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But because like pretty much everyone else he was upgraded significantly. This isn't a ForWantOfANail fic, this is a fullblown AU. Harry is not the only character changed from Canon, and it clearly does not all originate from harry himself. If Voldemort was as incompetent as Rowling wrote him, then Improved!Dumbledor would've beaten him the first time around, and if not, Harry would've already defeated him. Similarly, this is why many other parts of The Sorcerers Stone are no longer applicable: they're incredibly stupid and don't fit with the message, theme, or modified characters of [=MoR=].
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But because like pretty much everyone else he was upgraded significantly. This isn't a ForWantOfANail for-want-of-a-nail fic, this is a fullblown AU. Harry is not the only character changed from Canon, and it clearly does not all originate from harry himself. If Voldemort was as incompetent as Rowling wrote him, then Improved!Dumbledor would've beaten him the first time around, and if not, Harry would've already defeated him. Similarly, this is why many other parts of The Sorcerers Stone are no longer applicable: they're incredibly stupid and don't fit with the message, theme, or modified characters of [=MoR=].
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* I can’t believe I didn’t think about it before; all the hints about hints in the author's notes attracted attention finally. The other chapter-quotes seem well related to their chapter, but that one is a bit cryptic. Might it be a hint to the point-of-departure of the fic? A hint about the future story? What's the tiny silver fragment? An assassin's blade would work, but daggers don't quite spill liters of blood. And whose blood spills? (Wizards don't spill that much blood usually.) Who screams what? (It's after the spill, so it's not the spell that caused it.) Could it be when Voldemort spills the unicorn's blood to reincarnate? (I can't remember from canon when that happened, but IIRC it would have been around the time Harry started going to Hogwarts.) And why is it so important to hide it so in plain view?
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* I can’t can't believe I didn’t didn't think about it before; all the hints about hints in the author's notes attracted attention finally. The other chapter-quotes seem well related to their chapter, but that one is a bit cryptic. Might it be a hint to the point-of-departure of the fic? A hint about the future story? What's the tiny silver fragment? An assassin's blade would work, but daggers don't quite spill liters of blood. And whose blood spills? (Wizards don't spill that much blood usually.) Who screams what? (It's after the spill, so it's not the spell that caused it.) Could it be when Voldemort spills the unicorn's blood to reincarnate? (I can't remember from canon when that happened, but IIRC it would have been around the time Harry started going to Hogwarts.) And why is it so important to hide it so in plain view?
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She loves to read, she is unusually interested in the things she finds interesting, she is socially awkward and finds it easier to interact with books than people, she basks in praise, she is extremely sensitive… It is practically canon. (Fanon-canon)
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She loves to read, she is unusually interested in the things she finds interesting, she is socially awkward and finds it easier to interact with books than people, she basks in praise, she is extremely sensitive… sensitive... It is practically canon. (Fanon-canon)
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Everything speaks for Quirrell doing it. He notices stuff, like Margaret Bulstrode having a Time Turner. He would have noticed that the Weasley twins somehow knew when to hide and where to go – maybe already when helping them with Skeeter, which he most likely did – and he would have found out how. And memory charmed them again, since they obviously didn't remember that it was a map they had. He must have been hoping that Harry would shed his restraints when Hermione was dead.
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Everything speaks for Quirrell doing it. He notices stuff, like Margaret Bulstrode having a Time Turner. He would have noticed that the Weasley twins somehow knew when to hide and where to go – maybe already when helping them with Skeeter, which he most likely did – – and he would have found out how. And memory charmed them again, since they obviously didn't remember that it was a map they had. He must have been hoping that Harry would shed his restraints when Hermione was dead.
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[[WMG:Narcissa is only dead to Lucius some of the time. When he does to sleep at night, [[Series/{{Awake}} he's in another world where Draco died and Narcissa lives]].]]
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[[WMG:Narcissa is only dead to Lucius some of the time. When he does to sleep at night, [[Series/{{Awake}} [[Series/Awake2012 he's in another world where Draco died and Narcissa lives]].]]
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** As a further corollary: this realization will make Harry wonder for a little while whether Cliff Bleszinski was a wizard, then he will dismiss it as an amusing coincindence.
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** As a further corollary: this realization will make Harry wonder for a little while whether Cliff Bleszinski Creator/CliffBleszinski was a wizard, then he will dismiss it as an amusing coincindence.
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** Of COURSE you send the orphaned hero to live with the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings excentric]]/[[Literature/HarryPotter cruel]]/[[StarWars petty]] aunt and uncle. It's in every epic fantasy ever! Dumbledore may not approach things from the pure rationalist end of things, but he understands the tropes well enough for that.
