But it does not serve as a solution to say, for example, “Harry should persuade Voldemort to let him out of the box” if you can’t yourself figure out how.
It’s a shame that nobody’s going along this line of thought. It would be cool to see a full, successful AI-Box experiment out there as a fanfiction.
(I’d do it myself, but my previous attempts at such have been.… eheh. Less than successful.)
Was it?
I really don’t think the alternative was better than the canonical “Harry gets her out of there at a reasonably low cost considering all the myriad ways he has of making tons of money”.
I mean, given that his opponent turned out to be Quirrell, maybe, but otherwise...
Which earlier mistakes were these?
To be fair to Harry, neither of those are good examples—Voldemort’s plan also had Hermione in Azkaban thinking she had murdered Draco Malfoy for two weeks, which would have had… unpleasant effects on her mental health, and there’s a pretty sharp limit to how much you can count “going along with a hostage situation at gunpoint” as “meddling.” A mistake, yes, intentional meddling, no.
Don’t think the curse actually enforces oaths, just ensures that you’re telling the truth at the time you said it.
Besides, Voldemort, from his point of view, isn’t harming Hermione—since, after all, he just went ridiculously out of his way to make sure she wouldn’t care.
I would guess that the True Patronus would fail in that case, because it is no longer true that “the only thing wrong with this body is that it’s dead.”
Something about that line reminded me of a very, very old quote:
Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line...
(black robes, falling)
...blood spills out in litres, and someone screams a word.
We’ve got the robes and the moonlight and the context, but… Harry’s naked, so that can’t be Harry falling and Hermione screaming. I … don’t think Harry would scream for Voldemort at this point.
… So. That was a thing.
Let’s see here. My current best guess for Voldy’s extremely redundant anti-apocalypse plan looks something like this:
1) Kill Harry Potter. 2) Thoroughly kill Harry Potter with thirty-odd Death Eaters. 3) Have Harry Potter kill himself 4) Convince Harry Potter that if all else fails and he somehow manages to, I don’t know, stab himself in the Resurrection Stone and set off a chain reaction that throws his other 108 Horcruxes into the Sun, he’ll kill himself anyway 5) If he doesn’t kill himself, ensure that Hermione Granger is around to keep him sane.
Extremely confused.
Worried for Harry, worried for Harry’s morality, which immediately leads into “wait what exactly did they do to me*”?
...
Seriously, EY? You split it up into two chapters just for that? -.-
It is if the poison’s effect is to make the person a complete drooling moron.
Google Bahl’s Stupefaction, and then Idiot Ball.
General prophecy shenanigans. There are now two different prophecies orbiting Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, one of which certainly seems to imply that he’s going to survive to destroy the world. Obvious, predictable solutions are likely to fail.
You can retract your entire post in the bottom-right corner.
Be stupid?
There’s no excuse for letting Harry have his stuff back, after all.
On a side note—Blood Fort sacrifice, hm? *amused*
“Fal-Tor-Pan” similarly, though I had to Google that one.
Partially, blindness due to not wanting to be bored again. Friendship is magic and alicorn princesses :p.
Partially, because he’s not sure that he can kill Harry.
If your prediction is lower than 50%, what you’re really saying is, “Of all the hypotheses I that have been elevated to my attention, this one is most likely; however, I am so uncertain that I am more likely to be wrong than right.”
Or in other words, to paraphrase Eliezer, I’m fairly sure that random person’s name isn’t Klein, but I’m very sure it’s not Ktlzybplq.
I think it’s mostly because of Trelawney’s prophecy. The second Hermione died, Trelawney blurts out: “HE IS HERE. THE ONE WHO WILL TEAR APART THE VERY STARS IN HEAVEN. HE IS HERE. HE IS THE END OF THE WORLD.”
Which, y’know. Is a tad ominous.
… oh dear gods I wish I had not made that connection.
Um. I really really hope that’s not indicative of how horrible what he did to Snape was...
He doesn’t actually know that ritual, though. Quirrell does stuff with his wand and Harry knows better than to just blindly copy whatever off his memory.
The resurrection ritual, as near as I can tell, requires only going to that obelisk, placing flesh on the slab, and saying “X, X, X so wisely hidden”, where “X” is whatever you you have—blood, flesh, bone, vitreous humors of the eye, whatever.
About ten chapters ago.