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Here's an FF.net link if you don't want to put up with forums formatting.  https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10677106/1/Seventh-Horcrux
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divabot posted:If you're into HP fic and you want a Harrymort who sucks less, there's a nice crackfic called Seventh Horcrux (that's the index page) which is a moment's amusement. This is good and I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing this! quote:Back when I was a dark lord, I used to have a whole group of Death Eaters performing that task. I also had a group that dealt with public relations. My decision to put Bellatrix in the latter group probably explains why I was considered a dark lord and not a slightly over-zealous politician. gold goddamn stars
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Apr 7, 2016 20:58
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I enjoyed the twist towards the end. Harry mostly acted like and perceived himself as Voldemort because he'd Imperio'd himself to act like 'himself'.
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Apr 8, 2016 04:46
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/459310/ f-f-f-f-fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
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Apr 8, 2016 20:33
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The Shortest Path posted:The hell is that Bird
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Apr 8, 2016 21:15
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Stay focused guys. Yud. Harry. The bad superhero thing never happened.
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Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies Part Seven quote:
Why is it so surprising that Eliezarry didn’t get Sorted into Slytherin House? Slytherins are supposed to be “cunning” (according to the Sorting Hat’s song); impulse-driven open confrontation with a far older, far more experienced, far more connected authority figure hardly seems to be “cunning”. quote:
Again, escalating the confrontation so far and so fast, without having done any research on your opponent’s capabilities or allies, is really not clever at all. Eliezarry may have read a lot of books but he hasn’t absorbed all that much, it seems. quote:
I guess this is a hint / foreshadowing that part of Voldemort’s soul / personality got mixed up with Eliezarry when Voldemort’s Killing Curse on Eliezarry backfired on him? Does this also explain why Eliezarry is acting so impulsively and rashly?
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Apr 12, 2016 09:17
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He "knows" that Dumbledore values him too highly to allow anything actually bad to happen to him in Hogwarts, because he accidentally guessed that there was a prophecy concerning him and McGonagall gave it away. Also probably a bit of that, yeah.
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Apr 12, 2016 16:21
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The Shortest Path posted:He "knows" that Dumbledore values him too highly to allow anything actually bad to happen to him in Hogwarts, because he accidentally guessed that there was a prophecy concerning him and McGonagall gave it away. So are we really going with the "you can't arrest me, my dad's a lawyer!" attitude here? Is that really what Imm supposed to sympathise with here?
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Apr 13, 2016 08:03
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Furia posted:So are we really going with the "you can't arrest me, my dad's a lawyer!" attitude here? Is that really what Imm supposed to sympathise with here? Well Snape just literally said "I can't be fired, my best friend is a Vice-Dark Lord" sooo...
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Apr 13, 2016 08:13
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NihilCredo posted:Well Snape just literally said "I can't be fired, my best friend is a Vice-Dark Lord" sooo... Huh. Good point. So what we have here is more like two kids arguing in the schoolyard, one who's father works at Nintendo, the other who's father works at Playstation. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute, ladies and gentlemen.
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Apr 13, 2016 11:14
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JosephWongKS posted:
Crabbe and Goyle got into Slytherin, we're basically forced to assume it's a matter of values, not actual attributes. Eliezarry's not doing particular WELL at it but I can certainly see where this might seem like more of a whiney Slytherin reaction than a whiney Ravenclaw reaction. (And in 'fairness' Snape is saying "the vice dark-lord you're threatening to have fire me is not going to do that because he's my best friend.")
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Apr 13, 2016 11:26
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JosephWongKS posted:Why is it so surprising that Eliezarry didn’t get Sorted into Slytherin House? Slytherins are supposed to be “cunning” (according to the Sorting Hat’s song); impulse-driven open confrontation with a far older, far more experienced, far more connected authority figure hardly seems to be “cunning”.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:24
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Ravenfood posted:All of the idiots who brag about their 1600 SAT scores and 2.8 GPA and refuse to study who then work some really lovely undergrad coding job would get sorted into Ravenclaw because they value intelligence, even if they're not actually "smart". Neville's whole deal (iirc, its been a while since I read HP) is that he really, really wants to be brave even if he isn't, so he gets in to Gryffindor. Xander77 fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 23:44
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Ravenfood posted:All of the idiots who brag about their 1600 SAT scores and 2.8 GPA and refuse to study who then work some really lovely undergrad coding job would get sorted into Ravenclaw because they value intelligence, even if they're not actually "smart". Neville's whole deal (iirc, its been a while since I read HP) is that he really, really wants to be brave even if he isn't, so he gets in to Gryffindor. It's also a matter of potential, too. Neville has it in him to be brave. The fact that he's survived all his family put him through looking for magic out of him and isn't full on traumatized shows it.
