History Funny / HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality

'''Draco:''' Indeed. Though your wish is understandable enough. Tell me, what House do you think you might be sorted into? I'm bound for Slytherin House, of course, like my father Lucius before me. And for you, I should guess House Hufflepuff, or possibly [[IncrediblyLamePun House Elf]].\\

** The later revelation that [[spoiler: it was killed by Dumbledoor to fulfill a prophesy. Dumbledoor has no idea why.]]

'''Harry''': [[SkewedPriorities SNAKES ARE SENTIENT?]]
** This seems closer to OnlySaneMan than SkewedPriorities. The discovery that he has a rare magical power is now a twice-in-a-lifetime discovery for muggle-born Harry, to whom ''magic'' is a rare magical power. The discovery that Harry has a famous ancestor from 800 years ago is possibly an interesting piece of trivia, but it was 40 generations ago. There's no logical reason to believe it says anything in particular about Harry. The discovery that there's an '''entire suborder''' of sapient, language-capable animals is the scientific discovery of the century, and ''Harry is a scientist''.

* Chapter 108: Quirrell tells the story of the Dark Evangel, who intended to announce her conquest by calling herself the Walking Catastrophe and the Apostle of Darkness, but flubbed the line and called herself the Apostrophe of Darkness. She had to annihilate two entire villages before anyone would take her seriously. Funny enough on its own, but since she's obviously Eva from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', we know that this is ''completely in character for her''.

'''Harry:''' So they've been told their whole lives that they're going to be your minions and they've spent years imagining what minions are supposed to be like and what's worse, they ''do'' know each other and they've been ''practicing''

* The result of Harry's experiment with the Time Turner in Chapter 17. [[spoiler:DO NOT MESS WITH TIME]]

* Chapter 84: Quirrell reduces a trained Auror to a gibbering wreck. By ''[[EarWorm humming]]''

* Chapter 84: Quirrell reduces a trained Auror to a gibbering wreck. By ''[[EarWorm hum]][[CoolAndUnusualPunishment ming]]''

** Even funnier when you realize that [[spoiler:Quirrel is basically calling himself a Death Eater]].

-->At the Gryffindor table, where a cake waited with fifty-one unlit candles, Fred whispered, "I think we may be out of our league here, George." And from that day onward, no matter what Hermione tried to tell anyone, it would be an [[InvokedTrope accepted legend of Hogwarts]] that Harry Potter [[MemeticBadass could make absolutely anything happen by snapping his fingers]].

* Harry scaring a Dementor away by saying, "BOO!". Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
-->'''Harry:''' I make you this one offer. I never learn that you've been interfering with me or any of mine. And you never find out why the unkillable soul-eating monster is scared of me. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Now sit down and shut up.]]

* Harry and Quirell discussing the aftereffects of a prank ritual, involving some TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Chaos gods, a Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer demon and an [[CthulhuMythos Old One]]:

*** Hufflepuff gets a few of these throughout this arc. In chapter 59...