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== Harry's Odd sleep Cycle Means something ==
Perhaps it is a clue about his dark side. Maybe it has something to do with Quirrells zombie mode.
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** I agree it's probably just an excuse to give him a time turner. Still, I find it easier to believe that they'd give him one when he really required it to function properly (because of a condition that really exists) than I would if he just got one randomly, like happens in some other fan fictions.
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== "One killing curse will bring it down!" ==
A critical scene in the first book is that of the trio taking down the troll in the girl's restroom. As Draco has largely supplanted Ron's role in this fic, his method for surviving such an encounter may provide an interesting twist in the future narrative. What's an Avada Kedavra amongst friends, after all? "There is a time and a place for taking your enemy alive, and inside a Hogwarts classroom is usually one of those places." If Draco leaves her be, there's no reason for Hermione to get cornered in a bathroom this time, after all...
* Inevitably, the Killing Curse will be cast through ''REASON'' and ''RATIONALISM''. It's not like unusual castings of it [[The Girl Who Lived
** Extending this: Harry will be able to cast it through reason and rationalism, but only when taken over by his dark side. We've already seen that it has the necessary priors to develop a logical proof that "anyone who annoys me needs to die", which is not something Normal!Harry is likely to decide.
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'''Consequences:''' Dumbledore has less reasons to keep his crush on Grindewald a secret, but it is possible that it is a recent trend.
* Gellert being a man is no longer a problem. Gellert being ''[[A Nazi
=== Narcissa died, Dumbledore claims to be the killer. ===
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== The reason everyone is so much smarter in this fanfic than they are in canon is that their ancestors were all exposed to the Wold Newton meteorite from [[Philip Jose Farmer]]'s Wold Newton family stories == It would handily reduce the points of divergence to one without contradicting anything.
== Harry Potter is in fact [[
'''[[
'''Rational!Harry''': ''I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organized.''
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== Roger Bacon's Diary is a Horcrux ==
And Rita Skeeter was the sacrifice necessary to turn it into the same. Yes, I think Quirrellmort is enough of a [[Magnificent Bastard]] to actually surreptitiously make a horcrux '''onscreen.''' He's certainly clever enough to make it from an object that has emotional weight to Harry rather than to himself.
* In Canon making a Horcrux doesn't just require a murder but also 'something awful' of an unspecified nature ([[
== Snape will switch back over to Voldemort's side. ==
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== This story is secretly a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] ==
There are quite a few spells and magical items that are closer to [[Dungeons and Dragons]] than regular Harry Potter. The Comed-Tea is probably from [[
== Rather than stealing fame from the unwilling by magic, Gilderoy Lockheart will steal it from the willing by reputation. ==
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* Possible evidence for this theory is a floor in chapter 75, which is tiled in pentagons. While it's true that you can use irregularly shaped pentagons to tile a floor, you need some sort of [[Alien Geometries]] to get regular pentagons to tessellate.
* Exactly what chain of events would ever lead Canon!Tracey Davis to ever utter those exact words described in Ch.74? Also, I wouldn't put it past Hogwarts - even Canon!Hogwarts - to have such a pentagonally-tiled corridor.
** Oh, by the way, I'll just leave [
== Harry's intelligence is the result of accidental, underage magic ==
It is stated in ''[[Harry Potter (
== How the animagus transformation might work. ==
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This rather neatly explains the animagus transformation: a 4-dimensional object is merely MOVING so a different CROSS-SECTION happens to intersect our 3-dimensional universe; it's not changing shape or mass at all, and the animagus can go on thinking like a human because the human brain is still there, no less a part of the 4-dimensional physical structure than it is when the human-shaped part of the animagus is intersecting our universe.
This doesn't explain TRANSFIGURATION, in this specific case of the creation of the 4-dimensional object in the first place, or in general, but it may explain mass-changing shapeshifting like animagi (or the Wolves in [[
* I was thinking of animagi in terms of Alan Moore![[
== Azkaban Island is the last remaining chunk of Atlantis ==
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* Simpler explanation: magic doesn't exist in genes at all. It's passed by heredity, but it finds its own way, independent of any long chains of mere matter.
== Narcissa is only dead to Lucius some of the time. When he does to sleep at night, [[Awake (TV series)|he's in another world where Draco died and Narcissa lives]]. ==
[[Actor Allusion]].
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It's a supercomputer system with holographic/replicator capabilities a la [[Star Trek]].
When it predicts the future during a Divination function call, it actually [
On the other hand, as long as it's within a few hours, the predictions can be accurate enough to support the [[Time Machine|Time Turner]]. That's right, ''Divination is the basis of the Time Turner''. How, you ask? Well, Magic isn't actually capable of manipulating time/changing the past: It simply ''predicts'' a future version of you that will use the Time Turner and then ''[[Matter Replicator|copies]]'' that version into the current time frame. And when the current version of you uses the Time Turner, the current version is simply erased from existence, leaving behind a future version that's so accurate in composition and behavior that nobody in the world can tell the difference. That's right, Harry has already cloned/killed himself hundreds---perhaps ''thousands''---of times '''[[Nightmare Fuel|without even being aware of it]]'''.
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The founders knew this theory and exploited the hell out of it when they created Hogwarts, its location in Scotland being no mere coincidence. Scotland is historically geologically active, and the millions of years of tectonic activity in that region would provide ample power for both the construction of the castle and the creation and maintenance of its many wards and enchantments.
The logical conclusion of all this--neatly packing away all the WMG for Harry's reaction to learning about the Philosopher's Stone--is that [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
Alternatively, as the work-in-work-out potionmaking principle is about capturing the work through something which has been changed by the work, an ingredient would have to be altered by something else's immortality. For example, someone killed by an idea that just won't die.
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* Memory is potentially infinite, but discrete.
* World is fully determinictic, computation from given state of memory always results in same steps.
* To simplify reasoning let's assume that the basis of simulation isn't particles, wave functions or something, but [
* Amount of one actor's memory is finite and known to simulator (such is real life: at least your memory can't be larger than required for memorizing positions of all particles in your body).
* A certain actor, let's call him Harry, can travel in time using Time-Turner.
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