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The first time this sentence appears in HPMoR is in the italic text that begins Chapter 2:
I'll assume the difference between "it's" and "it was" isn't significant. I'm inclined to refocus my attention now on the italic text that begins Chapter 1:
I didn't know what to make of this when I first read it, and I still don't. Does this describe an event that has already happened? It's not Hermione's death, since that didn't happen in the moonlight.
Note that of the italicized parts that appear at the start sporadically throughout the first ~20 chapters, this is now the only one that has not yet appeared later in the story (I went through and checked).
I thought they would be in reverse chronological order or something cool like that, but no dice.
When you checked, did you record the chapter with the epigraph and the chapter where the line appeared in the text?
And if you did, would you share it?
here. Format is ugly, but simple.
Number of chapter with epigraph - "epigraph" number of chapter with line in text - "original quote"
All are copy pastes.
1 - "Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line... (black robes, falling) ...blood spills out in litres, and someone screams a word." Not yet appeard
2 - ""Of course it was my fault. There's no one else here who could be responsible for anything."" - 90 -""Of course it's my fault. There's no one else here who could be responsible for anything.""
3 - ""But then the question is - who?"" 3 - ""Am I - could I be - maybe - you never know - if I'm not - but then the question is - who? ""
4 - ""World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."" 6 - "World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."
5 - ""It would've required a supernatural intervention for him to have your morality given his environment."" 87 - "It would've required a supernatural intervention for him to have your morality given his environment -""
6 - "You think your day was surreal? Try mine." 6 - "You think your day was surreal? Try mine."
7 - ""Your dad is almost as awesome as my dad."" 7 - ""Your dad is almost as awesome as my dad.""
8 - ""Allow me to warn you that challenging my ingenuity is a dangerous sort of project, and may tend to make your life a lot more surreal."" 8 - ""I warn you that challenging my ingenuity is a dangerous project, and tends to make your life a lot more surreal.""
9 - "You never did know what tiny event might upset the course of your master plan." 9 - "you never did know what tiny event might upset the course of your master plan."(also present in Ch 11, second Omake)
10 - none 11 - none
12 - ""Wonder what's wrong with him."" 12 - ""Wonder what's wrong with him,""
13 - ""That's one of the most obvious riddles I've ever heard."" 13 - ""That's one of the most obvious riddles I've ever heard.""
14 - "There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms." 14 - "There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms"
15 - ""I'm sure I'll find the time somewhere."" 15 - ""2:47PM on Saturday it is, then. I'm sure I'll find the time somewhere."
16 - "I'm not a psychopath, I'm just very creative." 16 - "The best Harry had come up with was "I'm not a psychopath, I'm just very creative" and that sounded kind of ominous"
17 - ""You start to see the pattern, hear the rhythm of the world."" 17 - ""You see, Harry, after you've been through a few adventures you tend to catch the hang of these things. You start to see the pattern, hear the rhythm of the world."
18 - ""That does sound like the sort of thing I would do, doesn't it?"" 18 - ""That does sound like the sort of thing I would do, doesn't it?" said Dumbledore, smiling."
Thanks!
So 1, 2, and 5 are the only chapters where the phrase doesn't appear in the chapter itself. Do those numbers mean anything recognizable?
EDIT: Yeah. 4. 1, 2, 4, and 5. Upvoting for correcting me.
And 4.
I did not for all of them, but I can easily reproduce it. One moment...