There is a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
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Some of these have been explained / fired already. I think most people agree that:
Sirius Black is not Hat and Cloak, because H&C was Quirrel; I think this is pretty definite.
Traps on the third floor are an obvious trap for a Dark Lord foolish enough to try stealing the Philosopher's Stone, which Quirrel is not, because he realizes it isn't there.
What Dumbledore wrote in Lily Potter's potions book was advice she used to help her sister. Which was a risky, stupid, Griffindor / Dumbledorian thing to do. The horrible secret is that not that Dumbledore
Many of these don't exactly count as Chekhov's guns, but they have this in common with your Chekhov's guns: They seem like substantial unresolved things and I will be disappointed if the end of HPMOR leaves a lot of them unresolved:
* Prophecies about Harry and the end of the world (for some values of "end" and "world").
* How magic works (e.g., why you have to say "Wingardium Leviosa" to make things float; resolving this may be more or less equivalent to resolving spell creation).
* Harry's intention of defeating death, perhaps in some fashion that involves the Deathly Hallows.
* The list of locations discussed by Harry and Quirrell, which may or may not correspond to Horcrux hiding places or something.
* Harry's "power that the Dark Lord knows not"; probably not either Science or partial transfiguration, but unlikely to be "love" as in Rowling.
* What's wrong (and how genuinely) with Quirrell.
* The interaction between Harry's and Quirrell's magic (kinda the same as in Rowling? maybe, or maybe not).
* Harry's vow to do away with Azkaban and the use of Dementors to guard human beings.
* Harry's debt to Lucius Malfoy. (Or -- I forget -- did that get cancelled somehow when Hermione got killed?)
* What, if anything, Harry was doing after Hermione's death; e.g., is he carrying her transfigured corpse around or something?
* Harry's "father's rock" (just transfiguration practice? actually some powerful magical artefact in disguise? etc.)
* What really happened in Godric's Hollow when Harry was a baby.
* Exactly what Quirrell's plans really are. (On some plausible theories, closely related to what happened in Godric's Hollow.)
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I'm not sure the missed glint in the Godric's Hollow graveyard was a Chekhov's gun. I took it as the final resting place of one or more of the Peverell brothers, which responded to Harry's declaration against death. In other words I think its relevance was fully explained in the context of that chapter, and wasn't left expecting any more from it.
New chapter!
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 102.
There is a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
Spoiler Warning: this thread is full of spoilers. With few exceptions, spoilers for MOR and canon are fair game to post, without warning or rot13. More specifically: