Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

[Juana]

He should register an account.

This.

I'm not sure how he's reinterpreting Bella. What Quirrelmort says about her to Harry ought to be taken with a grain of salt, but this story's already reinterpreted pretty much everyone. For Harry not to back out when he sees Bella for the first time, she's got to have received quite the makeover.

I still want to know what he's got up his sleeve regarding Sirius.

[Pope Lecherous]

I doubt the author will change Bellatrix in any severe way.  With Harry's powers of rationality and a little research on his part, he could determine that something is hugely wrong with this picture. 

[Cain]

But then Voldemort would know exposing Harry in any way to Bellatrix would ruin his cover.  And since we've already established this Voldemort is not a fool, and indeed Harry himself has doubts as to whether he could outwit him, it doesn't seem like the kind of move he would make.  Because then he would have to kill him, and as we've already established, Voldemort has had many chances to kill Harry that he has not yet taken (it could be, of course, he intends to keep him alive for long enough to enact a ritual like the one in the Goblet of Fire...but since Voldemort already has a body, one which was proven to not be involved in Deatheater activities, he may have decided possessing Quirrell is the best possible alternative, next to a brand new and normal looking body.  And even that could pose difficulties of background etc).

I initially wondered if Voldemort was going there in order to kill Bellatrix, for whatever reason, a break with the past, knowledge about the horcrux, something like that.  But that doesn't make sense either in canon (where she is a rather dim, but viciously loyal fanatic of the Dark Lord) or in MoR, where no-one has escaped from Azkaban before and nearly everyone believes Voldemort is dead anyway.

Of course, knowing Voldemort's motivation would help a lot.  But then, if we knew, I wouldn't have so much fun playing at figuring it out.

[Kai]

I'm really not sure what Harry's reaction will be. It's obvious he was thinking of Sirius rather than Bellatrix, so he may correct Quirrelmort at the beginning of the next chapter. On the other hand, he may keep it to himself and take it into his own hands to collect Sirius while at Azkaban.

[Kai]

Also, I just saw the authors notes for part 51, and what Cain said on the last page finally made sense.

HI ELIEZER!

Chapter 52-54: the perfect crime gone bad. Well, it wouldn't fit the character of Harry for anything else to happen.

[Jasper]

I only now noticed that he mentions this thread in the authors' notes.  That's pretty cool!

[Triple Zero]

I only now noticed that he mentions this thread in the authors' notes.  That's pretty cool!

I would like to take this opportunity to hail Discordia, and say that yes, in fact, I would like it very much if you started convincing people that I was some sort of shadowy conspiratorial figure. Honestly I'm disappointed that this hasn't happened already.

hehehehe

[Cain]

We should get on with that, at some point.  Potentially useful starting places -

- Science/Rationality/Enlightenment/Illuminism = Elizier is an Illuminatus
- Science as secret, rituals = Elizier is an Illuminatus who wants to combine science with secret occult rituals!
- HP&MoR = Elizier is an Illuminatus who wants to combine science with secret occult rituals in order to become a God and is using contemporary pop culture figures as propaganda and to recruit for his cause!

And so on and so forth.

[Jasper]

Add in some Transhumanistic xenophobia, and bobs yer uncle.  Where do we start?

[Requia ☣]

A new, agonizingly short, chapter is up.

[Jasper]

Yeah I was dismayed by its brevity as well, but he did say he might do a weds update right?  I'd almost prefer bi-weekly updates if I could get them.

[Kai]

Jesus christ, he made a boomstick.

[Cain]

Chainsaw hand would've been better 

[Kai]

So it worked, they escaped. But for what? What is Quirrelmort planning? Is it truly the scenario that Dumbledore laid out, the one that came at the end of the fourth book?

[Cain]

I wonder if Harry telling Bella he was Voldemort is going to bite him on the ass some way down the line.  A lot of the school already thinks he's halfway towards being a Dark Wizard, Lucius Malfoy is afraid of him and he did figure out that Voldemort wasn't dead rather quickly... I mean, looking at it from that point of view, throw in Bella's testimony and even given her insanity you'd have to wonder if something seriously wrong was going on.