Chapter 42 is utterly pointless except as foreshadowing of his motivation for returning.
It took me a bit to come up with a hypothesis about what this means, but... are you referring to the fact that Chapter 42 mentions male homosexuality? I really can't see what else it might have to do with Grindelwald, but that's... that's something alright.
Yes, that would be awful. But I meant this:
..."Did Black have any unfinished business with Peter Pettigrew?" Harry said. "Anything that would make him seek out Mr. Pettigrew, even if it wasn't a killing matter? Like a secret Mr. Pettigrew knew, that Black wanted to know himself, or wanted to kill him to hide?" [...] "They were lovers, weren't they?"
There was an awkward pause.
Remus gave a slow, grave nod.
"Once," Remus said. "A long time ago. A sad affair, ending in vast tragedy, or so it seemed to us all when we w
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This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. With three chapters recently the previous thread has very quickly reached 1000 comments. The latest chapter as of 25th March 2012 is Ch 80.
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