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* Did Dumbledore check Quirrel's documents when Quirinus applied to school staff? Quirrel claims to be Slytherin, but [[spoiler: the real Quirinus Quirrel was a Ravenclaw]], that already must have made Albus cautious. It's just... not Dumbledore's style to merely circle Q as the new DADA professor without making an investigation on his true identity. And yet Quirrel says that Dumbledore is oblivious to his [[spoiler: not actually]] true identity and agreed to not inquire.
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** Since a Squib is simply someone nonmagical who has magical parents, it could really be a whole host of different genetic combinations. Harry theorizes that the Muggle parents of Muggleborns may in fact be Squibs, as such having one copy of the recessive magical gene each, creating a one in four chance that any of their children would become magical. As for "fullblood Squibs", it could be something as simple as a genetic error suppressing one or both copies of the magical gene; it could be a random mutation; it could be same sort of thing that happens when two homozygotic parents of a recessive gene still end up passing on a dominant gene (for instance blond parents having a dark-haired baby). It could even be that the magical gene (or set of genes) is ''not'' recessive, but simply rare.
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* Why did Harry give up on the tactic for achieving godhood by manipulating his sense of humor and drinking comed-tea? "Drawing the causality arrows backwards" does not explain why this wouldn't work: it was not thirst that lead Harry to buy comed-tea, and if the effects of comed-tea are significant enough to cause all the changes in events necessary to make him buy a lot of comed-tea at that moment, it is at least still extremely powerful. In the same vein, it seems at least implausible that Harry and Draco would come across so many things to cough up their drinks for, relative to normal days, which also provides evidence for the fact that comed-tea increases the probability of funny things happening. This means that at worst, you could work the stock market of the entertainment industry by watching the comed-tea sales, and at best comed-tea constrains all possible universes retroactively to ones where something subjectively funny is about to happen, still making godhood through comed-tea possible. Even if you can make arguments for how it might not work, the point is that Harry never scientifically/rationally determined it couldn't work.
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*** Carbon nanotubes are nanoscience; the molecules could have separated and been inhaled by anyone in the area. This is dangerous due to real-life concerns about nanoscience and in-universe transfiguration sickness.
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Found the specific reference, correcting my previous edit
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** Specifically, Death Eaters can't cast a Patronus because they've committed murder or other heinous crimes; in at least fanon if not canon, taking the Dark Mark requires some kind of crime (How that works out with Snape is its own issue).
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** Specifically, Death Eaters (minus Snape) can't cast a Patronus [[http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript according to Rowling,]] "because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses"; in at least fanon if not canon, it's because they've committed murder or other heinous crimes; in at least fanon if not canon, taking crimes, which is required to take the Dark Mark requires some kind of crime (How that works out with Snape is its own issue).
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Could be wrong, but the info is accurate as far as I understand. Figured it couldn\'t hurt, and if I\'m wrong feel free to delete or edit in the correct info after.
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**Specifically, Death Eaters can't cast a Patronus because they've committed murder or other heinous crimes; in at least fanon if not canon, taking the Dark Mark requires some kind of crime (How that works out with Snape is its own issue).
**Specifically, Death Eaters can't cast a Patronus because they've committed murder or other heinous crimes; in at least fanon if not canon, taking the Dark Mark requires some kind of crime (How that works out with Snape is its own issue).
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** He doesn't seem to reference ''StarTrek'' either, even though 1991 is at the height of height of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''[='s=] popularity (not to mention ''StarTrekVI'' was in theaters). Maybe Harry just doesn't like mainstream science fiction. (But then again, he references ''StarWars''... )
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** He doesn't seem to reference ''StarTrek'' ''Franchise/StarTrek'' either, even though 1991 is at the height of height of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''[='s=] ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''[='s=] popularity (not to mention ''StarTrekVI'' ''Film/{{Star Trek VI|The Undiscovered Country}}'' was in theaters). Maybe Harry just doesn't like mainstream science fiction. (But then again, he references ''StarWars''... )
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** With the Dursleys: Harry gets worked to the bone and is forced to wake up early to do things like prepare breakfast or suffer the consequences of the Dursleys' wrath. If he had natural Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (or rather, a strong predisposition towards developing it), he would have had it tormented out of him and wouldn't even have noticed the difference with no comparison group beyond Dudley and some normal people. With the Verreses: Harry gets treated fairly, but Mr. Verres and Petunia might not have been willing to cause Harry the sort of stress and immune suppression that forcing him to stay awake during the day for several months would have taken, which can be necessary by the time Acquired Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is noticeable enough to cause social and health problems. Since state schools are notoriously horrible when it comes to getting an excellent education (YourMileageMayVary depending on the school and the student regarding a standard education), and cheap, desperate-for-payment tutors were available, the typical reason for going through sleep retraining (school, or jobs for older people) no longer applies.
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** With the Dursleys: Harry gets worked to the bone and is forced to wake up early to do things like prepare breakfast or suffer the consequences of the Dursleys' wrath. If he had natural Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (or rather, a strong predisposition towards developing it), he would have had it tormented out of him and wouldn't even have noticed the difference with no comparison group beyond Dudley and some normal people. With the Verreses: Harry gets treated fairly, but Mr. Verres and Petunia might not have been willing to cause Harry the sort of stress and immune suppression that forcing him to stay awake during the day for several months would have taken, which can be necessary by the time Acquired Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is noticeable enough to cause social and health problems. Since state schools are notoriously horrible when it comes to getting an excellent education (YourMileageMayVary depending on the school and the student regarding a standard education), education, and cheap, desperate-for-payment tutors were available, the typical reason for going through sleep retraining (school, or jobs for older people) no longer applies.
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** The reason for that is pretty simple - Harry and Draco are both kids, so even if they are supposed to be smart for their age in this story, it doesn't change the fact that some things elude them. Draco understood that muggleborns aren't making magic weaker, but he couldn't see that they were descendants of squibs since Harry didn't convey this one to him. And honestly, they didn't need to be descendants of squibs - if wizard had a child with a completely non-magical muggle, the resulting child would be a carrier of the wizarding gene, but couldn't use magic. If the gene was still there after a few generations, everyone would forget that there was a wizard in the family, but that doesn't stop the possibility of two carriers getting lucky (or not) and having a child that is capable of using magic.
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* Harry is supposed to be an English science fiction fan in 1991-1992.Admittedly it was cancelled in 1989, but...where are the Doctor Who references?
** I suspect that the (American) author probably doesn't know DoctorWho very well.
** I suspect that the (American) author probably doesn't know DoctorWho very well.
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* Harry is supposed to be an English science fiction fan in 1991-1992. Admittedly it was cancelled in 1989, but...where are the Doctor Who references?
** I suspect that the (American) author probably doesn't knowDoctorWho ''Series/DoctorWho'' very well.
** I suspect that the (American) author probably doesn't know
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** Harry is more into science fiction literature rather than television. There are exceptions, but generally most of his references are to literary work.
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*** In chapter 28, "phasers" are one of the things Hermione tried to transfigure and Harry lists Captain Picard as one of his heroes in chapter 52. (I wonder if Harry hated missing TNG's fifth season while being without televisions at Hogwarts. Maybe he had his parents tape it for me.)
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*** In chapter 28, "phasers" are one of the things Hermione tried to transfigure and Harry lists Captain Picard as one of his heroes in chapter 52. (I wonder if Harry hated missing TNG's fifth season while being without televisions at Hogwarts. Maybe he had his parents tape it for me.him.)
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*** In chapter 28, "phasers" are one of the things Hermione tried to transfigure and Harry lists Captain Picard as one of his heroes in chapter 52.
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*** In chapter 28, "phasers" are one of the things Hermione tried to transfigure and Harry lists Captain Picard as one of his heroes in chapter 52. (I wonder if Harry hated missing TNG's fifth season while being without televisions at Hogwarts. Maybe he had his parents tape it for me.)