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Apr 14, 2016 06:52
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Liquid Communism posted:It's also a matter of potential, too. Neville has it in him to be brave. The fact that he's survived all his family put him through looking for magic out of him and isn't full on traumatized shows it. It's also a matter of choice. Neville really wanted to be in Gryffindor. If it's enough for Harry, why wouldn't it be enough for him?
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Apr 14, 2016 11:18
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I figure the sorting hat is more like a sophisticated mood ring, or at best a talented cold-reader, with a little detection magic and centuries of experience to help it out. Like a good fortune teller it probes a little bit and then tells you what you want to hear. Shocking that all of the aristocratic pure-bloods are all obsessed with skullduggery and nothing else, yeah? The hat is there mainly to help place outliers and the undecided. If you already know where you're going, it's not gonna stop you. E: when the hat is stumped or doesn't like your stupid face, Hufflepuff. Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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Apr 14, 2016 19:14
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The sorting makes sense as an idea but it was written by someone who didn't care a giant amount about analyzing the houses so for the most part everyone is cool but slytherin. The idea of all the Hitler youth self-sorting into the same house makes sense though, and I think I remember jk saying she regretted not making any good slytherins?
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Apr 14, 2016 19:58
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The original is really simple. There's a house for smart people. Unless they're heroic smart people, in which case they go into the heroic house. There's a house for the bad guys. And then there's the house for everyone else. Makes perfect sense, really. Any kind of thought given to the issue, any sort of differentiation between the houses, sorting the heroes into different houses and (ostensibly) making a point about cooperation - pretty much anything is an improvement.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:39
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Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies Part Eight quote:
Sure you were just going to blow up the door. quote:
It’s uncharacteristic of Snape to allow Eliezarry to physically remain in the class after the latter essentially threatened to cause physical / magical harm to a teacher. quote:
What’s the point of all this conflict, or any conflict, if Eliezarry’s just going to resolve it with the Time-Turner Ex Machina? Rowling took the Time-Turner from Hermione by the end of Book 2; is Eliezarry going to keep his for the rest of the series?
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Apr 28, 2016 09:45
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JosephWongKS posted:What’s the point of all this conflict, or any conflict, if Eliezarry’s just going to resolve it with the Time-Turner Ex Machina? Rowling took the Time-Turner from Hermione by the end of Book 2; is Eliezarry going to keep his for the rest of the series? There's two ways this could actually serve a purpose. Either Eliezarry gets into more trouble than he otherwise would have because of these shenanigans and learns to control himself (or at least be more subtle), or he suffers no consequences due to being the chosen one and learns he can get away with anything, which gets him into some serious trouble that he can't get out of later. I don't think either of those things happen here, I'm pretty sure this is meant to be a comedy/wish fulfilment section, like "wouldn't it have been awesome if you could have showed up that one mean teacher when you were at school?"
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Tiggum posted:There's two ways this could actually serve a purpose. Either Eliezarry gets into more trouble than he otherwise would have because of these shenanigans and learns to control himself (or at least be more subtle), or he suffers no consequences due to being the chosen one and learns he can get away with anything, which gets him into some serious trouble that he can't get out of later. I don't think either of those things happen here, I'm pretty sure this is meant to be a comedy/wish fulfilment section, like "wouldn't it have been awesome if you could have showed up that one mean teacher when you were at school?" yep. this section is entirely Resentful Nerd Porn. And everyone clapped.
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Apr 28, 2016 11:38
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Nah he actually does get some pretty serious consequences for misusing the Time Turner, though they get worked around or something.
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Apr 28, 2016 15:14
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The Shortest Path posted:Nah he actually does get some pretty serious consequences for misusing the Time Turner, though they get worked around or something. The "consequences" are that he gets to keep it, and a mildly effective lock is added.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:57
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Added Space posted:The "consequences" are that he gets to keep it, and a mildly effective lock is added. Which eventually results in disaster for the school, rather than Harry. (Well, I guess also Harry but the blame is placed on the school.)
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Added Space posted:The "consequences" are that he gets to keep it, and a mildly effective lock is added. He takes a major blow to his pride and ego from the one person he holds any respect for other than Quirrel. It's a consequence in Yud terms.
