If only Godric’s twin hadn’t been killed at birth...
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I think the percentages of ‘successful’ LW readers need to be recalculated. What percentage of LW readers were in the SSC survey, but started reading LW after the most profitable window for buying bitcoin had already passed? What percentage were students with no spare funds in 2011, or otherwise had too little risk tolerance to invest?
I started reading LW in 2014, took the advice of the 2015 post to the extent I could, but was only able to make a little money because I didn’t have any savings and 1 bitcoin was worth $200. Later, I heard about ethereum very early on from a friend who bought a bunch and was interested in investing myself, but was in the midst of a job transition where I again had no spare cash to invest. I only reported having acquired about $1000 from crypto on the survey, but I count myself as having done about as well as I could have, given circumstances and timing.
This only narrows Harry’s list to ‘The Defense Professor and people who could rig the wards to say the Defense Professor killed her.’ Dumbles is easily on that list.
My first thought was that Dumbledore was referring to Salazar Slytherin. However, there can certainly be additional interpretations.
Perhaps that Hermione is also Voldemort in the same way HJPEV is Voldemort (since, Horcrux or not, that seems the likely explanation for Harry’s power and bloodthirst)?
prolonged scream
(...but we know he is.)
What if Harry transfigured the bedsheet to look like Hermione, and the transfiguration wore off some time later?
Or he’s telling us that Quirrell is playing the role of someone who is on the verge of dying.
Maybe on ff.net as a one-shot spinoff?
According to this interview, Hermione no longer has a sister in canon either.
The relevant Q and A:
Does Hermione have any brothers or sisters?
No, she doesn’t. When I first made up Hermione I gave her a younger sister, but she was very hard to work in. The younger sister was not supposed to go to Hogwarts. She was supposed to remain a Muggle. It was a sideline that didn’t work very well and it did not have a big place in the story. I have deliberately kept Hermione’s family in the background. You see so much of Ron’s family so I thought that I would keep Hermione’s family, by contrast, quite ordinary. They are dentists, as you know. They are a bit bemused by their odd daughter but quite proud of her all the same.
Survey taken! Can’t wait to see the results.
Data point: your final paragraph is an accurate description of my expercience as well.
Thank you!
Thief’s Downfall probably does this.
The latter explanation was my assumption. I am curious whether this capacity loss transfers across bodies when one is possessing someone else or has been resurrected.
World dom… er, optimization doesn’t include politics?
For that, I’d point to undermind’s comment that this is only what Harry wants the Malfoys to know.
There might also be an element of Harry’s art as a rationalist being forgotten when he needs it most.
My model of Eliezer wouldn’t troll us that blatantly.
Then again, this is the guy who wrote Quirinius One-Level-Higher-Than-You Quirrell.
I think probably the latter. His conclusion is “So you really do care” not “So other people aren’t rational enough to try to ressurect their loved ones.”