Harry placed the hat on his head, as he’d done during the sorting ceremony. “You should remember our earlier conversation,” Harry reminded the Sorting Hat.
Err… didn’t Harry/Eliezer have some arbitrary ethical problem with creating temporary conscious beings like that? If I recall, he made dramatic oaths about not doing it again and probably swore people to secrecy on the subject.
Reminds me of Tom Swifties. For instance:
Harry placed the hat on his head, as he’d done during the sorting ceremony. “You should remember our earlier conversation,” Harry reminded the Sorting Hat.
Heh, took me a bit to get that one (for those as dense as me, the pun is in “reminded”).
“Upvoting both joke and explanation”, he remarked.
Err… didn’t Harry/Eliezer have some arbitrary ethical problem with creating temporary conscious beings like that? If I recall, he made dramatic oaths about not doing it again and probably swore people to secrecy on the subject.
Yeah, it’s just a joke (more specifically, a pun (more specifically, a Tom Swifty)).
Comment on material of instantiation orthogonal to joke concept.