No. Quirrell knew what was going on because of the empathic link with Harry. The "ancient device" line was him covering up that this existed.
From Reddit, when people answered the exact same commentary made by me.
It's a copywriting technique. It makes easier for people to read (note how the subjects of newsletters campaings usually come like that). Don't ask me for the research, I have no idea where I've read it.
In this case, I guess he just pasted the title here.
Yep.
I'm rather curious how parents can "be" something to children without doing, since it's supposed children don't know their parents before their first contact (after birth, I mean).
Yep, most of it. I mean, ALL of it. It's just too much. Quirrel (and Voldemort) in the cannon aren't that smart, so I'm having so trouble updating that.
Latest Author's Note Update.
There’s a chance here to reach up toward that impossible dream of a better world where people aren’t crazy all the damn time, because believe it or not, nobody’s really tried anything like this before. [...] Science, reason, and rationality – it’s what Muggles use instead of magic, and it’s all we’ve got.
I thought it was really inspiring.
I had such a hard time convincing myself on this (quirrel = voldemort).
Yes, I'm probably biased, but I don't know how. I suspect it's because I can't think of how Quirrelmort would do all that stuff, so I assumed he wouldn't.
Step by step:
By the way, thanks for the code
The link in the end of text is broken. I've found another one, would you update it?
Check whether it is the same pdf before posting. I believe it is.
Screw AI, let's just build Feynman when we get the technology. He was a hoot!
Sounds good to me.
What's exactly the next step after I notice I'm confused?
...How? How? In retrospect it had been an obvious sort of idea as cunning plots went, but Granger wasn't supposed to be cunning! She'd been too much of a Hufflepuff to use a Simple Strike Hex! Had Professor Quirrell been advising her despite his promise, or...
And then Draco finally did what he should have done much earlier.
What he should have done after the first time he met with Granger.
What Harry Potter had told him to do, trained him to do, and yet Harry had also warned Draco that it would take tim
I didn't understand the song (I haven't watched Ghostbusters), but I think the existence of a song itself to Harry, when he's walking down to the selector hat is a nice, funny point in the history.
That's why I think it must to be kept. It's one of those things that actually makes sense in the HPMOR world.
Yeah, I guess one future key ability will be know how keywords use to solve a problem. Using the google, of course.
Really thank you, Alejandro1, you clarified the "inertial reference" point.
Going a little bit beyond, what the heck the gravity has to do with time turners and time travel? My knowledge is pretty restrict in this area (almost zero), so if you can't answer this in a simple way [1]; just saying "go study X" will work fine,too, if that's the case.
[1] As Feynman says, if you want to explain something complicated for someone, you can rephrase or use analogies as long as the person has an (or a few) equivalent model of that topic in their rea...
Could you re-explain this?
Especially thorny is that the surface of the earth accelerates upwards relative to inertial reference frames; if you stay in your inertial reference frame played backwards through time, you don't lose the earth in space, but you do oscillate through it like a mass on a spring. I personally think this is a really cool way for time travel to work, but it's clearly not how time turners do
I don't even konw what search for in google so that I undestand it: special relativity?
First, imagine yourself in a spaceship far away from any gravitational sources. If your rockets are off, objects inside the ship left at rest relative to it will stay at rest. In this situation, your ship is in an inertial reference frame, so called because in it the law of inertia is valid. (By contrast, if your rockets are on, objects left at rest will start accelerating towards the back wall, unless there is some countervailing force acting on them).
Now imagine your spaceship close to Earth, within its gravitational field. What is an inertial frame now?...
You deserve far more karma than what you received, my friend.
By the way, could you link me to the argument expressed here?
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How is the hiring working, if "Age and credentials are irrelevant": Those who submit first get the first shot?
I got pumped out by the oportunity.
This is driving me crazy.
I never know when he's doing evil or not. This chapter, for example, led me to believe he was doing good at some point of his life. Although my rationalist-beginner-side is screaming at me he is Voldemort or something, I can't help but sympathize with that point.
Canon!Ron had a lot of time and personal interaction in which to grow to like Hermione. MoR!Ron is in a different house, and much of his interaction with her is informed by her close friendship with Harry, whom he considers Evil. And according to Ron, being friends with Evil is extremely damning in and of itself.
It would be nice if the disruptive effect they have on the rest of my life was more localized.
I think exactly like that.
I vote up to have them released all at once.
Harry apologizes through an elaborate prank that utilizes the Time Turner, the True Cloak of Invisibility, and exploding birthday cake.
I laughed so hard that it hurt.
I seem to recall that the great EY seems to have said that this story ends after the first year of Hogwarts.
Wait... what?
Telling lies, plotting, sneakering invisible in the girl's dorm (writing in her book while invisible), so that Lili disliked Snape.
Harry as we know him will cease to exist. Voldemort will go on in triumph -- as Harry Potter, the boy who destroyed Voldemort twice over. Harry will be the beloved hero of magical Britain -- and Voldemort inside.
Very structured, but... a sad end? Harry, the almost ratinalist, losing? This seems odd.
wait, Quirrel killed Rita? Can any of you quote that part for me? I can't believe I skipped this one.
wait, Quirrel killed Rita?
Squished her like a bug.
See Chapter 26:
Nestled up against the wall, where Professor Quirrell had stumbled, glistened the crushed remains of a beautiful blue beetle.
(The stumbling happened earlier in the same chapter, Quirrell covered it though, feigning dizziness.)
Lily's last conversation with Voldemort just so happens to replicate the requirements of a Dark ritual - you name the thing sacrificed, and then the thing to be gained.
"I accept the bargain. Yourself to die, and the child to live."
That's really awesome.
Yeah, I never thought about it, Maybe D isn't evil, making Snape suffering with Lili; maybe he was just trying to help Petunia.
This is actually weird. How can he write such a good fic if he didn't read all the books, relying only in definitions in the wiki? If so, he gain two more points of respect.
I don't get it straight: will Harry declare war to whom? To the dementors?
But, your line of thought is interesting.
This is a "knowledge builds up on previous knowledge" problem. It's not that math is fundamentally hard or something a person with normal intelligence can't achieve.
It's just a matter of systematically filling the gaps in your knowledge. Some people have wider gaps, others have narrower ones. Past experience counts a lot here.
The ideal posture is starting from the ground. Really, go back to the beginning of high school of you need to (that's no shame), but make sure you have the fundamentals right (and you expose yourself to a variety of applicat... (read more)