When Harry used spidersilk as a targeting phase of his monomolecular engine of death, some people were reminded of Worm. When reading this chapter I couldn't help but think of another parallel in that Hermione is going to be the one-person special ops division of a world-saving conspiracy.
Yes, I learned that from no-equipment divers. With this simple trick people can look around down there with just a mask and fin. They claim with practice the mental effect disappears.
Saying grace before a meal can help you maintain tranquility (thereby making it more likely you will experience positive emotions) via framing effects
Or it can suggest to you that you are a worthless sinner destined for the lake of fire :-/
This is basically a claim that reminding people of religion is good for them. I am... doubtful.
It's worth noting that the quoted fragment occurs in a book on Stoicism, which doesn't have a concept of personal god throwing you into hell, and it's a part of the explanation of a Stoic technique. In fact, I think the OP cut away a little too much context from the quote:
The Stoics are not alone in harnessing the power of negative visualization. Consider, for example, those individuals who say grace before a meal. Some presumably say it because they are simply in the habit of doing so. Others might say it because they fear that God will punish them if they don’t. But understood properly, saying grace—and for that matter, offering any prayer of thanks—is a form of negative visualization. Before eating a meal, those saying grace pause for a moment to reflect on the fact that this food might not have been available to them, in which case they would have gone hungry. [...]
Hopefully the apparent time limit on the Philosopher's Stone isn't going to get worse over time.
Good point. A time limit of 3:54 does seem too arbitrary to be hard-coded.
Harry also hasn't considered that it may only be good for some finite number of permanent transfigurations. He's going to try to use it many more times than it probably has been used in a very long time.
At least he only intends to use the Stone as a stop-gap measure for fighting death until he is able to properly end the world.
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Well, in seconds it's 234, which looks slightly less arbitrary.
Waait. Did whoever made it even use our time units?
Dragon General gets No Parents.
Not even something original. General Chaos already got that Achievement before him.
Nope. He has four parents only two of whom happen to be dead.
Er, Taylor Hebert from Worm did that? Could you remind me of when that was?
Edit: I mean talked about drugs in a school.
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Chapter 90:
even a simple Obliviation will stretch the edge of your current stamina. It is a dangerous art, illegal to use without Ministry authorization, and I would caution you not to use it under circumstances where it would be inconvenient to accidentally erase ten years of someone's life. I wish I could promise you that I would obtain one of those highly guarded tomes from the Department of Mysteries, and pass it to you beneath a disguised cover. But what I must actually tell you is that you will find the standard introductory text in the north-northwest stacks of the main Hogwarts library, filed under M.
So there is no defense against Obliviation that Voldemort could have prepared for himself?
I confess I expected paranoid-Moody thinking from Harry, not Far-mode Good thinking. The stakes are so high that anything other than ruthless pragmatism feels insane to me.
One defense against obliviation would be to keep creating old-school horcruxes at regular intervals. As I understand they contain snapshots of current mind-state so should be unaffected by the main copy getting obliviated later. He might not be quite gone yet.
Is there any legitimate reason why a gun wouldn't work? I mean, I now strongly suspect it wasn't loaded, but in theory it should do.
I admit the uncertainty as to how the horcrux system works could mean that killing Tom R. Jr is a bad idea.
This chapter made me suspect that Harry would be brought back by Voldie's horcrux network.
... Huh.
... Is it just me, or is Harry Potter now in the same room as the Elder Wand and the Philosopher's Stone?
... Well, there's a great big Dark Lord in the way, but.
My reading was that he threw the objects aside, not through the mirror, so they got sealed together with Dumbledore's pocket mirrorverse (a mirrorverse... he must have been hiding a goatee under that fake beard!)
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Checking "Enable Anti-Kibitzer" in Preferences already does that.
The option has an annotation that it only works in Firefox. I just checked and it works for me in Chrome.