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Apr 28, 2016 18:30
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the truth about harry potter is that its highly biblically allegorical and that harry potter can be interepreted as some sort of jesus figure(?) i suppose...
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JosephWongKS posted:Rowling took the Time-Turner from Hermione by the end of Book 2; is Eliezarry going to keep his for the rest of the series?[/b] ... Actually, I might say that it's underutilized. *Gasp* *Shock* *Horror* But seriously. When such a game-breaking item as "go back in time at will" is introduced, and you actually drawn attention to it in your fanfic, you'll need to either: 1. Fanwank some sort of a reason for why the time turner can't be used to pretty much do everything and anything, then move on with the goddamned story. 2. Roll with it, and just focus the story around the time turner, and how Harry uses it to take over the universe or whatever. Eliezer starts going with option 2 for a while but (just like every goddamned plot thread and theme, introduced and soon abandoned) quickly lets it go, and large portions of the later story forget about time-turners or hastily explain why they can't be used.
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Apr 29, 2016 21:31
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Don't forget that Rowling also wrote in the Ministry's entire stock of the things getting rendered useless during the battle in the Department of Mysteries as well, to make sure there wasn't an obvious Deus Ex Machina handy.
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Liquid Communism posted:Don't forget that Rowling also wrote in the Ministry's entire stock of the things getting rendered useless during the battle in the Department of Mysteries as well, to make sure there wasn't an obvious Deus Ex Machina handy. Mmm. She also later elaborated on Pottermore and interviews that a) if you managed to actually pull off doing anything directly paradoxical and not consistent with the established timeline (which to be fair usually has to be very deliberate), some really nasty poo poo tends to go down, usually involving your loss of existence as a minimum, and b) all time travel magic is basically limited to five hours maximum. The last time someone tried to time travel back more than five hours, she was flung way too far back, was trapped for a week in 1402, aged five centuries in an instant on returning, a few dozen people spontaneously became un-born, the following tuesday lasted three days, and thursday four hours, and they're still not sure what else went wrong. As a result of both of these, the Ministry tends to just use them for trivial time-management and bureaucratic organisational purposes, because that's how the Ministry rolls.  MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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I could see Barty Crouch pass himself from three hours in the future in the corridor and just say "Evening, Crouch."
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MikeJF posted:The last time someone tried to time travel back more than five hours, she was flung way too far back, was trapped for a week in 1402, aged five centuries in an instant on returning, a few dozen people spontaneously became un-born, the following tuesday lasted three days, and thursday four hours, and they're still not sure what else went wrong. See, I actually like that bit of canon. It's severe enough to be reasonable that people wouldn't gently caress with thee things too much and still just silly enough to keep the whimsy of the original series. Rowling gets a lot of poo poo, but she's not bad at this.
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Dabir posted:I could see Barty Crouch pass himself from three hours in the future in the corridor and just say "Evening, Crouch." I can also see Moody having an elaborate protocol for how to confirm to himself that he is actually himself but time shifted, so as not to accidentally self-terminate.
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For those looking to work off any surplus Yudkowsky-induced trauma, Phil Sandifer's book Neoreaction a Basilisk (which I copyedited and advised on) has just kickstarted. Blog post.
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Can anyone explain to me why is it that I have two friends on facebook both recommending this dreck to me, but they both are STEM majors?
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May 1, 2016 17:43
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Crowsbeak posted:Can anyone explain to me why is it that I have two friends on facebook both recommending this dreck to me, but they both are STEM majors? Your friends are autistic. Also possibly members of a cult.
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Crowsbeak posted:Can anyone explain to me why is it that I have two friends on facebook both recommending this dreck to me, but they both are STEM majors?
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May 1, 2016 18:49
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Crowsbeak posted:Can anyone explain to me why is it that I have two friends on facebook both recommending this dreck to me, but they both are STEM majors? Because STEM majors who haven't studied any philosophy, literature, or the actual scientific method (rather than blindly worshiping SCIENCE) but think they understand it are Yudkowsky's major source of followers.
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Pavlov posted:Your friends are autistic. Also possibly members of a cult. Piell posted:Because STEM majors who haven't studied any philosophy, literature, or the actual scientific method (rather than blindly worshiping SCIENCE) but think they understand it are Yudkowsky's major source of followers. I would say that the autistic one definitley has limited himself to "rationalism". chrisoya posted:It's weird that they recommended it to you on facebook. Do you not have a Reddit account? Nope.
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