quirrellinvenice comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 7 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: quirrellinvenice 22 March 2011 12:17:51AM 4 points [-]

I have begun blogging an extended discussion of HP:MOR at quirrellinvenice.tumblr.com. Read it!

Comment author: gjm 28 March 2011 12:45:39AM 2 points [-]

Those seem to have been a very long "few hours"...

Comment author: HonoreDB 22 March 2011 02:50:06AM 2 points [-]

This looks interesting! I'll be following it.

It seems like a very ambitious project. In particular, approaching a piece of serial fiction as a classically structured work is possibly doable, but seems scary. The shape of the story can vary in the author's mind from chapter to chapter, so you'll be picking up contradictory clues, and end up seeing the story as a whole as a superposition of different patterns (or multiple time-displaced instances of a single one; I agree that Harry seems to be starting a second hero's journey before finishing his first.)