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.)
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Well some of it is faked, but he didn’t intend to get caught drinking Unicorns.
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).
All of them, as this is the first time Q hasn’t turned into his Snake form first…
Most likely 4...p>.9
On the first point : he can only be defeated by the Power He Knows Not!
Hm. I looked up the source and it looks like most of the “proof” is due to a few case studies. Not that anyone’s still reading this but just in case.
I think that’s more likely Quirrell actively casting that causes the anxiety.
Likely, he read F/G or Ron’s mind.
I thought it was that ALL of the horcruxes were updated to 2.0.
‘it’ in Quirrell’s rant is the true name dealio, not the Maurauder’s Map.
Point one: Snape originally stayed in love with Lily because of the lost chance. He actually did think he had a shot with her till he called her a mudblood, but Harry pointed out that in fact he never did. I mean some people fall in love and if their loved one dies, never date again, so I was assuming Snape’s feelings were of that variety. He knew they weren’t actually “dating” but he thought he’d had a chance before That Day. Now, Harry tells him “Sounds like this Guy never had a chance with that Girl ever, because she’s shallow.” So, yeah, hearing that he’s held on to these feelings for no reason instead of “if only I’d not called her a mudblood we’d have married”—I can see how hearing that you’ve really wasted your past 11 years of life can piss you off. His rage was due to changing his mind, but clearly Snape finds it hard to Not Shoot The Messenger.
Point two: It’s more that Dumbles probably had been insisting for years (in a more subtle way than I’m about to do) that Loving Lily made him a better person so he should continue to do so. But the axiom for Loving Lily—that he could possibly have been with her if he’d been a better person in the first place—has indeed shattered. I don’t think he’s mad b/c Lily was shallow specifically, but just that she never, ever, ever, would have been with him. So yeah, he’s trying to update on that new axiom.
Point three: as others have said, Snape Loves Lily is canon, but if you take that axiom above, it’s not quite that unrealistic. I knew a girl in college who didn’t date for 4 years after her boyfriend was killed in a car accident. And remember Snape thinks it’s his fault she died, too.
I used to read overcomingbias.com, a friend of mine often linked to it on Delicious, and I noticed I preferred EY’s posts in general.
I got out of the habit after I caught up with all his posts in 2009 or so (before this site came to be), but someone linked to chapter 5 of HPMoR and I was all WAIT A MINUTE THIS SOUNDS BLOODY FAMILIAR.
I was a little creeped, but more because she would be forgetting it rather than because of consent issues. She was the one asking him, after all. And as a character moment, it was huge—his first kiss! The rope of his love for Lily is shredding all the more! Will anything keep him as an agent of the Light?
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.
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.
More than 2!
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.
Ooooh, and Tied for Last!
(well, that’s just a Riddle/Granger ship fic, but very well done, WITHOUT time travel.)
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.