dumbledore suggested:
Harry… whatever you have done with Draco, you must assume that Lucius Malfoy will soon know of it.”
Harry’s head sank into his hands. “He’ll give Draco Veritaserum.”
But apparently Lucius decided to let Draco keep some privacy.
Or he just hasn’t gotten around to fully questioning him under veritaserum yet.
Or he’s pretending that he doesn’t know that Harry has a Patronus.
Or someone obliviated Draco of this information before Draco was returned to his father.
Or Draco is secretly an occlumens and he just pretended to let the veritaserum work on him.EDIT: Never mind, there’s a comment in the new thread about it.
Many of those in attendance probably can’t cast a Patronus anyway, so they wouldn’t have any reason to Obliviate themselves to get back what they never had.
Not one of my favorites. I’m tempted to stick this one in a mental category called “Eliezer’s BDSM Posts”—you know, the ones where he says he likes to imagine living in a world where various things are deliberately made difficult/painful/scary and everyone goes around wearing black leather vests (ok, I made up the part about the vests). Also a lot of his fun theory posts would go in this category.
Furthermore, if Draco was seriously harmed there is absolutely no way Hermione wouldn’t have seen him to Madam Pomfrey.
Hermione is a kind, caring person with a strong moral core, a “Milgram resister” who wouldn’t even cast a Simple Strike Hex on orders from a teacher. But she’s not a pacifist, is she? Perhaps she could be convinced that harming someone, or letting them be harmed, was the right thing to do. Especially if she was brainwashed a bit.
Are time-turners really not turing computable? Is Harry ever going to figure out what allows magic to (seem to?) break the laws of physics? Is “we’re living in a simulation” eliminated as a possibility?
I found this comment clearer and more engaging than the original post.
Um, I dunno. I’m just referring to that fact that I don’t have my own source of health insurance, so I need to be on his, but in an ideal world I would have my own.
I am legally married because I need the legal and financial benefits that marriage provides in my country. However, in an ideal fantasy world, I wouldn’t need those benefits and I wouldn’t be legally married. But I would still be married! Just without government involvement. (BTW I have no interest in raising kids.)
It’s normal for people to hear “marriage” and think “legal marriage” but I hate that.
Two years is the time frame one always hears, isn’t it? I only did a very quick search but most of what I found seemed to be referring to the same study by Ted Huston, and I didn’t even find the study itself. My impression is that 2 years (25 months, one article said) was the average time spent dating before marriage (not before engagement, as you asked) for happy, stable couples, however they judge that. So, not the most helpful.
But, it does kind of match my intuition that one should wait until New Relationship Energy is mostly over before making that decision, and I often read that NRE (though it’s usually not called that in these articles) typically lasts about 2 years (this matches my limited experience). Also, I’m monogamous, but I’d guess that even if your NRE with Partner A has faded, NRE with Partner B could spill over onto your other relationship(s) and affect your judgment there too?
My guess is it means that the room looks like the white wall color is an intentional and well-chosen part of a cohesive design.