Good thing we use M/D/Y calendars here in the States, otherwise we’d have to wait for 3 January 2041. Or, come to think of it, 3 January 4159.
MathMage
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Awww.
Awww.
I wonder how Harry would react to Death as written by Terry Pratchett?
Huh? Harry thought it was McGonagall. What in this chapter changes that?
Sad ending:
All the students agree to take on the position of Defense Professor de facto.
Next year, all the students die.
That’s the “sadder” ending, which is precisely what EY promised.
Ch. 84:
“I shall not name any names,” said the old witch. “But I shall tell a story, and see if it sounds familiar.” Amelia Bones looked back down, turning to the next parchment. “Born 1927, entered Hogwarts in 1938, sorted into Slytherin, graduated 1945.
Because it wasn’t a throwaway anymore. His plan was to take over magical Britain as Voldemort, and have both the ‘true’ respect that comes from fear of what he can do to people and the pleasure of killing idiots whenever he wants. (And possibly to exterminate the Muggle world, but first things first.)
What do you mean? He narrated the whole sequence before the explosion, and fell to his knees at the moment Voldemort supposedly died, which is coincident with the explosion. I don’t see a problem, let alone one that would be fixed by shifting the narrative back 20 seconds.
Nicolelle?
I would watch this.
BABA YAGA FAKED HER DEATH AND POSSESSED PERENELLE, TRUE STORY
Sorry, I think I’ve read too much Reddit today.
The interpretation where the Slytherins are playing to honor their fallen professor is much more straightforward.
It’s not entirely clear how Hermione’s troll/unicorn stuff interacts with the depletion of life-force necessary to fuel the Patronus. That said, she has a Horcrux, so at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter. And if Harry can eventually destroy Azkaban, Hermione certainly can.
“For defeating the Dark Lord, we award Hermione...wait, what was the difference in score again?...four hundred and twenty points.”
He has the Philosopher’s Stone. Not an issue.
...or character growth in the protagonist, theoretically.
Not really. Mind magic is one of Harry’s top priorities, Quirrell is the first person he’d ask about Obliviate, Quirrell has no reason not to tell him, and Obliviate wasn’t exactly the spell Harry used to defeat Quirrell in the first place. This outcome is about as likely in the world where Quirrell wasn’t expecting to lose as in the world where he was, so it doesn’t shift the priors substantially.
Voldemort still killed David Monroe, he just did it earlier than everyone thought he did. Chapter 108:
I had long ago taken my vengeance on David Monroe—he was an annoyance from my year in Slytherin—so I bethought to also steal his identity, and wipe out his family to make myself heir of his House.
Your other questions remain, though. Harry no longer killed Voldemort for good, and Hermione (apparently) has. This should be interesting. I predict this becomes an issue, confidence 70%; and, conditional on that, that Draco sides with Hermione again at a crucial moment, confidence 85%.
It is not humility to note that extrapolating models unimaginably far beyond their normal operating ranges is a fraught business. Just because we can apply a certain utility approximation to our monkeysphere, or even a few orders of magnitude above our monkeysphere, doesn’t mean the limiting behavior matches our approximation.