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** Of COURSE you send the orphaned hero to live with the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings excentric]]/[[Literature/HarryPotter cruel]]/[[StarWars cruel]]/[[Franchise/StarWars petty]] aunt and uncle. It's in every epic fantasy ever! Dumbledore may not approach things from the pure rationalist end of things, but he understands the tropes well enough for that.
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Specifically, a session of a Harry Potter role-playing game (Wizards and Wands?) where Creator/EliezerYudkowsky's player character is Harry Potter. The existence of in-universe items with statistics ("Knives +3! Forks +2! Spoons with a +4 bonus!") is a clue. All references Harry Potter makes about player characters or non-player characters are just Eliezer Yudkowsky meta-gaming. Besides, a comment Eliezer Yudkowsky made about [[StarWars midichlorians]] and why he is allegedly against them, could be rewritten to be about Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality. He wrote: "So trying to explain the Force with little mindochondria is futile" and "In the world where midichlorians are needed to explain the Force, the Force simply doesn't exist in the first place.", which could be rewritten as "So trying to explain magic with a genetic marker is futile" and "In the world where a genetic marker is needed to explain magic, magic simply doesn't exist in the first place." Since magic exists in the Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality, then Harry will eventually discover that a genetic marker is not needed for it to work, and the reason why magic exists in the first place is that Harry himself, and all that surrounds him, is fictional.
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Specifically, a session of a Harry Potter role-playing game (Wizards and Wands?) where Creator/EliezerYudkowsky's player character is Harry Potter. The existence of in-universe items with statistics ("Knives +3! Forks +2! Spoons with a +4 bonus!") is a clue. All references Harry Potter makes about player characters or non-player characters are just Eliezer Yudkowsky meta-gaming. Besides, a comment Eliezer Yudkowsky made about [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars midichlorians]] and why he is allegedly against them, could be rewritten to be about Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality. He wrote: "So trying to explain the Force with little mindochondria is futile" and "In the world where midichlorians are needed to explain the Force, the Force simply doesn't exist in the first place.", which could be rewritten as "So trying to explain magic with a genetic marker is futile" and "In the world where a genetic marker is needed to explain magic, magic simply doesn't exist in the first place." Since magic exists in the Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality, then Harry will eventually discover that a genetic marker is not needed for it to work, and the reason why magic exists in the first place is that Harry himself, and all that surrounds him, is fictional.
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** (Though the rock itself didn't kill the troll; the head would have regenerated - we saw that process starting. The rock trick gave Harry time to transfigure the killing acid.)
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** (Though the rock itself didn't kill the troll; the head would have regenerated - we saw that process starting. The rock trick gave Harry time to transfigure the killing acid.acid; and partial transfiguration was the method used, which definitely isn't a first-year spell.)
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** (Though the rock itself didn't kill the troll; the head would have regenerated - we saw that process starting. The rock trick gave Harry time to transfigure the killing acid.)
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* Voldemort could definitely fly both as Quirrel and in his resurrected body. Chapter 113 and 114 describe numerous times how he is hovering, floating, or moving through the air to dodge spells. Presumably his resurrection copied the broomstick enchantments that were on his original bones, since the scene makes it implausible for him to have cast them again.
* The rest is ambiguous. After resurrection, Voldemort does not transform into an animagus, and he uses Bellatrix's arm to summon his servants. In his original body. he would almost certainly have had a way to summon his servants ''without'' a servant already present, so that might be weak evidence he did not get his Dark Mark back.
* The rest is ambiguous. After resurrection, Voldemort does not transform into an animagus, and he uses Bellatrix's arm to summon his servants. In his original body. he would almost certainly have had a way to summon his servants ''without'' a servant already present, so that might be weak evidence he did not get his Dark Mark back.
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Yeah, this isn't a WMG for HPMOR exactly, but the idea stems from it. Luna can see magical animals that even witches can't see. She talks about things that can't be understood by regular magicals. She is as weird to witches as witches are to muggles.
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Yeah, this isn't a WMG for HPMOR exactly, but the idea stems from it. Luna can see magical animals that even witches can't see. She talks about things that can't be understood by regular magicals. She is as weird to witches as witches are to muggles.muggles.
[[WMG: Cruciatus alters perception of time exponentially]]
The Cruciatus curse permanently destroys its victim's mind if used for "more than a few minutes" (Chapter 19), yet seemingly has no permanent effects before then. When Voldemort tortures his Death Eaters for several seconds or "what seemed like a full minute" (Chapter 113), it leaves them only slightly shaken.
Voldemort also threatens that Harry's friend and family will "ssuffer for what will sseem to them like eternitiess" (Chapter 113). (The fact this is in Parselmouth may be taken to mean he means it quite literally.)
