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I hope you didn't cast any random spells scrawled in your Advanced Potion-Making book. Sectumsempra is a nono, I hear.

by h0p3 4y ago

gostsamo 4y ago
Recently I read HPMOR and this paragraph was one of many delights there: The cold in the room seemed to deepen. “A sixth-year Gryffindor cast a curse at one of my more promising students, a sixth-year Slytherin.” Harry swallowed. “What...sort of curse?” And the fury on Professor Quirrell’s face was no longer contained. “Why bother to ask an unimportant question like that, Mr Potter? Our friend the sixth-year Gryffindor did not think it was important!” “Are you serious?” Harry said before he could stop himself. “No, I’m in a terrible mood today for no particular reason. Yes I’m serious, you fool! He didn’t know. He actually didn’t know. I didn’t believe it until the Aurors confirmed it under Veritaserum. He is in his sixth year at Hogwarts and he cast a high-level Dark curse without knowing what it did.” “You don’t mean,” Harry said, “that he was mistaken about what it did, that he somehow read the wrong spell description—” “All he knew was that it was meant to be directed at an enemy. He knew that was all he knew.” And that had been enough to cast the spell. “I do not understand how anything with that small a brain could walk upright.” “Indeed, Mr Potter,” said Professor Quirrell. There was a pause. Professor Quirrell leaned forward and picked up the silver inkwell from his desk, turning it around in his hands, staring at it as though wondering how he could go about torturing an inkwell to death. “Was the sixth-year Slytherin seriously hurt?” said Harry. “Yes.” “Was the sixth-year Gryffindor raised by Muggles?” “Yes.” “Is Dumbledore refusing to expel him because the poor boy didn’t know?” Professor Quirrell’s hands whitened on the inkwell. “Do you have a point, Mr Potter, or are you just stating the obvious?” “Professor Quirrell,” said Harry gravely, “all the Muggle-raised students in Hogwarts need a safety lecture in which they are told the things so ridiculously obvious that no wizardborn would ever think to mention them. Don’t cast curses if you don’t know what they do, if you discover something dangerous don’t tell the world about it, don’t brew high-level potions without supervision in a bathroom, the reason why there are underage magic laws, all the basics.”
- shepherdjerred 4y ago
  Do you recommend HMOR? I’ve never heard of it, but the Wikipedia page sounded interesting
  - gostsamo 4y ago
    Definitely. I might not always agree with the author, but reading it is like having an intelligent and funny conversation.
  - MollyRealized 4y ago
    Completely agree with other commenter. It's a very interesting read. I don't necessarily agree with every statement but it's a learning experience that is made exceptionally enjoyable by fantastic writing.
  - D-Coder 4y ago
    It's very funny. Every chapter has something. From Chapter 48 (about two pages long): And when Harry had offered that hypothesis, Draco had claimed that he could remember a story - Harry hoped to Cthulhu that this one story was just a fairy tale, it had that ring to it, but there was a story - about Salazar Slytherin sending a brave young viper on a mission to gather information from other snakes. If any snake a Parselmouth had talked to, could make other snakes self-aware by talking to them, then... Then... Harry didn't even know why his mind was going all "then... then..." when he knew perfectly well how the exponential progression would work, it was just the sheer moral horror of it that was blowing his mind. And what if someone had invented a spell like that to talk to cows? What if there were Poultrymouths?
  - burlesona 4y ago
    I thought it was quite good. If you basically like Harry Potter but find it infuriating how often the protagonists problems could have been solved in five minutes if they would have just told the adults... then HPMOR might interest you. Now, it's a didactic book, it's rather long, and you may or may not agree with the author's worldview, so whether you'll really enjoy it I can't say. But it's very well-written and in some ways tells a more "believable" Harry Potter story than the originals.

I hope you didn't cast any random spells scrawled in your Advanced Potion-Making book. Sectumsempra is a nono, I hear.

by h0p3 4y ago

I hope you didn't cast any random spells scrawled in your Advanced Potion-Making book. Sectumsempra is a nono, I hear.

Recently I read HPMOR and this paragraph was one of many delights there: The cold in the room seemed to deepen. “A sixth-year Gryffindor cast a curse at one of my more promising students, a sixth-year Slytherin.” Harry swallowed. “What...sort of curse?” And the fury on Professor Quirrell’s face was no longer contained. “Why bother to ask an unimportant question like that, Mr Potter? Our friend the sixth-year Gryffindor did not think it was important!” “Are you serious?” Harry said before he could stop himself. “No, I’m in a terrible mood today for no particular reason. Yes I’m serious, you fool! He didn’t know. He actually didn’t know. I didn’t believe it until the Aurors confirmed it under Veritaserum. He is in his sixth year at Hogwarts and he cast a high-level Dark curse without knowing what it did.” “You don’t mean,” Harry said, “that he was mistaken about what it did, that he somehow read the wrong spell description—” “All he knew was that it was meant to be directed at an enemy. He knew that was all he knew.” And that had been enough to cast the spell. “I do not understand how anything with that small a brain could walk upright.” “Indeed, Mr Potter,” said Professor Quirrell. There was a pause. Professor Quirrell leaned forward and picked up the silver inkwell from his desk, turning it around in his hands, staring at it as though wondering how he could go about torturing an inkwell to death. “Was the sixth-year Slytherin seriously hurt?” said Harry. “Yes.” “Was the sixth-year Gryffindor raised by Muggles?” “Yes.” “Is Dumbledore refusing to expel him because the poor boy didn’t know?” Professor Quirrell’s hands whitened on the inkwell. “Do you have a point, Mr Potter, or are you just stating the obvious?” “Professor Quirrell,” said Harry gravely, “all the Muggle-raised students in Hogwarts need a safety lecture in which they are told the things so ridiculously obvious that no wizardborn would ever think to mention them. Don’t cast curses if you don’t know what they do, if you discover something dangerous don’t tell the world about it, don’t brew high-level potions without supervision in a bathroom, the reason why there are underage magic laws, all the basics.”

shepherdjerred 4y ago
Do you recommend HMOR? I’ve never heard of it, but the Wikipedia page sounded interesting
- gostsamo 4y ago
  Definitely. I might not always agree with the author, but reading it is like having an intelligent and funny conversation.
- MollyRealized 4y ago
  Completely agree with other commenter. It's a very interesting read. I don't necessarily agree with every statement but it's a learning experience that is made exceptionally enjoyable by fantastic writing.
- D-Coder 4y ago
  It's very funny. Every chapter has something. From Chapter 48 (about two pages long): And when Harry had offered that hypothesis, Draco had claimed that he could remember a story - Harry hoped to Cthulhu that this one story was just a fairy tale, it had that ring to it, but there was a story - about Salazar Slytherin sending a brave young viper on a mission to gather information from other snakes. If any snake a Parselmouth had talked to, could make other snakes self-aware by talking to them, then... Then... Harry didn't even know why his mind was going all "then... then..." when he knew perfectly well how the exponential progression would work, it was just the sheer moral horror of it that was blowing his mind. And what if someone had invented a spell like that to talk to cows? What if there were Poultrymouths?
- burlesona 4y ago
  I thought it was quite good. If you basically like Harry Potter but find it infuriating how often the protagonists problems could have been solved in five minutes if they would have just told the adults... then HPMOR might interest you. Now, it's a didactic book, it's rather long, and you may or may not agree with the author's worldview, so whether you'll really enjoy it I can't say. But it's very well-written and in some ways tells a more "believable" Harry Potter story than the originals.