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*Except if a third party stabs them with a basilisk fang or the sword of Gryphindor or something...
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***** It is probable that the spell IS the view from pioneer because it is the spell to see whatever your horcrux sees.
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** On the other hand, Canon!Harry had no guest during his canon!sorting, and he absolutely was a horcrux. The same absence exists in both canon and MoR, so the same horcrux could be there.
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[[WMG: Lily didn't use a potion to help Petunia.]]
When Lily said that there wasn't a potion that could help Petunia lose weight and become more beautiful, she was pretty much on the mark. When Petunia got to the point of saying risking death was worth it... Lily brewed up a potion that was generally placebo... and applied a self-improvement Imperius.
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theorys been banging around in my head for the last three days and it makes more sense (to me at least)
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!! Harry Potter
* He's been exposed to the power of time travel at the tender age of 11, decides to improve on the 6-hour model Time Turner, and uses it to give himself the cloak to create a StableTimeLoop
* He's been exposed to the power of time travel at the tender age of 11, decides to improve on the 6-hour model Time Turner, and uses it to give himself the cloak to create a StableTimeLoop
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* This troper feels that this idea was explained in the story and shouldn't be considered a guess.
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**** Not proof that Harry's been there, but at the distance of Pioneer, the sun would not be noticeable to Harry as anything other than another star, even if he knew exactly which direction to look.
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[[WMG:The pattern of the horcruxes]]
We know where one horcrux is: in space. We know Quirrell found Harry's ideas of where to imprison a Dementor to be suspiciously interesting: in the earth's core; in solid rock; sunk in the Marianas Trench; floating in the stratosphere; and shot into space.
Now, in canon, four of the horcruxes are in artifacts belonging to the Founders, whose Houses correspond to the classic alchemical elements: Gryffindor is fire, Ravenclaw air, Slytherin water, and Hufflepuff earth.
Quirrell, as a wizard, saw the same alchemical pattern in Harry's suggestions: fire (earth's molten core), earth (solid rock), water (Marianas Trench), air (stratosphere), and aether (space). Harry, on the other hand, still hasn't read his Roger Bacon!
[[WMG:Why Harry and Hermione can't cast an animal Patronus, but can't tell anyone why]]
Dementors represent Death and its power to inspire fear, hopelessness, and despair. Animal Patronuses represent irrational faith in life after death; they are symbols of the wizard or witch's self-image of their immortal soul. (For comparison, see the Egyptian depictions of the soul as a bird.)
Rationalists don't have irrational faith, or at least don't ''want'' to have any; and they don't believe in immortal souls. Neither did grizzled war-veteran Godric Gryffindor, who'd seen too much blood: he'd seen his friends die, and killed his enemies, knowing that was ''the end'' for them. Hence, neither rationalists nor Gryffindor could cast a Patronus.
Harry's human Patronus represents his faith in humanity (hence the chapter title, "Humanism"), and specifically his faith in humanity's ability to conquer Death through reason. However, in order to explain this to someone who uses an animal Patronus, he would have to convince them that their faith in life after death is wrong -- thus, taking away their ability to cast the animal Patronus.
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The spell that Dumbledore used, had the restriction that it should be someone that din't want to use the Philosopher's Stone. Harry would every much like the idea of using one.
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The spell that Dumbledore used, had the restriction that it should be someone that din't didn't want to use the Philosopher's Stone. Harry would every much like the idea of using one.
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[[WMG:Harry's father's rock is just a rock]]
I can easily see James setting up a situation that would make his son carry around an ordinary rock for the rest of his life.
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[[WMG: Harry isn't going to be able to get the stone like in the first book]]
The spell that Dumbledore used, had the restriction that it should be someone that din't want to use the Philosopher's Stone. Harry would every much like the idea of using one.
The spell that Dumbledore used, had the restriction that it should be someone that din't want to use the Philosopher's Stone. Harry would every much like the idea of using one.
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[[WMG: Harry is going to discover a way to mass-produce Philosopher's Stones]]
Being the only source of non-evil life extension in canon, the Philosopher's Stone is exactly the kind of thing that MoR|Harry would be desperate to get his hands on and then give to everyone else.
Being the only source of non-evil life extension in canon, the Philosopher's Stone is exactly the kind of thing that MoR|Harry would be desperate to get his hands on and then give to everyone else.
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[[WMG: Quirrell's master plan is to set up a recursive Horcruxing]]
To elaborate: Quirrell is aware that Harry is a Horcrux. He wants to somehow get Harry to use HIM as a horcrux. Then it will be logically impossible for either of them to die. So he gets eternity to enjoy torturing and/or ruling the world with the boy who lived.
To elaborate: Quirrell is aware that Harry is a Horcrux. He wants to somehow get Harry to use HIM as a horcrux. Then it will be logically impossible for either of them to die. So he gets eternity to enjoy torturing and/or ruling the world with the boy who lived.
