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Does Harry know how to use the killing curse? I assumed he didn't. Why else wouldn't he have used it first?
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He saw Voldemort cast it on his mother after he recovered the memory via dementor exposure. EDIT: whoops someone already pointed that out
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OK. was the whole thing with the soup? I think it can only be one of two things:
1) A shout-out/reference to another piece of fiction. HPMOR does this a lot, and I would not be surprised if this was yet another one of those. I do not recognise what piece of fiction it is referencing though. Can I get confirmation from anyone on if they recognise it from anywhere?
2) Otherwise, it must be important to the story. Remember, HPMOR is a rationalist story. There there are not meant to be red herrings. You are supposed to be able to figure it out. So, if this is the case, how has this got to do with the events of the story. Perhaps some weird time travel thing? I do not know. I notice I am confused.
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It could just have been an excuse to list the professors present and note Dumbledore's absence.
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Does Imperius provide remote control, or simply obedience to mundane orders? What does self-inflicted Imperius do?
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What does self-inflicted Imperius do
The cure to procrastination?
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What will it take to give Harry a breakdown, to have him say, or think, "this is too much"?
At the start of this story he's human, vulnerable to stress; merely facing up to Minerva McGonagall is enough to make him have to excuse himself and go retch. When I consider everything that's happened to that boy since then, it's a wonder he's not in need of therapy. But now his strength and sanity seem inhumanly unerodable; even Hermione's death immediately leads to an "unyielding resolution" that he's going to get her back.
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merely facing up to Minerva McGonagall is enough to make him have to excuse himself and go retch
This line has actually been changed to:
he grabbed the magical self-cleaning towel and, with shaky hands, wiped moisture off his forehead. Harry's entire body was sheathed in sweat which had soaked clear through his Muggle clothing, though at least it didn't show through the robes.
(at the end of ch6)
It doesn't take away from your point, just remarking that there are some details in the early chapters that have been changed.
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I'll agree that his rush to the combat is almost certainly an attempt to keep Harry alive. Unnecessarily, but he had no way of knowing that. But the troll attack seems to almost certainly be the doing of the person who used Hermione to attack Draco, and it's hard to believe that was anyone other than Quirrell.
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I'll agree that his rush to the combat is almost certainly an attempt to keep Harry alive.
When going out of your way to turn a troll into an assassination tool, wouldn't you also instal some explicit instructions NOT to harm Harry Potter or anyone else vital to your future plans? At the very least the troll was ordered (imperio-ed?) to ignore any other victims and go straight for Hermione since it let Filch go. The fact that after killing his target the troll attacked anyone nearby makes me suspect Lucius, who has no reason to keep any Hogwarts student alive since his son is no longer there.
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Care to elaborate? Quirrel's involvement in this attack does not seem quite that intuitively obvious to me.
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Quirel has often stated his dislike of Harry holding back because of silly things like "morality" and "what others might think of him". As Draco said in an early chapter: when confronted with a complicated plot look at what ends up happening and assume it was the intended outcome. Harry went fully into his dark side, switched off his censors and killed the troll in about 5 seconds. Even if Harry stayed behind in the Great Hall and learned about Hermione's death later it would still make him go to his dark side like never before. This benefits whatever Quirel's plan is.
Secondly, Eliezer likes to foreshadow things in hpmor. How many times have we heard characters say something like: "always suspect the defense professor"? This alone hints at Quirel being the mastermind behind Big Evil Events.
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I was wondering whether a lot of exposure to superhero comics could have that effect, since very little (nothing at all?) is permanent in them.
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I also lacked any strong emotional reaction to Hermione's death and I have never read a superhero comic in my life. I fact, I've never had such a reaction to a fictional character's death in books, movies or games. While I do get immense enjoyment out of absorbing works of fiction, I never get 'caught up' in them to such a degree that the emotional part of my brain starts treating characters as real people.
June or July?
That would be June as July 30th is a Tuesday
Meetup : Brussels meetup with HEALES
Discussion article for the meetup : Brussels meetup with HEALES
This month I'm happy to announce we have a very special meetup! The kind people from Heales (The Healthy Life Extension Society) are giving a presentation and explaining what they are all about. If you have any interest in life extension or just want an intelligent discussion consider dropping by. For this meetup the room upstairs is booked for us so ask at the bar or just come upstairs and say hi. If you are coming for the first time, please consider filling out this one minute form, to share your contact information.
About this meetup in particular: The first part of the discussion will give a short description of why we age and the main fields of possible progression:
Drugs
Stem cells and creation of organs
Gene therapy
Nanotechnologies
Longer term prospective
The second part of the discussion will be about the consequences of life extension for the citizens and for the society as a whole:
The following aspects concerning life extension will be approached:
- Economic consequences: lower health costs and questions related to pensions
- Environmental consequences: the question of overpopulation and the pattern of consumption of people advancing in age
Psychological fears related to a longer life: boredom, hubris (playing God).
Harmonious society: ethical questions, lower level of crime and a higher level of resilience
The last part of the discussion will be about a political and ethical question: Should the State subsidize life extension?
Didier Coeurnelle is co-chair of Heales (Healthy Life Extension Society), which publishes a monthly newsletter of information: “La mort de la mort” (The Death of the Death) and organizes international conferences. He is vice-president of the French association Technoprog, which aims to “spread the themes and questions related to technologies that could extend and enhance the lives of individuals and of humankind”. He is also an active member of the environmental movement.
In January 2013, he published a book (in French): Et si on arrêtait de vieillir ! : Réalité, enjeux et perspectives d'une vie en bonne santé beaucoup plus longue (Amazon page - Dedicated website).
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I would imagine that "dying-soul-magic", or whatever that was, is impossible to fake (or, at least, really dang hard to) like prophecy magic.
Harry is the only one to witness the 'dying-soul-magic' and he has no idea what it is supposed to look like. Adding any sort of magical disturbance to the dying magicked!rat would have the same result from Harry's point of view.