No, man. It’s era-appropriate and one of the few examples of Weasley awesomeness. It made me grin like a maniac when I read it. I think maybe having Rationalist!Harry chant the chorus was a bit off, but then, people do occasionally show odd bursts of confidence in front of strangers in humorous situations. It’s a bit of a character-shift, but appropriate for the circumstance.
Edit: Months later, I just looked at the change, and it saddens me a fair bit. The replacement text feels like filler in comparison, and I’m afraid that when I convince people to try MOR they won’t see him in the same awesome light I did so quickly. I feel like some of rationalist!Harry’s mischievousness has been removed. I mean, I was almost pattern-matching him to a rationalist Bobobobo, but I enjoyed it.
It wasnt bad Eneasz. Honestly, I will try to sing it some day and it will be way worse than yours but less awkward because I am not making the coolest thing ever for the rest of the interwebz trust me xD anyway tell Hermione shes AWESOME for me.
However I think you meant to direct this comment to Eliezer. I’m simply translating the coolest thing ever into audio format, he is doing the actual creating.
I didn’t understand the song (I haven’t watched Ghostbusters), but I think the existence of a song itself to Harry, when he’s walking down to the selector hat is a nice, funny point in the history.
That’s why I think it must to be kept. It’s one of those things that actually makes sense in the HPMOR world.
I’m very much in favor of removing the Ghostbusters song from canon, and putting it in the Omakes.
No, man. It’s era-appropriate and one of the few examples of Weasley awesomeness. It made me grin like a maniac when I read it. I think maybe having Rationalist!Harry chant the chorus was a bit off, but then, people do occasionally show odd bursts of confidence in front of strangers in humorous situations. It’s a bit of a character-shift, but appropriate for the circumstance.
Edit: Months later, I just looked at the change, and it saddens me a fair bit. The replacement text feels like filler in comparison, and I’m afraid that when I convince people to try MOR they won’t see him in the same awesome light I did so quickly. I feel like some of rationalist!Harry’s mischievousness has been removed. I mean, I was almost pattern-matching him to a rationalist Bobobobo, but I enjoyed it.
I agree, though the version in the podcast is super awkward
I was extremely self-conscious and awkward while doing it, I’m not surprised it came through.
It wasnt bad Eneasz. Honestly, I will try to sing it some day and it will be way worse than yours but less awkward because I am not making the coolest thing ever for the rest of the interwebz trust me xD anyway tell Hermione shes AWESOME for me.
I will let her know. :)
However I think you meant to direct this comment to Eliezer. I’m simply translating the coolest thing ever into audio format, he is doing the actual creating.
I didn’t understand the song (I haven’t watched Ghostbusters), but I think the existence of a song itself to Harry, when he’s walking down to the selector hat is a nice, funny point in the history.
That’s why I think it must to be kept. It’s one of those things that actually makes sense in the HPMOR world.