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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 October 2012 10:56:31PM 7 points [-]

Fair and added. Also there's a lovely new bit of Munchkin fiction called Harry Potter and the Natural 20 (the author has confirmed this was explicitly HPMOR-inspired) but I don't know if it's 'explicit rationalist fiction' yet, although it's possibly already a good fic to teach Munchkinism in particular.

Comment author: Vaniver 03 October 2012 11:47:47PM 6 points [-]

Harry Potter and the Natural 20

I thought it was starting poorly, but then I got to:

"Someone send for Dumbledore, this kid needs help."

"I'm right here in front of you."

"No, not you, the other Dumbledore."

"Oh," said Aberforth, slightly disappointed. "Nobody ever wants to send for me."

Comment author: chaosmosis 04 October 2012 03:55:18AM 0 points [-]

This means I'll try it, thanks for that quote.

Comment author: gwern 04 October 2012 02:54:12AM 0 points [-]

I thought there were a lot of quotable bits; fun fic.

Comment author: chaosmosis 04 October 2012 04:07:29AM 3 points [-]

Oh yes.

"Er, before we, uh, um, start choosing one," Milo stammered awkwardly. "There's something I've been, ah, meaning to ask of you, Mr. Ollivander."

"Yes?" he said softly. Gods, but this guy is weird.

"Your store name – I mean, Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands Since 382 BCE – well, it's just that, er…"

"Yes?"

"Shouldn't – shouldn't Ollivanders have an apostrophe in it?" Milo said, and instantly regretted it.

Mr. Ollivander chuckled, slowly and irregularly. It was a disconcertingly unnatural sound.

"Not if it's plural," Ollivander said.

Milo swallowed nervously.

Comment author: gwern 04 October 2012 04:28:15AM 1 point [-]

That was good, but the blood was better.

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