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The Goddess of Cancer declared it was good and returned the the fire.

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5gwern
There's not much point in reporting a single typo on a mirror of a 7yo post, and in any case, it may have been deliberate - SSC has a running gag of writing 'the the' as a minor demonstration that you do not read words but expectations, in lines with Scott's longstanding interest in predictive processing.

The question I cannot answer:

Did the hat choose to play a prank? Did it maintain self-awareness long enough to do so? Or is this a decision that someone else made for the Boy-Who-Lived?

3Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)
My personal read at the time, and an interpretation which I personally feel is more in line with the worldbuilding, was that Dumbledore interceded and manipulated the hat and/or the situation, not wanting to allow Harry to go to Slytherin.  Some characters will eventually hazard guesses in this direction. However, we have word-of-god from Eliezer that the intended interpretation (as foreshadowed by the hat saying that self-awareness enhances its sense of humor) is that the hat chose to play a prank, and that the reason this was its first-ever prank is that these were circumstances that had literally never happened before.

Oh, I'm the Sorting Hat and I'm okay, I sleep all year and I work one day...

It took me far too long to realize what this was a reference to

This is the best damn chapter and I will never be able to read it without laughing.

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Vs Uneel unq orra cnlvat n ovg zber nggragvba, ur zvtug unir ernyvmrq gur cebcurpl rkvfgrq fbbare. ZpTbantnyy'f vaqvfpergvba urer vf n znwbe vaqvpngbe gung fbzrguvat vf hc

Why does this cause Harry's scar to hurt? I can't come up with a plausible reason why Voldemort using magic on Hermione would trigger the resonance.

(spoilers in rot13)

gur jnaq frrzrq ebohfg ntnvafg ybffrf bs fznyy nzbhagf bs jbbq

Jryy, gung'f n uvag V zvffrq gur svefg gvzr nebhaq. V jbaqre ubj zhpu bs uvf jnaq ur erzbirq va gur raq, naq vs vg unq nal abgvprnoyr vzcnpg ba uvf zntvp. 

1Roman Malov
sebz gur puncgre 114

The ending is a great reminder that these characters are still small children, and behave as small children ought to, though with reasonable exceptions

Got a little dizzy trying to keep up with Harry here I've read this fiveish times and it's still rather confusing

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I am of the opinion that Aftermath 1 is one of the best examples of  "author actually uses logic" that I have read in a long time, and the comedy involved in it only makes it better, especially as some of that comedy came from my own subconscious expectations from writers, namely chivalry. The girls gossiping and cracking jokes about "the heir of Slipperin" doesn't hurt either.

There were very few ways that could have gone even worse without magic or outside interference

the ender is strong with this one...

jasmine calling aladdin an idiot was in my opinion highlight of these "excerpts"

*that and the matrix one