Daily Read Aloud

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 72: Self Actualization, Part 7: Plausible Deniability (6) - He's expecting us! Susan would have whispered to give up, to abort the plan, only there was no way to convey a message to - "Silencio," said the bully in a soft, deliberate voice with his wand pointed toward the corridor, the blue haze of his ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 72: Self Actualization, Part 7: Plausible Deniability (5) - Lavender raised a hand, then, and when Hermione turned to look at her, Lavender, looking puzzled, pointed straight down the corridor, gestured to herself, and then tried to sign something else that Susan didn't understand - General Granger shook her ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 72: Self Actualization, Part 7: Plausible Deniability (4) - Just hand her one of the three Deathly Hallows created centuries before Hogwarts? She could say that she felt flattered, but this went way beyond feeling flattered, into making her wonder just what she was to Harry, exactly. Maybe Harry was the sort ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 72: Self Actualization, Part 7: Plausible Deniability (3) - It was at times like this that Hermione wondered if she was ever going to get used to the way Harry thought. "Harry, I really," her voice stuck for a second, "really, really don't want them getting hurt! Especially because of something I ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 72: Self Actualization, Part 7: Plausible Deniability (2) - The boy looked searchingly around them, not just to every side, but even upward toward the ceiling and down toward the floor. And then Harry stuck a hand in his pouch and said, "Invisibility cloak." "Gleep?" said Hermione. Harry was already drawing ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 72: Self Actualization, Part 7: Plausible Deniability (1) - Chapter 72: Self Actualization, Part 7: Plausible Deniability The winter Sun had well set by the time dinner ended, and so it was amid the peaceful light of stars twinkling down from the enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall that Hermione left ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 (7) - Daphne looked around conspiratorially. "Come to my room and I'll tell you." They went off toward the stairs that led downward, the private rooms were even lower in the lake than the seventh-year dorms... Soon enough Daphne was sitting in her comfy ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 (6) - Tracey smiled, and meant it. "Well, I'll just go on being friendly, then," she said, and left the room with a skip in her step, feeling like a real Slytherin for maybe the first time in her life, and having just decided that Draco Malfoy would be ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 (5) - Harry's eyes had that look they had when he was very rapidly calculating something, and then he said, "Hermione, what's the chance that -" "She said it in front of Lavender and Tracey." "Um," said Padma. "Should I not've done that?" "Wait here," ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 (4) - "Excuse me," said Hermione, and then when the others looked at her again, "Ah..." while she tried to organize her thoughts. "I mean, um... Hannah... trying to become a hero so that a boy will like you isn't very feminist." "It's pronounced feminine ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 (3) - Although considering how fast rumors spread through Hogwarts, now that Padma had spilled the beans, Millicent had probably told him thirty minutes ago... In fact... now that Daphne thought about it... "So," said Parvati. "We've got to ask the ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 (2) - The heroines crept past solemn oaken panels carved with gilded frescos, and came to a dead end leading into a boys' bathroom, and turned around, and wandered back through the solemn oaken panels carved with gilded frescos, and then turned through ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 (1) - Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Part 6 "Well," Daphne whispered, keeping her voice as low as she could, "at least now I don't feel like the only sane person in Hogwarts any more." "Because now you've got the rest of us as friends?" whispered ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Part 5 (8) - Lavender snorted. "I guess you won't be slaying armies of Inferi anytime soon -" "Stop that!" Hermione said sharply. "Look, all of us have got to learn to be heroines, right? It's okay if someone doesn't know right away." "The Headmaster doesn't ...

Today`s fragments to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Part 5 (7) - Hermione turned back to face Dumbledore again, took a deep breath, and said, "Well, maybe people who are going to be heroes, will be heroes no matter what. But I don't see how anyone could really know that, aside from just saying it afterward. And ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - CHAPTER XXXV (3) - "Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too. Blame it all! just ...

Today`s fragments to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Part 5 (6) - "Miss Granger," said Dumbledore, now looking more serious, "I think you and I may have had a bit of a misunderstanding. I did not mean to imply that you could not, or should not be a hero. I certainly did not mean to imply that witches in general ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - CHAPTER XXXV (2) - He bravely bore his miseries three weeks, and then one day turned up missing. For forty-eight hours the widow hunted for him everywhere in great distress. The public were profoundly concerned; they searched high and low, they dragged the river for ...

Today`s fragments to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Part 5 (5) - Some of the girls and boys chuckled, as did Professor McGonagall, who looked wry and proud at the same time. "You may be right about that," said the Defense Professor, his eyes half-lidded. He tossed Hermione the button, and she caught it without ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - CHAPTER XXXV (1) - CHAPTER XXXV THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg. So vast a sum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible. It was talked about, gloated over, ...

Today`s fragments to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Part 5 (4) - There was a half-smile on Professor Quirrell's face as he replied, "Not really, Miss Davis. In truth I do not care about that sort of thing in the slightest. But it is futile to count the witches among Ministers of Magic and other such ordinary folk ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - CHAPTER XXXIV (1) - CHAPTER XXXIV HUCK said: "Tom, we can slope, if we can find a rope. The window ain't high from the ground." "Shucks! what do you want to slope for?" "Well, I ain't used to that kind of a crowd. I can't stand it. I ain't going down there, ...

Today`s fragments to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Part 5 (3) - "I hardly think so!" snapped Professor Sinistra. A cold chuckle. "I suspect it happens more often than any dare suggest, in the proudest pureblood families. Some lonely witch spies a handsome Muggle; and thinks how very easy it would be, to slip the ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - CHAPTER XXXIII (5) - "What orgies?" "I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too. Come along, Huck, we've been in here a long time. It's getting late, I reckon. I'm hungry, too. We'll eat and smoke when we get to the skiff." They ...

Today`s fragments to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Part 5 (2) - And Professor Quirrell, who was leaning with his back against the far stone wall and watching with unreadable eyes. The Defense Professor had gotten one of her buttons, though she'd never sold one to him; and he wasn't wearing it, but idly tossing ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - CHAPTER XXXIII (4) - "Tom, less git out of here!" "What! and leave the treasure?" "Yes—leave it. Injun Joe's ghost is round about there, certain." "No it ain't, Huck, no it ain't. It would ha'nt the place where he died—away out at the mouth of the cave—five mile from ...