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Comment author: pedanterrific 18 September 2011 11:15:59PM 17 points [-]

I seem to recall there was some playing around with Suzumiya-style Anachronic Order in earlier MoR chapters, but it was pretty self-contained and easy to follow. Plus there's some just downright confusing parts- chapter opening quotes that are never referenced again, Aftermaths that don't seem to have anything to do with the previous chapter, stuff like that.

And there's definitely some real potential for an omake chapter of Bad Ends: Harry accidentally destroying Dumbledore's ability to cast the Patronus Charm, Harry insulting his mother to Snape just a little more, Harry saying the wrong thing to Lucius in King's Cross, Harry realizing aloud to Quirrel what the ritual to summon Death really was...

Harry successfully transfiguring nanotech.

Comment author: thomblake 28 December 2011 04:59:27PM 27 points [-]

I had actually been tossing around the idea of a fic where each chapter is a bad end for MoR, possibly one for each chapter. Working title: 'Everyone dies'.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 January 2012 12:22:18AM 9 points [-]

One for each chapter? I'd read that.

Comment author: Alicorn 28 December 2011 05:13:18PM 4 points [-]

Not "Rocks fall, everyone dies"?

Comment author: thomblake 28 December 2011 05:23:23PM 5 points [-]

I was thinking the first chapter should feature rocks falling.

Comment author: Asymmetric 25 September 2011 06:37:06PM 0 points [-]

How would successfully transfiguring nanotech be bad, exactly?

Comment author: pedanterrific 25 September 2011 07:01:19PM *  5 points [-]

The bit I'm referencing is from Chapter 28:

Earlier, Harry had very secretly - he hadn't even told Hermione - tried to Transfigure nanotechnology a la Eric Drexler. (He'd tried to produce a desktop nanofactory, of course, not tiny self-replicating assemblers, Harry wasn't insane.) It would have been godhood in a single shot if it'd worked.

Now, try to imagine Chapter28!Harry - after learning to lose, but before going to Azkaban and reconciling with his dark side - attaining "godhood in a single shot". How well do you imagine that might have worked out?

(This is leaving aside the myriad ways this scheme could have gone horribly wrong, of course. The point is, even if everything went according to plan it most probably would have been a Bad End.)

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