Ironic that the canon Wikia says that it’s not even known whether Jugson was free or an Azkaban escapee! Eliezer has certainly made him a much more significant character.
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I’m sure that he would have like to do this, but he wasn’t emotionally capable of carrying on the Malfoy tradition properly; he was just musing about that.
Yes, Harry killed a half hour’s worth of Draco without really giving it a second thought. Not much in the grand scheme of things, but I expected Harry to notice that this is a little bit of evil. (Just because Wizards do it all the time doesn’t make it not evil, as Harry well knows.) But maybe we’ll get Harry’s perspective later.
The more natural 365.24 is even worse.
We really want something like 370. That takes us back to the late Cretaceous, and I don’t think that EY wants to push things that far back.
No love for Emma Watson?
Eliezer is going for broke on the requests here. Well, this is the chapter do it! I find myself wishing that I knew somebody famous, just so I could be responding to his pleas. Let’s save the world, people!
If anyone can put me in touch with J. K. Rowlng
Spell her name right, and she’ll be more receptive? (I’m sure that this will be fixed soon.)
Wikipedia disagrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#Before_mechanical_clocks
There are a lot of older units of time listed there, but none of them seem to fit.
This chapter did blow my mind, and it does greatly improve the overall story. But yeah, it needs the professional following; the awarders don’t care what blew my mind.
Wizards would do that.
In fact, Hermione did this herself to her parents in canon, although she preserved their memories first.
Brains are flexible, so why can’t psychopaths learn empathy using different circuitry? If sufficiently motivated, that is.
People have speculated that making the transfiguration permanent would risk activating the Horcrux network.
That Gryffindor kid isn’t distraught over his father’s death; that’s the difference.
Justice is whatever is right, not a separate terminal value. (At least, that’s one way to use the word.)
And Moody can be counted on not to go blabbing to the others, undermining Hermione’s status as the new hero, or so on.
Does EY realize that Alecto and Amycus are siblings? He said that these children lost both parents.
And if Alecto has a child, then either the child is illegitimate, or Alecto kept her last name after marriage, something that no woman does in canon, and that no Witch does in MOR (only the Muggle Evans-Verres couple hyphenates). I don’t take Alecto Carrow for a tradition-defying feminist.
So I conclude that this a slip-up.
From LV’s perpsective, that would still be an improvement. It seriously curtails Harry’s thinking time.
Well, ‘hate’ is a strong word, but I certainly wasn’t going to be bullied into leaving a review.
I don’t think that you and kilobug are actually in contradiction. Kilobug is saying that the deaths of the Death Eaters is a negative term in the utility function. You are saying that the total utility of the act that kills them is positive (or greater than the alternatives). Unfortunately, idiomatic English discusses these two very different points in similar language.
In other words: kilobug says that, as you survey the consequences of Harry’s act of transfiguration, when you get to these deaths, you do not rejoice; buybuydandavis says that, considering all of the consequences of Harry’s act of transfiguration, you rejoice. At least, that’s how I understand you two.
Narcissa’s house isn’t 100% in the pure-blood faction, but that’s a minor detail.