Yep, I have the old mailing list! I’ll definitely include the whole mailing list once I get a Facebook group and some plans set up. ^^
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Anyone in the Madison area who’d attend a talk on Acausal Trade on Sunday?
Looking to restart Madison LW meetups, in need of regulars
My understanding was Lucius came home and “found” Narcissa burned in the remnants of the house, or at least remembered doing so. It just doesn’t make sense that a clever, cunning man (who brought Draco to see Death Note and criticized the plot) would find no trace of his wife and, knowing Dumbledore to be famously soft-hearted, would just unquestioningly believe that story.
Oh. Dumbledore must have memory-charmed Lucius.
My feeling is things that are overwhelmingly likely do not get treated as information. For example, Harry’s clothes go with him, but “Time” doesn’t consider that to be information of his clothes still existing. It feels like that there’s a Deus ex Machina aspect to how “Time” works and deals with information. Sometimes when you try to time-turn you just encounter Paradox.
So based on that I’d predict that if you try to time-turn with intention to get more uses out of the stone, you will encounter Paradox.
There’s a limit on a person going back, but I don’t know about things. So maybe a bunch of people with time-turners could hand off the stone.
My feeling is Harry doesn’t want everyone knowing that he, 11-year-old warrior of light, killed 36 death eaters. People would always be wondering if you were evil after that.
Harry, hurry up and read the instructions Voldie left you. You know, find out what dark sacrifice is needed before you make plans to revive Hermione yet again. If it requires a human sacrifice you might consider pacing the dementors out.
I like Undead. “Hermione the Undead” ^^
I’m so cross with Voldemort! How could he have possibly left Harry with the wand? How could he? It’s the exact sort of mistake he obviously wouldn’t make, especially since he already demanded Harry’s wand several times already. How could he have left Harry with an hour on the time-turner? The game was going to last all night, it would have been so easy just to use up all the hours. Why did he wait for last words? See points 14 and 16 on the supervillain list: NO last requests, NO last words. It’s all so weird and uncharacteristically unlike him!
Hi, I’m thinking of hosting a 3-army battle at the Madison wrap-up. Do you have suggestions for how it would work? I’m thinking armbands or headbands that you try to snatch off, like in the mangas. It doesn’t seem very battle-like though.
P.S. small correction about the Madison wrap-up. Middleton and Madison are basically the same city, and the state is Wisconsin.
I’m so confused about the wand. Why does Harry still have the wand? Obviously Voldemort should have demanded that Harry drop the wand before giving him 60 seconds to speak.
Surely other lives are permitted though, such as Neville. Voldemort said specifically: “Your mudblood servants in your little army. Your precious parents.” That would exclude Neville (who isn’t muggle-born) and Cedric (who isn’t in Harry’s army).
Can we each propose a non-transfiguration solution? Even if it’s just a rough idea. I feel like we’re getting stuck on transfiguration, and a bunch of those require very precise handling of things 10 feet away (such as death eaters) or significantly big things (Harry’s body parts). Hermione struggled to get the stunning hex right on the first try, and I feel Eliezer will categorize “transfigure this very precise, remote thing” as a “new magical power”.
Ssome livess I have already promissed you, but otherss I did not. . . For each unknown power you tell me how to masster, or other ssecret you tell me that I desire to know, you may name one more of thosse to insstead be protected and honored under my reign. Thiss alsso I promisse and intend to keep.
Is Harry permitted to name himself as a person to be protected? It doesn’t seem to say that he cannot. I believe partial transfiguration would buy him a life. It’s an unsatisfying solution, as it only saves Harry. But then again, the exam only requires Harry to survive.
Dear Eliezer,
For the best experience, if you have not already been following Internet conversations about recent chapters, I suggest not doing so, trying to complete this exam on your own. . . .
Although you’ve requested an individual exam format, two mathematicians aren’t “the same smart” as the smartest of the two of them.
The Polymath Project got off to a slow start. . . Jozsef Solymosi from the University of British Columbia posted a comment. . . over the next 37 days, 27 people wrote 800 mathematical comments. . . Just 37 days after the project began Gowers announced that he was confident the polymaths had solved not just his original problem, but a harder problem that included the original as a special case. Link
You spend many chapters teaching Harry the importance of collaboration.
“Anyhow,” Hermione said. “Captains Goldstein and Weasley, you’re on duty for thinking up strategic ideas for our next battle. Captains Macmillan and Susan—sorry, I mean Macmillan and Bones—try to come up with some tactics we can use, also any training you think we should try. Oh, and congratulations on your marching song, Captain Goldstein, I think it was a big plus for esprit de corps.”
So I’m afraid I urge everyone to do the opposite of what you’ve suggested and collaborate. Sorry.
I don’t think Hermione is actually asleep anymore. I was expecting her to wake up right away when resurrected, and that didn’t happen. Then the death eaters started appearing with loud pops loud enough to count distinctly, and that didn’t seem to wake her. And since she’s fully repaired there’s no need to sleep to recover.
Chapter 73
Hermione felt the jolt of Innervation bringing her awake, and out of some intuitive strategism she didn’t roll to her feet right away; it had been a completely hopeless battle and she didn’t know what she could do but some instinct told her that leaping to her feet wasn’t it.
Chapter 30
“Let me guess,” Harry said, the sickness already churning in his stomach. He really hated losing. “It was a very easy battle, right? They dropped like flies?” “Yes,” Draco said. “We got them all on the first shot—”
Unfortunately we will not be getting a summary from GK. GK found the game to be uninteresting. :(
Thanks for posting! I’m working on getting a Facebook group up, and all events will be posted there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/783506698431372/
Check there for events and see if any of it works for you. If you don’t mind my asking, where do you live? I’m very fond of driving and could possibly transport you for a weekend visit.