Anecdotal: I used to be afraid of guns (and also subscribe to the political spectrum that was afraid of guns), but frequent exposure to guns has changed this. I don’t think having a healthy respect for something so dangerous is bad at all, but my brain used to just shut down at the word “gun” and I couldn’t be at all neutral about it. Now I think they’re kind of cool. If you are working at all on desensitizing your phobia, that might be an interesting post (although I realize this series is officially complete).
LauralH
My guess was that he has Murphy’s Law as a power.
The problem with “exercise” is that it takes a LOT of exercise to lose weight. To lose 20 lbs I had to do StairMaster an hour five days a week, with strength training in-between. It’s a lot more effective to eat better.
I honestly am not buying the degree of Pera’s skittishness with respect to Bella. Their meeting wasn’t even that traumatic, she lunged and was restrained and unhid. As a vampire it should barely register. Did Chelsea increase her minor fear of Bella?
The best “theory” I read was that only the person who makes the Stone can drink the Elixir, which would explain why only Mr and Mrs Flamel have benefited from it.
Well, Quirrell thinks that the Dementor at Hogwarts tells him that he’ll hunt him down....
Ooooh, and Tied for Last!
(well, that’s just a Riddle/Granger ship fic, but very well done, WITHOUT time travel.)
Wow, now I sorta want to write this… well, the first paragraph anyway. BIBLE/POTTER CROSSOVERS!
Speaking as the middle of 5 kids—having a bunch of kids close to the same age like that can get expensive, and Molly didn’t work.
Most likely 4...p>.9
More than 2!
Likely, he read F/G or Ron’s mind.
I thought it was funny. Because I’m not a Libertarian!
disclaimer: I am a libertarian.
Another way to look at this (link me if someone’s said this already) is as repeated matches of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. The winning strategy tends to be “Start nice then match what the other guy does.” So if Harry’s considering this Hermione/Draco thing as the beginning of Harry vs. Voldemort (prophecy baby wouldn’t count to him), no one died, it’s fairly obvious that no one was meant to die (well, after ten years Hermione might have been dead, but that wasn’t a given, Bellatrix and others from the last war have survived a decade), so Harry can hang on to his “no killing yet” stance for now.
Also, Harry really really doesn’t want to kill ANYONE. He didn’t even want to kill the nasty canon-style description of sadistic!Voldemort, for pete’s sake.
You’re writing this instead of Harry Potter fanfic? Sigh.
It’s just fanfic terms: “shipping wars” are people who argued over, say, Harry/Hermione vs. Ron/Hermione, and “OT3″ in that case would have been Harry/Hermione/Ron. (The original acronym was OTP=One True Pairing.)
I was under the impression that the HPMoR story was to entice people to become “more rational”, that is, get them to read more of the “day-job” stuff. There was also supposed to be an actual book on rationality, but it looks like that’s been put on hold as well. Which to me seemed like a wise decision, since more people were being led to simply read the sequences via HPMoR already, so why bother with a book?
...and that Fanfic is now 50 Shades of Gray.
My name is Laural, 33-yo female, degree in CS, fetish for EvPsych. Raised Mormon, got over it at 18 or so, became a staunch Darwinist at 25.
I’ve been reading OvercomingBias on and off for years, but I didn’t see this specific site till all the links to the Harry Potter fanfic came about. I had in fact just completed that series in May, so was quite excited to see the two things combined. But I think I wouldn’t have registered if I hadn’t read the AI Box page, which convinced me that EY was a genius. Personally, I am more interested in life-expansion than FAI. I’m most interested in changing social policy to legalize drugs, I suppose; if people are allowed to put whatever existing substances in their bodies, the substances that don’t yet exist have a better chance.