Comment author: redding 10 May 2015 08:28:35PM 1 point [-]

I'm tentatively interested. I live about an hour east of Madison, but as a college student this is really only relevant during the summer. I'll take a look at potential (cheap) transportation.

Comment author: wobster109 12 May 2015 05:31:54AM 1 point [-]

Thanks for posting! I'm working on getting a Facebook group up, and all events will be posted there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/783506698431372/

Check there for events and see if any of it works for you. If you don't mind my asking, where do you live? I'm very fond of driving and could possibly transport you for a weekend visit.

Comment author: Ishaan 10 May 2015 08:53:48PM 1 point [-]

I don't live there anymore, sadly, but I'm glad you're reviving it because it was really fun! (I assume you still have the old mailing list in case any of the old crowd is still in town?)

Comment author: wobster109 12 May 2015 05:29:58AM 1 point [-]

Yep, I have the old mailing list! I'll definitely include the whole mailing list once I get a Facebook group and some plans set up. ^^

Comment author: Gondolinian 12 March 2015 08:17:50PM *  10 points [-]

It looks like chapter 47 is where Draco tells Harry about Narcissa's death, and I'm not seeing anything about Lucius' being an eyewitness. The chapter seems to imply that Lucius was told, just like everyone else:

"Draco," Harry said, he let all of the hoarseness into his own voice, it would be wrong to sound calm, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry for asking, but I have to know, how do you know it was Dumble-"

"Dumbledore said he did it, he told Father it was a warning! And Father couldn't testify under Veritaserum because he was an Occlumens, he couldn't even get Dumbledore put on trial, Father's own allies didn't believe him after Dumbledore just denied everything in public, but we know, the Death Eaters know, Father wouldn't have any reason to lie about that, Father would want us to take revenge on the right person, can't you see that Harry?" Draco's voice was wild.

Comment author: wobster109 17 March 2015 09:32:18PM 0 points [-]

My understanding was Lucius came home and "found" Narcissa burned in the remnants of the house, or at least remembered doing so. It just doesn't make sense that a clever, cunning man (who brought Draco to see Death Note and criticized the plot) would find no trace of his wife and, knowing Dumbledore to be famously soft-hearted, would just unquestioningly believe that story.

Comment author: wobster109 12 March 2015 07:36:23PM -1 points [-]

Oh. Dumbledore must have memory-charmed Lucius.

Comment author: kilobug 10 March 2015 10:59:53PM 0 points [-]

If I remember well, it's not just "person", but information. I can't use a Time Turner to go 6 hours back to the past, give a piece of paper to someone (or an information to that person), and have that person goes back for 6 more hours.

So while it is an interesting hypothesis, it would require no information to be carried... and isn't the fact that the Stone still exists and works an information in itself ? Or that's nitpicking ?

Comment author: wobster109 11 March 2015 04:56:10PM 3 points [-]

My feeling is things that are overwhelmingly likely do not get treated as information. For example, Harry's clothes go with him, but "Time" doesn't consider that to be information of his clothes still existing. It feels like that there's a Deus ex Machina aspect to how "Time" works and deals with information. Sometimes when you try to time-turn you just encounter Paradox.

So based on that I'd predict that if you try to time-turn with intention to get more uses out of the stone, you will encounter Paradox.

Comment author: kilobug 10 March 2015 07:46:35PM 12 points [-]

Hum, did Harry suddenly forget about Time-Turners ? Or is he afraid what will happen if people "abuses" from them with the Stone ?

The Stone takes 234 seconds. That's 86400/234 = 369 people/day if you have "normal" 24 hours a day. But if you have 30 hours a day, as you do with a Time-Turner, it's actually 461 people you can heal each day.

Comment author: wobster109 10 March 2015 09:00:58PM 4 points [-]

There's a limit on a person going back, but I don't know about things. So maybe a bunch of people with time-turners could hand off the stone.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 10 March 2015 07:51:29PM *  6 points [-]

Hm, any particular reason, if Harry is already discussing other vulnerable info like having a transfigured Voldemort, he won't fess up to the part where Quirrel was Voldemort and that he won single-handedly?

I gotta say, I've been wanting to know what intelligent people like Moody and Amelia made of Harry's derp story, and hoping that it wouldn't turn out that "Eliezer wants us to believe that everyone in Magical Britain really is that stupid" - and I got precisely what I wished for. Great!

Comment author: wobster109 10 March 2015 08:59:33PM 0 points [-]

My feeling is Harry doesn't want everyone knowing that he, 11-year-old warrior of light, killed 36 death eaters. People would always be wondering if you were evil after that.

Comment author: wobster109 10 March 2015 08:53:30PM 10 points [-]

Harry, hurry up and read the instructions Voldie left you. You know, find out what dark sacrifice is needed before you make plans to revive Hermione yet again. If it requires a human sacrifice you might consider pacing the dementors out.

Comment author: Lumifer 10 March 2015 08:36:46PM 1 point [-]

Better than "Undead" X-)

Comment author: wobster109 10 March 2015 08:49:35PM 2 points [-]

I like Undead. "Hermione the Undead" ^^

Comment author: Unknowns 05 March 2015 04:08:32AM *  2 points [-]

I was extremely disappointed by these chapters, enough so that I would prefer the shorter and sadder ending. Various things that seem to me wrong with it:

Harry's plan is the kind of complicated plan that would not really work, because of unknown constraints on magic, constraints on his concentration and imagination, either his magic or the strands themselves being noticed by Voldemort, or for some other reason.

Voldemort is left holding the Idiot Ball, which Eliezer promised would not happen, because he left Harry with his wand and glasses for no reason, as well as committing many other blunders that allowed all this.

Harry would not really think of such a plan, giving the way he was thinking in the earlier chapters (Eliezer essentially concedes this by saying that if the readers can think of it, "Harry is allowed to think of it" even though this is not realistic.)

It does not really fit with the rest of the story, even given the foreshadows such as Dumbledore saying that partial transfiguration might be the power the Dark Lord knows not and so on.

Harry has probably broken his Unbreakable Vow, since he does not know how prophecy works sufficiently to say for sure that preserving his life in this way is not putting the world in more risk. At least he would need to consult with Hermione before putting such a plan into action.

Total obliviation is a fate worse than death, and given that obliviation is a fairly well known and low-level spell, powerful wizards would surely have some kind of anti-obliviation wards that would prevent it from working on them.

The chapters do not make sufficient use of the Unbreakable Vow. Even without forcing positive actions, this particular Vow would almost certainly have much larger effects on Harry's actions (such as preventing the whole plan without consulting Hermione). Basically those who used the "HarryPrime" terminology are probably correct.

Now I want to see the bad ending, so that mentally I can make it the official one.

Comment author: wobster109 09 March 2015 09:19:18PM *  1 point [-]

I'm so cross with Voldemort! How could he have possibly left Harry with the wand? How could he? It's the exact sort of mistake he obviously wouldn't make, especially since he already demanded Harry's wand several times already. How could he have left Harry with an hour on the time-turner? The game was going to last all night, it would have been so easy just to use up all the hours. Why did he wait for last words? See points 14 and 16 on the supervillain list: NO last requests, NO last words. It's all so weird and uncharacteristically unlike him!

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