The only reason I see blue when I look up during the daytime at something higher than a ceiling, an airplane, or a cloud, is because the atmosphere is composed of reflective blue material (air) intervening between me and the darkness of space. I would still like an explanation from the great-great-grandparent as to what constitutes 'turning the sky green'.
Nevermind - I thought I'd found a site that would flip a coin and save the result with a timestamp.
Why hasn't anybody made this yet?
Precommitment is a solved problem which doesn't need a trusted website. For example, simplicio could've released a hash precommitment (made using a local hash utility like sha512sum) to Yvain after taking the survey and just now unveiled that input, if he was serious about the counterfactual.
(He would also want to replace the 'flip a coin' with eg. 'total number of survey participants was odd'.)
You can even still easily do a verifiable coin flip now. For example, you could pick a commonly observable future event like a property of a Bitcoin block 24 hours ...
Yes, it's a timed essay.
Survey taken! Can't wait to see the results.
I used top-to-bottom, but dires first on each level, and that seemed to work consistently pretty well.
Or he's telling us that Quirrell is playing the role of someone who is on the verge of dying.
I didn't intend to devolve into platitudes; sorry if that happened anyway. I was just trying to relate your comment to the general topic.
What this means is that we should teach the kids what they can and can't change about those things, and how to change them (via hard work), instead of continuing to teach them that appearance and intelligence are completely fixed, and then rewarding them for those traits anyway.
Data point: your final paragraph is an accurate description of my expercience as well.
World dom... er, optimization doesn't include politics?
Do you have an example of this happening?
Not the same; agreed. However, there was no ritual done to Harry!Horcrux in JKR-canon either.
Last paragraph of this Pottermore screenshot describes him as an 'effective horcrux' I presume because he's possessed by the remaining part of Voldemort's soul.
Thief's Downfall probably does this.
'ought to' is often not the some as 'do' especially when the subject is Wizarding Britain.
For that, I'd point to undermind's comment that this is only what Harry wants the Malfoys to know.
There might also be an element of Harry's art as a rationalist being forgotten when he needs it most.
What if the Galleons are actually fake gold created by Goblins, and they can tell 'fake' currency because it's real?
That way, only the Goblins can test for 'real' vs. 'fake' currency because the wizards all have it backwards.
This only narrows Harry's list to 'The Defense Professor and people who could rig the wards to say the Defense Professor killed her.' Dumbles is easily on that list.
(...but we know he is.)
Maybe on ff.net as a one-shot spinoff?
True, Hermione doesn't have a link to Voldemort.
I am aware of how horcruxes work and V had eight in canon (although only one was another human - the only example of such a horcrux that we have. There is no mention anywhere whether it's impossible to horcrux two humans). I tried to leave the possibility open that V and Harry's connection is something other than a horcrux, although my wording wasn't as clear as it could have been.
I like the Bellatrix possession idea a bit better than my own, but I don't think we've hit on Lucius' reason yet.
Perhaps that Hermione is also Voldemort in the same way HJPEV is Voldemort (since, Horcrux or not, that seems the likely explanation for Harry's power and bloodthirst)?
I think Dumbles is trying to tell McGonagall that he took the Potters there while letting her keep plausible deniability.
I think probably the latter. His conclusion is "So you really do care" not "So other people aren't rational enough to try to ressurect their loved ones."
My model of Eliezer wouldn't troll us that blatantly.
Then again, this is the guy who wrote Quirinius One-Level-Higher-Than-You Quirrell.
How much did you sleep on a monophasic schedule?
If only Godric's twin hadn't been killed at birth...
My first thought was that Dumbledore was referring to Salazar Slytherin. However, there can certainly be additional interpretations.
Because Quirrell's going to claim he's been framed.
What if Harry transfigured the bedsheet to look like Hermione, and the transfiguration wore off some time later?
According to this interview, Hermione no longer has a sister in canon either.
The relevant Q and A:
...Does Hermione have any brothers or sisters?
No, she doesn’t. When I first made up Hermione I gave her a younger sister, but she was very hard to work in. The younger sister was not supposed to go to Hogwarts. She was supposed to remain a Muggle. It was a sideline that didn’t work very well and it did not have a big place in the story. I have deliberately kept Hermione’s family in the background. You see so much of Ron’s family so I thought that I would keep
The latter explanation was my assumption. I am curious whether this capacity loss transfers across bodies when one is possessing someone else or has been resurrected.
The trace is only placed on muggleborns. The Ministry expects magical parents to supervise the magic use of their own children.
Probably, because the Ministry is in charge of cleaning up after abovementioned slips in the Statute of Secrecy.
Does Dumbledore observe Quirrell's interaction with either Harry or McGonagall?
I agree, but he also doesn't want the universe destroyed in the process.
Would Harry have access to the sword, being a Ravenclaw?
In canon, Hermione casts Obliviate in her 7th year (presumably without consulting a restricted text from the Department of Mysteries), so the widely available book may actually have enough information for an intelligent reader to learn how to cast it.
I think the percentages of 'successful' LW readers need to be recalculated. What percentage of LW readers were in the SSC survey, but started reading LW after the most profitable window for buying bitcoin had already passed? What percentage were students with no spare funds in 2011, or otherwise had too little risk tolerance to invest?
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