Comment on Lesson learned from HPMOR, only months after... (spoilers from beginning to end)

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:50:37 GMT

And conversely, things are allowed to just happen Because the Author Says So in fiction. When watching TV, I'll often ask "why didn't person X just do obvious thing Y which would have solved all of their problems for the rest of this episode?", to which my girlfriend's perfectly valid response is "plot reasons" (TV Tropes calls this the Anthropic Principle)

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