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*** In chapter 28, "phasers" are one of the things Hermione tried to transfigure and Harry lists Captain Picard as one of his heroes in chapter 52.
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** In general, MOST of the mentioned Slytherins couldn't cast the Patronus Charm in canon, simply because so many of those mentioned were related to Death Eaters, who either couldn't or didn't need to cast it.
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*** Unless magic has similar effects to ionizing radiation.
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*** "A Squib is someone who was born into a wizarding family but hasn’t got any magic powers. Kind of the opposite of Muggle-born wizards, but Squibs are quite unusual."
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** Well, Snape really doesn't count, all things considered.
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** There is a difference between squibs and muggles besides parents. A squib can use some magical items like potions which would not work for a muggle. One issue is that a squib living in the muggle world is indistinguishable from a muggle as they would not interact with magic.
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** I don't think the Slytherin Patronus thing is canon either. It's never mentioned, plus you have Snape cast a Patronus in the 7th book (the doe).
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** The Interdict of Merlin does not exist in canon, as far as I know.
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* Was the whole "Slytherins don't/can't cast the Patronus Charm" something that showed up in canon, or was it made up whole cloth? I don't really remember any Slytherins using it, but I can't recall it being stated outright. Likewise, what about Merlin's Interdiction?
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* Squib is someone who has magical parent but no magical abilities. muggle is someone who has no magical parents and no magical abilities. So how can a child of a magical and a muggle parent be "either magical, or squbi, or muggle?" If one parent is magical, the child can't be muggle anymore.
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** Because water is more dense than air, it makes things go upward much faster than normal. So you cast it on someone and they're no longer anywhere near you. Or you cast it on an object and let it go flying into someone above it.
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** You can use it to move people in lots of different directions, or simply that people stay in a given orientation when the Charm is lifted?
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***** Harry didn't have to ''know'' that timeless physics was right, he was ''experimenting''. He was testing the hypothesis that partial transfiguration is a conceptual limit and he tried several views/approaches - several were disproved, one of them happened to be right. That's how science works, you check your ideas with experiments.\\
As for safety issues? Did you miss the part where, after he goes to Minerva&Dumbledore, he apologizes to Hermione and later admits that what he was doing was crazy/very dangerous?
As for safety issues? Did you miss the part where, after he goes to Minerva&Dumbledore, he apologizes to Hermione and later admits that what he was doing was crazy/very dangerous?
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*** Eliezer said that he's ignoring dates and times when it comes to science&scientific theories - he's presenting the most modern available view, even if it's incompatible with the 1991 timeline. If you want an in-universe explanation, just assume that those theories/discoveries have been made earlier in MoRverse.
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* In chapter 33, Harry suspects, and confirms, that [[spoiler:Wingardium Leviosa becomes a whole new sort of weapon once everyone is swimming underwater]]. So, how does it change?
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** This is freaking magic. Ahem: "the Universe doesn't care how ''you'' think magic should work any more than it cares how you feel about gravity.''
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**** But if it's only a theory to begin with and the only thing in it's favor is that it hasn't been proven wrong, then how can Harry be so sure that Timeless Physics would allow partial transmutation in the first place? Isn't that the equivalent of taking a controversial theory as [[TheColbertReport pure truthiness]] and not accepting an answer otherwise, even if it does cause the meltdown of reality as we know it? That seems like a big ass case of Harry Bias right there, especially right after Harry learned his lesson about playing around with Transfiguration.
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**** But if it's only a theory to begin with and the only thing in it's favor is that it hasn't been proven wrong, then how can Harry be so sure that Timeless Physics would allow partial transmutation in the first place? Isn't that the equivalent of taking a controversial theory as [[TheColbertReport pure truthiness]] and not accepting an answer otherwise, even if it does cause the meltdown of reality as we know it? That seems like a big ass case of Harry Bias right there, especially right after Harry learned his lesson about playing around with Transfiguration.Transfiguration and "DO NOT MESS WITH TIME" even earlier.