A possible explanation is that the curse extends the victims subjective perception of time, and it does so exponentially rather than linearly. For example, if each minute of the spell passes ten times more slowly than the one before, then a minute or two would still be a relatively short time, while six minutes would last years, and ten minutes many millennia. This would explain how the spell can go from "harmless" to "guaranteed fatal" in the span of minutes, with no regard to individual differences in pain tolerance or mental fortitude.
[[WMG: Cruciatus alters perception of time exponentially]]
The Cruciatus curse permanently destroys its victim's mind if used for "more than a few minutes" (Chapter 19), yet seemingly has no permanent effects before then. When Voldemort tortures his Death Eaters for several seconds or "what seemed like a full minute" (Chapter 113), it leaves them only slightly shaken.
Voldemort also threatens that Harry's friend and family will "ssuffer for what will sseem to them like eternitiess" (Chapter 113). (The fact this is in Parselmouth may be taken to mean he means it quite literally.)
A possible explanation is that the curse extends the victims subjective perception of time, and it does so exponentially rather than linearly. For example, if each minute of the spell passes ten times more slowly than the one before, then a minute or two would still be a relatively short time, while six minutes would last years, and ten minutes many millennia. This would explain how the spell can go from "harmless" to "guaranteed fatal" in the span of minutes, with no regard to individual differences in pain tolerance or mental fortitude.
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The story, rather than taking place in the recent past the way the canonical stories do, actually takes place several decades into the future. Like Film/TheMatrix, it takes place inside a computer simulation. Unlike The Matrix, the characters aren't flesh and blood humans plugged in to the computer simulation, they're all AIs. Different AIs in the story were deliberately designed with significantly different levels of sophistication and/or constraints on their behavior, which explains Harry's observations about [=PCs and NPCs=] and heroic supervision in chapter 75. The purpose of the simulation is an experiment to determine whether Harry is Friendly (i.e. whether he is safe to release from the simulation into the real world.)
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The story, rather than taking place in the recent past the way the canonical stories do, actually takes place several decades into the future. Like Film/TheMatrix, Franchise/TheMatrix, it takes place inside a computer simulation. Unlike The Matrix, the characters aren't flesh and blood humans plugged in to the computer simulation, they're all AIs. Different AIs in the story were deliberately designed with significantly different levels of sophistication and/or constraints on their behavior, which explains Harry's observations about [=PCs and NPCs=] and heroic supervision in chapter 75. The purpose of the simulation is an experiment to determine whether Harry is Friendly (i.e. whether he is safe to release from the simulation into the real world.)
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When [[spoiler: Harry kills the dementor]] after the patronus-casting class, its cloak is left behind. Perhaps only ministry-affiliated or captured dementors such as the ones that work at Azkaban have cloaks, and if a wizard met a dementor in the wild, they would see it for the unknowable EldritchHorror that it is instead of the unpleasant corpse-like creature their minds expect it to be, which would be [[BrownNote very]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation very dangerous]].
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When [[spoiler: Harry kills the dementor]] after the patronus-casting class, its cloak is left behind. Perhaps only ministry-affiliated or captured dementors such as the ones that work at Azkaban have cloaks, and if a wizard met a dementor in the wild, they would see it for the unknowable EldritchHorror EldritchAbomination that it is instead of the unpleasant corpse-like creature their minds expect it to be, which would be [[BrownNote very]], [[GoMadFromTheRevelation very dangerous]].
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It's run by a higher-order being (or a conglomerate of such beings, or if reality is just a game or a war multiple opposing beings, hereafter referred to as "you") using the following simple rules: Someone can arbitrarily appear in the past, generally following a condition involving a reasonably high probability of a time machine passing into or already existing in the person's life. You have six hours to make their past self conform to that of their time-traveling self, including the capability and the decision to go back in time. If you succeed, all affected memories are edited for consistency. If you fail, [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 the time traveler's universe is destroyed]]. The reason nobody ever succeeds in breaking time travel is not because it's impossible, it's because of a form of quantum immortality: In any universe that exists, time travel has never been broken, [[CaptainObvious because any universe in which time travel has been broken no longer exists]].
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It's run by a higher-order being (or a conglomerate of such beings, or if reality is just a game or a war multiple opposing beings, hereafter referred to as "you") using the following simple rules: Someone can arbitrarily appear in the past, generally following a condition involving a reasonably high probability of a time machine passing into or already existing in the person's life. You have six hours to make their past self conform to that of their time-traveling self, including the capability and the decision to go back in time. If you succeed, all affected memories are edited for consistency. If you fail, [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 the time traveler's universe is destroyed]]. The reason nobody ever succeeds in breaking time travel is not because it's impossible, it's because of a form of quantum immortality: In any universe that exists, time travel has never been broken, [[CaptainObvious because any universe in which time travel has been broken no longer exists]].
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