Wow. I see now what EY meant when he said it wasn’t fair to criticize HPMOR as sexist before it was done. I finished reading the last chapter with the feeling that this was actually an origin story for Hermione.
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Brin seems to equate ‘rational’ with ‘non-violent’. They’re not always the same thing.
Why is Harry special? His sleep cycle? Anybody can use a time turner.
In the text, they made it clear that the vow was based on the meaning of the words and not the words itself. V said that it was important that everyone understood the meaning.
Harry would not consider star lifting or terraforming or the creation of a virtual world at the expense of the actual one to be ‘destroying the world’. He would considering ‘destroying the world’ to mean ‘the ending of all life’ or somesuch.
Did Harry time-turn the day Hermione died, and, if so, what did he do?
Yes. When he went into the room with Hermione’s body, he turned the time turner and transfigured her body into a ring while also transfiguring something else (presumably something very small) into a copy of Hermione’s body. He then hid from his past self and left the room just after his past self entered. After the transfiguration wore off, the ‘body’ dissapeared.
In canon, the map was made by Harry’s dad and his three friends.
QuirrelMort’s wand is in Quirrel’s hand.
Harry went to where Quirrell lay, and straightened out the body as best he could, and put Quirrell’s wand into his hand.
Voldemorts wand is the one that Harry took.
After rereading, I beleive that Mr White is Lucius Malfoy. Not only is the name an allusion to his hair, he is said to be less useful than he was in the past due to the fact that V will soon rule openly. In the past Lucius was V’s puppet in the Wizengamot.
Mr Write then proceeds to sacrifice most of his magic to bind Harry Potter. I suppose with him dead, this doesn’t matter.
I remember that part too. I had thought that they had searched all of Harry’s things. Upon re-reading the relevant part of Chapter 94, I now realise that they only searched his trunk and mokeskin pouch. If he left it in his bed it would have escaped detection.
By the way, why did Voldemort make a description of Hermione resurrection ritual and put it in a pouch if he planed to kill Harry anyway?
He was planning for the possibility of failure. If he failed to kill Harry, he wanted Harry to always have Hermione to consult.
I woke up in the middle of the night with an idea that could still be true, but wasn’t needed in Chapter 114-115. It had bothered me that the Hermione toe-ring wasn’t detected. In fact, it was explicitly checked for magic and it was discovered that it was portkey magic rather than transfiguration magic.
Overnight, I had the idea that perhaps Harry put his portkey toering on Hermione’s body (though obviously not her toe) before he transfigured her. I have no idea how such things work, but I suppose its possible that the portkey magic would still be detectible when transfigured and would even mask out the transfiguration magic.
If she does, she’ll have to do it with only one arm.
I see it also. I believe that broke her out as a backup plan in case his attempt to get the stone failed. He could then always grab a peice of Bellatrix and a peice of an enemy (Harry? Someone else?) and come back that way.
I agree. A carbon nanotube metres long and whipped around fast. And Hermione screaming, “Harry!!!”
You may be on to something. Merlin created his Interdict with exactly that sacrifice.
+1 for using ‘Boltzmann’ as a verb.
Some 11 year olds aren’t interested in sex yet. Others are forks of an adult Tom Riddle who similarly isn’t interested in sex.
It the simulation were infinitly parrallel and all simulations that weren’t consistent crashed, the Harry that made the observation about the loop would necessarily be in a self-consistent simulation.
Thanks for your great story. I particularly enjoyed ‘Swimming Upstream’.
I’m much earlier in my journey and the milestones are probably different than yours. In Australia, a PhD is 3 years and I don’t know if you get much choice on committee selection. As it happens, I haven’t even started it yet as I am currently doing an Honours research project to prove my research bona fides.
My first challenge is to find a way to pay for my PhD. In Australia, you can get a salary to do a PhD, but it is 1⁄4 of my current salary and I have kids to feed. I have a plan to convince my company to pay for my PhD and a backup plan involving continuous part-time research to make a name and cover some important background over the next five years until my children are grown.
This year, my research is in Computer Vision. Next year if I can start my PhD, it will be in real—time scene interpretation. If I don’t start my PhD, I will have more freedom to choose my topic—so I want to make it a topic that serves my long-term interests.