bungee cords
Also, I don't think fire is prohibited, so did Harry warn everyone that they shouldn't try eliminating his bungee cords by burning them?
Harry is a total wuss.
Unsurprising, and I don't see it as a problem.
letting Draco pick him off... I can only hope that Harry was deliberately losing as part of some arbitrary social agenda
Come on - Harry clearly manipulated that situation and needed to lose to make it work. Forcing Draco and Hermione to work together would not have worked nearly as well if they hadn't actually beaten them. Now Hermione doesn't think Draco is evil and irredeemable (especially since he tried to save her), and Draco was actually protecting a mudblood and then shut up and multiplied in order to win.
What on earth is he doing going about with grotesque supplication and begging for forgiveness?
Wouldn't you like to know? I can think of three main categories of reasons:
Harry is a total wuss.
Unsurprising, and I don't see it as a problem.
There is a genuinely interesting question here. I know I personally are far less likely to take the advice of or learn lessons from wusses. I am reasonably confident I am not generalising from one example here but for your part does Harry's wussiness have any bearing on how much you expect your own behaviour to be influenced by Harry's example in the MoR parables?
Come on - Harry clearly manipulated that situation and needed to lose to make it work.
This is to what I referred w...
ETA: There is now a third thread, so send new comments there.
Since the first thread has exceeded 500 comments, it seems time for a new one, with Eliezer's just-posted Chapter 33 & 34 to kick things off.
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