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Anyone else getting the feeling that EY is doing an accelerated wrap up of HPMOR?
We've jumped forward months in the story, and it looks like everyone is in play all at once, for the highest of stakes. The major players all have their beloved pieces at risk in Lucius and Draco, Harry and Hermione, and Albus and Harry.
Also, with the approaching end of the school year, I assume it's the end for Quirrell as well.
But Chapter 83 is The Aftermath. And I believe EY talked about future installments more as novellas, which makes me think those would be retrospective fill ins for the months we've skipped.
Say it aint so. I'm in no rush to see this end, and not to get melodramatic about it, but I think HPMOR has a good chance of being the most important thing anyone on this list ever does. Rand would have been an unknown crank without the novels. A transvaluation of values is made through stories, not Sequences.
I checked again, and chapter 73 says "The March days marched by". Chapter 78 starts at 4th of April, and the day of Hermione's arrest was the morning of Sunday the 5th of April.
So I think your impression is wrong: we're still moving at the pace of about one month per major arc. "Humanism" was January, and "Stanford Prison Experiment" was February, and "Self-actualization" was March. This is now April.
Thank you.
I guess I get another demerit for not paying attention in class.
There have been a couple Aftermath chapters already, that's what the author titles chapters within an arc that come after the climax of the arc and wrap things up usually on a character-by-character basis. Chapters 63 and 77 were both Aftermath, but they certainly didn't end the story.
Rational DanArmak knows about UFAI and how he can't weigh miniscule probabilities correctly and so on.
Emotional DanArmak is praying oh dear god when HPMOR ends please please let Eliezer go on writing fiction.
He's been writing fiction for a long time. I wouldn't worry.
I know that, but he's never written long-form fiction before, and may never do so again. It does take a lot of time.
Correct. Stories are how humans learn most things.
There were two rushed-feeling reveals in the same chapter. That may be why you feel like things are wrapping up.
Things EY said don't figure in to the early end theory, though. He's just talking about release-pacing and word count.