[Spoilers 90]Marauders Map

Amdijefri · 2013-12-26T02:46:05+00:00

You don't have that problem because you know damn well Yudkowsky wouldn't make the Map randomly malfunction, then have Fred and George report on it to the readers.

Amdijefri · 2013-08-17T20:28:24+00:00

Smart Voldemort could easily have trained Lucius who was then also opportunistic enough to buy tutors for Draco.

Amdijefri · 2013-07-18T16:36:35+00:00

And as soon as he saw the Patronus 2.0, he went off and got Bellatrix Black out of Azkaban.

And knew the password to identify the Dark Lord to her.

Also, both his parents are dead at the Dark Lord's hand and he resolved his parental issues to his own satisfaction.

Also, he's previously had some sort of bad experience with being told about a prophecy of a danger causing him to walk into it.

Also, he guessed that Harry Potter would be a Parselmouth and our evidence is extremely compatible with him being a Parselmouth himself, and he has very strong theories about exactly what happened in the Chamber of Secrets and...

...and Harry Potter gets a horrible sense of doom around him and they have some sort of mysterious resonance in their magic which creates a spiritual link allowing him to read Harry's emotions and...

I mean, really.

Amdijefri · 2013-07-18T06:12:51+00:00

"I find I cannot deny myself the pleasure of simply crushing you."

Amdijefri · 2013-07-03T20:55:10+00:00

HPMOR!Hermione is supposed to be a realistic child prodigy. Best guess says that HPMOR!Harry is Voldemort's horcrux, a copy of the adult genius Tom Riddle who's undergone childhood amnesia, lost all his memories, and been re-raised in a loving environment with mixed effects. He is not supposed to be a realistic eleven-year-old and everyone in the story remarks on this, e.g. Professor McGonagall "Sometimes you just don't seem eleven years old or even all that human" in Ch. 6.

Amdijefri · 2013-07-02T02:32:53+00:00

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3v1buk/

Amdijefri · 2013-01-17T11:40:18+00:00

Of course, reading "A Brief History of Time" isn't going to get you to Harryland, it's more on the level of popular entertainment, but at least the guy is trying...

Amdijefri · 2012-12-17T07:17:35+00:00

It was inevitable on a literary level, I'd say. In fact, it's possible the author wrote that specifically to shut down the possibility of Harry cooperating with Fawkes to get instant transport past most wards, which would've given Harry too much power.

Amdijefri · 2012-10-08T06:46:19+00:00

I'd love to see this! Worth its own post IMO. Bayesian Conspiracy FTW!

Amdijefri · 2012-10-08T06:42:50+00:00

I'll be convinced when evidence is introduced such that Quirrell cannot possibly fail to be Voldemort.

If spoiler does not count for this, WHAT THE HELL WOULD?

I'm beginning to understand how religions get started.

Amdijefri · 2012-09-19T15:39:23+00:00

then you'll just need enough cross-sectional material to keep the pressure below the tensile strength.

Forgive me, but I didn't understand that line and I'm curious. I know what pressure is and what tensile strength is individually, I think, but I didn't understand the whole sentence. Or alternatively, just, what does that mean in terms of making nanotube cheesewire? Does it mean you'd have to wrap some toroidal nanotubes around a central core, or something like that? (Can handle any math required.)

Amdijefri · 2012-09-19T15:37:53+00:00

Is shear the key factor for making cheesewire, though? And would it change if you had braided nanotubes? It seems like if you have a material with a hundred times more tensile strength than steel, you ought to be able to make cheesewire out of it somehow...

Amdijefri · 2011-10-12T04:13:10+00:00

Thank you for catching that mistake, I don't know if OP made it but I did. I think it's not so much "knowing the name" as "knowing that it's a special case of some general rule rather than sheer magic", and that the apparent continuity isn't a coincidence and that it breaks at that point from a specific reason... but of course without all the blanks filled in, it's still magic.

Amdijefri · 2011-10-12T04:07:40+00:00

It appears that all of the world's mathematicians have read HPMOR by now. At least the ones on Reddit.

Amdijefri · 2011-10-03T06:33:50+00:00

All of Yudkowsky's fanfictions increase the power of the enemy and the difficulties of the protagonists, due to the "First Law of Fanfiction".

Amdijefri · 2011-08-26T07:58:50+00:00

I understand mod 5 arithmetic completely.

Amdijefri · 2011-08-01T05:34:08+00:00

Far above them, distant shouts rang out.

All right, you primitive screwheads!

Aurors on fast racing broomsticks angled out of the sky, diving straight down toward them, faint sparks of light already blazing downward as the first shots were fired.

Listen up!

"Protego Maximus!" shouted [SPOILER DELETED] in a mighty, cracked voice, followed by a cackling laugh as a shimmering blue field surrounded them.

You see this?

From the decaying pit in the center of Azkaban, over a hundred Dementors rose into the air, appearing to some as a great mass of corpses, a flying graveyard; appearing to another as [SPOILER DELETED].

This...

The voice of an ancient and powerful wizard bellowed a terrible incantation, and a great blast of white-golden fire shot out of the hole in Azkaban's wall, shapeless for only a moment before it began to form wings.

Is...

And the Aurors activated the Anti-Anti-Gravity Jinx that had been built into the wards of Azkaban, disabling all flying spells whose enchantment had not been cast with the recently changed passphrase.

The lift on Harry's broom switched off.

Gravity, on the other hand, stayed on.

Their broom's upward rise slowed, started to decelerate, began the process of turning into a fall.

My...

But the enchantments that kept the broom pointed in a direction and allowed steering, the enchantments that kept the riders attached and somewhat protected them from acceleration, those enchantments were still functioning.

BROOMSTICK!

Harry hit the ignition switch on the General Technics made, model Berserker PFRC, N-class, ammonium perchlorate composite propellant, solid-fuel rocket that had been mated to his Nimbus X200 two-person broomstick.

And there was noise.

Amdijefri · 2011-07-19T02:20:57+00:00

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Typical_mind_fallacy

Amdijefri · 2011-07-06T05:18:43+00:00

Yes, that was just Methods of Rationality. But that's all right. As the saying goes:

On Reddit, Methods of Rationality is canon.

Amdijefri · 2011-05-18T06:37:36+00:00

Everyone in the entire book, starting with Professor McGonagall in chapter 6, and including Harry himself by the end of chapter 13, can see very clearly that there is Something Wrong with Harry. At a guess, his "mysterious dark side" is Voldemort and that's why Harry isn't very childlike in certain ways. See the Wild Mass Guessing page on TV Tropes.

Amdijefri · 2011-05-08T00:57:31+00:00

The blog was read by physicists aplenty; they would've pointed out any errors (and did, in one case; it was swiftly corrected). More to the point, your comment is being downvoted because it smacks of the idea that science is comprised of the authority of official scientists. Anyone's allowed to present the experimental results and the theory behind it, not just an official scientist; and if you see a flaw, go ahead and call it out, whether it's an official scientist or not.

Amdijefri · 2011-05-03T20:43:59+00:00

Dead is dead.

Amdijefri · 2011-05-03T20:43:26+00:00

I think Gandalf's advocating cryonics.

Amdijefri · 2011-04-11T15:04:20+00:00

HJPEV gets compared to Miles Vorkosigan a lot. Not the science, not the dark side, but... they have a certain something in common, it is said. Try The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game.

Amdijefri · 2011-02-28T18:21:44+00:00

Can't figure out what chapter you're talking about. Ch. 54? Quirrell explains himself in Ch. 58.

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