Nope, you are not correct. If anything the timer is the troll, badgering you and getting in your head and leading to sub-optimal decisions.
The working title was Time Pressure, and one might say its current alliterative name is a joke in poor taste.
(Explaining the joke + spoilers for anyone unfamiliar with HPMoR: Time Pressure was the title of a chapter where the main character has to think fast to keep a friend of his from being eaten by a troll, the kind with green skin and a big club. The panic of a ticking clock leads to missing some ideas he only thinks of later.)
(According to Eliezer, each tick denotes a “wasted motion”—something that Harry does or thinks that will nevertheless not influence his final course of action.)
Nope, you are not correct. If anything the timer is the troll, badgering you and getting in your head and leading to sub-optimal decisions.
The working title was Time Pressure, and one might say its current alliterative name is a joke in poor taste.
(Explaining the joke + spoilers for anyone unfamiliar with HPMoR: Time Pressure was the title of a chapter where the main character has to think fast to keep a friend of his from being eaten by a troll, the kind with green skin and a big club. The panic of a ticking clock leads to missing some ideas he only thinks of later.)
(According to Eliezer, each tick denotes a “wasted motion”—something that Harry does or thinks that will nevertheless not influence his final course of action.)
Ah, that troll.