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The Black House isn't 100% in the pure-blood faction?
What HPMOR fact am I forgetting?
"This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight."
So, this is the single change that makes this story an AU?
From chapter 1:
This is not a strict single-point-of-departure fic - There exists a primary point of departure, at some point in the past, but also other alterations. The best term I've heard for this fic is "parallel universe."
Above is the Doyalist reason, and almost certainly the root reason.
The Watsonian reason was that it would force Voldemort to waste an hour in the preparation, making any attempt to steal the Stone take an hour longer. As traps go, it's reasonably clever.
The potion did serve its in-story purpose of banishing the flames blocking the doorway, after all, so it's not like Voldemort spent that time on the potion and then used his wand to take care of the flames.
The doom-sense could have a lot to do with both the strength of the magic and the degree to which it inherently clashes with the senser's inclinations or goals.
To me, it seemed that it scaled with their current mindsets and actions, with stronger being the more they contrasted.
Consider how strongly it was felt when Harry's "anti-death-ness" was particularly strong (e.g. after Harry killed his first Dementor) or when Voldemort's desecration of death was higher than normal (e.g. when he makes Inferi).
Inversely, look at weak the feeling is when ...
I can see him believing that it would be very difficult to get them to agree regardless.
Though, given the Drought of Living Death...
Naw, they still wouldn't want to leave him in Harry's care. Plus, then they might get all of his magical secrets (including Harry's (soul/mind's) magical heritage, rather than leaving them for Harry to use. Or they might Obliviate everything, depending on whether their paranoia wins over their greed.
But then there wouldn't be continued speculation that this is still the bad end.
Yes in HPMOR
Chapter 79:
“Born the 26th of September, 1955, to Quondia Quirrell, of an acknowledged tryst with Lirinus Lumblung...” intoned the Auror. “Sorted into Ravenclaw..."
The disparity is one of the reasons that the Aurors are sure he's not actually Quirinus Quirrell.
Would you risk going back to a live LV just to check it out? Take the risk that Harry didn't notice some annoying bystander get dispatched, or just didn't mention it? A lot of those revelations only came out when the subject came up, after all. Using a Pensieve would be much safer.
You assume Snape isn't one of the headless minions on the ground...
Considering the only DE to raise shields also tried to kill LV and attempted to enlist the rest of them to join him...
The persona of LV might well have considered it a betrayal, to have their shields up around their lord. For why would you need them, if you were not plotting treachery?
… this is highly unusual for an obliviation, so I think it is very likely that V has not left his body.
It appeared to be clear to me that this was some sort of sign that the Prophesy had been completed.
It seemed strange, but that was my reading of the text.
Well, that's certainly one way to explain away all of the strange aspects. Establish them as fact, through the mysterious bond between LV and HP, and do so in front of a huge crowd so that the word can spread and mutate on its own. By the time anyone comes to investigate or question, they will already be influenced by the show or rumors they've heard, promoting that hypothesis to their attention rather than coming to it naturally.
It's pointing the police at Mortimer Snodgrass, from chapter 17, as it were.
Edit: I mean talked about drugs in a school.
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She told them that taking drugs was fun, and felt great...until it wasn't, and ruined everything good about your life. It's in chapter 23.04
ETA: Dang, didn't notice someone below me already posted much the same. Oh well.
Which is amusing, and also means that it's the last thing he should tell LV.
It is clearly a spell that is practically guaranteed to work against LV, since it could appear to miss only to swing back and hit either him or his shields.
I would not be surprised in the slightest if it was essential to passing the test, given how perfectly it would work in this situation of magical resonance.
Do note that Voldemort cannot actually use Legilimency on Harry, due to magical resonance.
Not only would this be expected due to how the effect has manifested in the past, but EY has also confirmed that this was the original reason for the resonance in the first place.
It could be possible for a Death Eater to do so in his stead, but I do not think it at all likely without further orders from Voldemort, given his explicit desire for privacy in their conversation.
Regarding Dumbledore's decision, it could simply be that (due to the prophesy) he believed Ha...
I'm not too sure about your #4, but #2 definitely cannot be counted upon to be true.
In Chapter 92, in a conversation between McG and LV:
“Are you mad? You think that Mr. Potter could—this is ridiculous. Mr. Potter cannot possibly—” A wordless image crossed her mind of a patch of glass on a steel ball. “—Mr. Potter would not do such a thing!”
It has been pointed out that if LV discarded treating this as a game, which does appear to be the case, then he may well have been using Legilimency on McG, in which case he would know of it, at least.
Which isn't to...
It clearly stipulates 12:01 am to avoid just this kind of confusion.
Further, the chapter will be posted at 10:00 am on Tuesday.
So the deadline is Monday night.
I was wondering how much retroactive power we would have.
Harry would know, or be able to look up, any number of chemicals that would react very poorly to the open air. It would be exceedingly foolish to carry one on his person, transfigured, such that he would simply have to negate the tranfiguration to have a distraction or attack, but would such a thing be in our power to suggest into existence, if we thought of a sufficiently non-foolish way for Harry to carry this?
Ah. Even ignoring that the context is from when they are children, I don't consider the black sheep disowned from the family as having a bearing on where the House stands, but alright. Semantics, I suppose.