I spent last weekend reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is rather good if you don't mind extremely OOC!Harry and secular humanism. I managed to get myself through it in 4 days, so I really do mean "spent last weekend".
I noticed one thing while I was reading it: Grindelwald is alive, and was throughout nearly the entire story. He's there basically to be killed in canon book 7, but in HPMoR he's mentioned once at the end of the first act, and then mostly ignored. And now I'm thinking, gosh, maybe another fic writer can think of something to do with him. (I haven't read all that much Potterfic, so maybe someone has already?)
The other, related question is what Doug will think of the Dementors once he actually puts together what Azkaban is. Yudkowsky's story asserts that Grindelwald was not guarded by dementors, and that seems most likely to be case in canon, because something something Bayes. Doug's Homeline has some way of keeping magical prisoners without torture, right?
I noticed one thing while I was reading it: Grindelwald is alive, and was throughout nearly the entire story. He's there basically to be killed in canon book 7, but in HPMoR he's mentioned once at the end of the first act, and then mostly ignored. And now I'm thinking, gosh, maybe another fic writer can think of something to do with him. (I haven't read all that much Potterfic, so maybe someone has already?)
The other, related question is what Doug will think of the Dementors once he actually puts together what Azkaban is. Yudkowsky's story asserts that Grindelwald was not guarded by dementors, and that seems most likely to be case in canon, because something something Bayes. Doug's Homeline has some way of keeping magical prisoners without torture, right?
DW8-1 Wrote:During Sirius's half of the conversation I learned about Dementors, the prison's guards. They sounded like a variety of undead not unlike the wraiths we occasionally ran across back home, and I decided that I did not want to encounter one.Well, okay, if you spell that out that clearly, I guess we'll get to find out!
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