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[[WMG: Lucius Malfoy think Harry is Voldemort.]]
Reread the conversation in chapter 38 particularly this part: "When I read your response to Professor Quirrell's little speech," said the white-haired man, and chuckled grimly. "I was puzzled, at first, for it seemed not in your own interest; it took me days to understand whose interest was being served, and then it all finally became clear. And it is also obvious that you are weak, in some ways if not others."
Reread the conversation in chapter 38 particularly this part: "When I read your response to Professor Quirrell's little speech," said the white-haired man, and chuckled grimly. "I was puzzled, at first, for it seemed not in your own interest; it took me days to understand whose interest was being served, and then it all finally became clear. And it is also obvious that you are weak, in some ways if not others."
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[[WMG: Harry kills Voldemort, but allows him to 'inhabit' his Horcrux.]]
This has been so heavily foreshadowed, in my opinion, that it may not count as wild. The prophecy in this verse is altered specifically to allow a "remnant" to remain outside of this world...in the absence of an afterlife, what else could that mean? And numerous comments from PresumablyVoldemort!Quirrell suggest that he'd consider this a happy ending--sleeping for millenia surrounded by the beauty of space, away from the world he'd dearly wish to leave.
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[[WMG:Luna can [[NoFourthWall see beyond the fourth wall]]]]
Think about it. She tells her father what she sees, events that are happening in a relative 'future', in other Harry Potter fanfics. Being a girl on the cusp of puberty, her sight naturally gravitates towards yaoi in her early attempts to control the ability. Her father takes her visions to be that of a Seer, and publishes them front page every time she shares one.
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* In continuation of this theory, GurrenLagann could well be a documentation of the founding of the nation of Atlantis, with Kamina city as it's capital. "Magic" - with the need for the proper incantations and the imposed limits on what can be done with it - was created by Simon some time after the fall of the Anti Spirals so as to stop the Spiral Nemesis without cowing humanity's fighting spirit.
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Dumbledore is mentioned in the fic as being extremely skilled at transfiguration. He has legitimate access to the Wizengamot proceedings, and so could have transfigured the relevant transcript to alter its text. It would have reverted on its own some hours or days later. Likewise, the wedding contract could have been transfigured from something tiny, or from thin air, and reverted within the vault after it had served its purpose (just because Harry couldn't transfigure air on his first try doesn't mean it's impossible). This would also explain Dumbledore's later "accidental" gift to the Weasley twins (it's pretty clear from their explorations of the hidden corridor that he's been grooming them as useful pawns).
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Dumbledore is mentioned in the fic as being extremely skilled at transfiguration. He has legitimate access to the Wizengamot proceedings, and so could have transfigured the relevant transcript to alter its text. It would have reverted on its own some hours or days later. Likewise, the wedding contract could have been transfigured from something tiny, or from thin air, and reverted within the vault after it had served its purpose (just because Harry couldn't transfigure air on his first try doesn't mean it's impossible). This would also explain Dumbledore's later "accidental" gift to the Weasley twins (it's pretty clear from their explorations of the hidden forbidden corridor that he's been grooming them as useful pawns).
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Additional Skeeter possibility.
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!! Dumbledore did it
Dumbledore is mentioned in the fic as being extremely skilled at transfiguration. He has legitimate access to the Wizengamot proceedings, and so could have transfigured the relevant transcript to alter its text. It would have reverted on its own some hours or days later. Likewise, the wedding contract could have been transfigured from something tiny, or from thin air, and reverted within the vault after it had served its purpose (just because Harry couldn't transfigure air on his first try doesn't mean it's impossible). This would also explain Dumbledore's later "accidental" gift to the Weasley twins (it's pretty clear from their explorations of the hidden corridor that he's been grooming them as useful pawns).
Dumbledore is mentioned in the fic as being extremely skilled at transfiguration. He has legitimate access to the Wizengamot proceedings, and so could have transfigured the relevant transcript to alter its text. It would have reverted on its own some hours or days later. Likewise, the wedding contract could have been transfigured from something tiny, or from thin air, and reverted within the vault after it had served its purpose (just because Harry couldn't transfigure air on his first try doesn't mean it's impossible). This would also explain Dumbledore's later "accidental" gift to the Weasley twins (it's pretty clear from their explorations of the hidden corridor that he's been grooming them as useful pawns).
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[[WMG:Harry's father's rock is actually Harry's father.]]
James, either mortally wounded or otherwise doomed, transfigured himself into a rock.
*McGonigal claims this would be possible, but the transfiguration would have to be maintained and the subject would probably die after being untransfigured. Not necessarily a good idea, but not outside the abilities of James Animagus-by-Sixteen Potter.
