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Harry isn’t fostered by idiots who shut him up in a cupboard. HPMOR is a thinking person’s story about magic and heroism. Per Rowling’s policy on fan fiction, she will not bring any legal action against the author as long as the book is not commercially distributed. It was started more than five years ago and finished this March. HPMOR is a work of fan fiction, but the good kind, in which the author invests time and effort to pay tribute to the original and yet gives us a brand new story that stands on its own. Or how, in fact, the magic in the series works because it’s a tad ridiculous that ‘ Wingardium Leviosa’ is all it takes to defy that great universal constant: gravity. Or why Lily Potter’s sacrifice for her son was the only such sacrifice to end up saving anyone from the Killing Curse even though there must have been people throughout history who had made similar sacrifices. Like why Slytherin House is officially allowed by the school to be a breeding ground for bigoted schmucks. The result is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s 1983-page, 122-chapter-long tour de force that:Ī) Reduces the gargantuan number of significant plot holes in the Potter saga to – in my opinion – just one.ī) Adds internal consistency to a story that, to paraphrase JK Rowling herself, wouldn’t recognise internal consistency if it danced naked in front of it wearing Dobby’s tea cosy.Ĭ) Prevents the villain from turning into a pathetic cartoon that even Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman would have been able to beat.ĭ) Asks some questions that the characters in the series really should have been asking.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality ( HPMOR), is what happens when someone who co-founded a “community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality” read Harry Potter and felt that way. Have you ever, while reading a book, wished that you were the author because it’s so clear that the characters are being stupid and there’s a simple course of action that could make everything okay?

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