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idk what kind of genius people you've been surrounded by your whole life but dumbledore in that whole chapter presents his philosophy very clearly. Dumbledore i

idk what kind of genius people you've been surrounded by your whole life but dumbledore in that whole chapter presents his philosophy very clearly. Dumbledore is the non-rational soft-hearted man that had to learn his rationality through bitter life lessons instead of books, his character is entirely self consistent and believeable. You haven't read the book and it shows, it's the only book I've ever read that is in stark contrast to all the rest because every character has its own life and it doesn't feel at all lazily written. Worm on the other hand felt entirely rushed and badly written because of the brisk pace it was released on. Worm didn't feel planned and coherent at all. If your bias with the book started with danluu's review and you confirmed that bias from one page / chapter then I'm truly sorry for you. Since you seem like you'll never actually read it I'll go ahead and spoil it for you.. Harry's reason for being that wise and smart for his age is because he's basically a 50-year old hyper-rational individual that lost all his memories but kept his patterns of thinking, if that's not a good reason for the smartest 11-year old that ever lived idk what else is.

_dain_ 5y ago
look, I have read it. I know what the plot is, I know the "justification". I just linked the danluu review because it's a thorough dissection. other than quirrel, the hpmor characters do not have their own lives, they are pure foils for the self-insert protagonist. they behave in stupid ways to make the plot happen and to make the protagonist look smart. harry and quirrel are like a pair of orbiting black holes; they distort the fabric of the narrative around them so that every direction points towards how "smart" and "awesome" they are. dumbledore is written as a senile idiot. this is indisputable: "this is your father's rock". yes, there's a payoff to it, no, it doesn't make him less of a senile idiot. worm is superior in every way despite being rushed, because a) most characters have rich enough internal lives that they could be main characters of their own stories (because they were in discarded drafts), b) the protagonist does both awesome and unhinged things without being an annoying author self-insert, c) it doesn't purport to teach the reader science and then get it wrong. and worm is just a YA novel, it's not highbrow literature. the last novel I read was Master and Margarita ... go read that I guess. even an uncultured dipshit like me can tell you it's on a whole other plane of quality entirely. this will be my last reply since I'm in the rate-limit sin bin.

_dain_ 5y ago

look, I have read it. I know what the plot is, I know the "justification". I just linked the danluu review because it's a thorough dissection. other than quirrel, the hpmor characters do not have their own lives, they are pure foils for the self-insert protagonist. they behave in stupid ways to make the plot happen and to make the protagonist look smart. harry and quirrel are like a pair of orbiting black holes; they distort the fabric of the narrative around them so that every direction points towards how "smart" and "awesome" they are. dumbledore is written as a senile idiot. this is indisputable: "this is your father's rock". yes, there's a payoff to it, no, it doesn't make him less of a senile idiot. worm is superior in every way despite being rushed, because a) most characters have rich enough internal lives that they could be main characters of their own stories (because they were in discarded drafts), b) the protagonist does both awesome and unhinged things without being an annoying author self-insert, c) it doesn't purport to teach the reader science and then get it wrong. and worm is just a YA novel, it's not highbrow literature. the last novel I read was Master and Margarita ... go read that I guess. even an uncultured dipshit like me can tell you it's on a whole other plane of quality entirely. this will be my last reply since I'm in the rate-limit sin bin.