*Dumbledore, desperately searching for "The power the dark lord knows not," can tell that James performed powerful magic on the rock and assumes that it is important. Otherwise, he knows that James ''is'' the rock, and knows that James will untransfigure at some crucial moment to save his son's life. The second would explain why no-one misses James' corpse.
*Alternatively, James can't untransform because rocks aren't conscious, and will only be put right (and then die, after a couple of days) when Harry tries to transfigure the rock into a gem.
James, either mortally wounded or otherwise doomed, transfigured himself into a rock.
*McGonigal claims this would be possible, but the transfiguration would have to be maintained and the subject would probably die after being untransfigured. Not necessarily a good idea, but not outside the abilities of James Animagus-by-Sixteen Potter.
*Dumbledore, desperately searching for "The power the dark lord knows not," can tell that James performed powerful magic on the rock and assumes that it is important. Otherwise, he knows that James ''is'' the rock, and knows that James will untransfigure at some crucial moment to save his son's life. The second would explain why no-one misses James' corpse.
*Alternatively, James can't untransform because rocks aren't conscious, and will only be put right (and then die, after a couple of days) when Harry tries to transfigure the rock into a gem.
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Yudkowsky definitely knows about the show ("Breaking Drill Hex" has the incantation * Lagann!* ), and something like Spiral Power would integrate well with Muggle science while still throwing everything Harry knows about the universe for a complete loop.
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Yudkowsky definitely knows about the show ("Breaking Drill Hex" has the incantation * Lagann!* *Lagann!* ), and something like Spiral Power would integrate well with Muggle science while still throwing everything Harry knows about the universe for a complete loop.loop.
It would also explain how [[spoiler:Hermione won battles]]: being someone who makes friends and fights for them, she has access to more Spiral Power than ManipulativeBastard Draco or Chaotic Neutral Harry
It would also explain how [[spoiler:Hermione won battles]]: being someone who makes friends and fights for them, she has access to more Spiral Power than ManipulativeBastard Draco or Chaotic Neutral Harry
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[[WMG: Magic in MoR-verse comes from [[GurrenLagann Spiral Power]].]]
Yudkowsky definitely knows about the show ("Breaking Drill Hex" has the incantation *Lagann!*), and something like Spiral Power would integrate well with Muggle science while still throwing everything Harry knows about the universe for a complete loop.
Yudkowsky definitely knows about the show ("Breaking Drill Hex" has the incantation *Lagann!*), and something like Spiral Power would integrate well with Muggle science while still throwing everything Harry knows about the universe for a complete loop.
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* Harry seems like a likely culprit, given the amount of magiscientific knowledge he will probably later gain. He could either create the Canon!Timeline so he can become BookDumb but happy, but the more likely scenario, given the personalities of Harry and the author, is that, paradoxically, he creates the Logic!Timeline. Quirrel is almost certainly one of the people who remembers everything, as evidenced by his gauging Harry's reaction at mentioning the use of an unknown dark spell by a sixth-year and a few other things that haven't happened but did in the books.
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* WordOfGod dismisses this. In the Author's Note to (IIRC, have since been deleted) Chapter 32-33, Eliezer states (quoting from memory) "for Peter Pettigrew to go into hiding, of all places, as a pet rat in an enemy wizard family would require him to be holding the IdiotBall".
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** Harry hasn't used the journal as of chapter 37: [[spoiler: "Harry hadn't even started yet on learning Latin so he could read the experimental diary of Roger Bacon."]]
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I added a note on the Superintelligent AI theory about how such an AI might already exist as the "Source of Magic" from Chapter 29
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*Magic itself may be generated by a super-intelligent AI. In chapter 25, Harry ponders: [[spoiler: "The line of reasoning continued: Atlantis had been an isolated civilization that had somehow brought into being the Source of Magic, and told it to serve only people with the Atlantean genetic marker, the blood of Atlantis. ... So the words and wand movements were just triggers, levers pulled on some hidden and more complex machine."]]
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* Harry Potter himself under the influence of Roger Bacon/Tom Riddle's diary. After eight chapters it has to have taker some effect.
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* Severus Snape. He is the ''Head of Slytherin House'', after all!
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* [[{{Gargoyles}} David Xanatos himself.]] It's been established that there are tales similar to Gargoyles in this reality for wizarding kind so assuming they're true it wouldn't be too outlandish to have Xanatos or one of his descendants really having a hand in Hogwarts.
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!! Mr. Hat and Cloak
* Anyone who can successfully pull off a 6 layer XanatosRoulette is a prime candidate.
[[WMG: Mr. Hat and Cloak is...]]
* The Author
!! Mr. Hat and Cloak
* Anyone who can successfully pull off a 6 layer XanatosRoulette is a prime candidate.
[[WMG: Mr. Hat and Cloak is...]]
* The Author
