Daily Read Aloud

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (2) - "Shall we put it to vote of the Wizengamot?" said Lucius Malfoy. "I think few of us would like to see the little murderess go free. By a show of hands, that additional compensation of one hundred thousand Galleons would be required to cancel the ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (1) - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 In rising half-circles of dark stone, a great sea of upraised hands. The Lords and Ladies of the Wizengamot, in plum-colored robes marked with a silver 'W', stared down in stern rebuke at a young girl ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (8) - "Plot - or no plot -" Lucius's voice was trembling. "This mudblood filth has touched my son and for that I will end her. You should know that full well, Harry Potter." "It is questionable," the boy said, "to put it mildly, whether Hermione Granger ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (7) - The old wizard stood at the podium. The old wizard stood at the podium, his face twisting, untwisting - "Stop it," said the old witch. "You know the answer you must give, Albus. It will not change for agonizing over it." The old wizard spoke. "No," ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (6) - But Albus Dumbledore said, in one gentle reminder after another, that the perpetrator was a first-year girl in Hogwarts; that many had done foolish things during their youth; that a first-year in Hogwarts was simply too young to comprehend the ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (5) - One of the three Aurors stepped forward. After the first few questions Harry looked away and stared off to one side with his fingers in his ears, as Hermione's brain played back the contents of the False Memory Charm. He couldn't handle the ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (4) - Slowly, Harry Potter sat back down again as Professor McGonagall pulled down with her grip on his wrist. But by then he'd already declared war on the country of magical Britain, and the idea of other people calling him a Dark Lord no longer seemed ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (3) - The leading article, written by some name that Harry didn't recognize, had called for the minimum age for Azkaban to be lowered, just so that the twisted mudblood who had defaced the honor of Scotland with her savage, unprovoked attack upon the last ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (2) - Filing solemnly into this room are witches and wizards in plum-colored robes each embroidered with a silver W. They carry themselves with an air of seriousness showing that they are well aware that they are terribly, terribly important. They are ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect (1) - Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 2, The Horns Effect The Most Ancient Hall of the Wizengamot is cool and dark, with concentric half-circles of stone rising up from the lowest center, and simple wooden benches set down upon those elevated ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (12) - "And I'm not going to complain," Harry Potter said in an eerily calm voice, "about wizards not having any logic and believing the craziest things. Because I said that to Professor Quirrell once, and he just gave me this look and said that if I ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (11) - "How unfortunate for you, Rufus Scrimgeour," said the Defense Professor. "You have my deepest sympathy." He tilted his head, seeming to study the interrogator; and even within the shadow of the ice-light, the eyes glinted. Padma stared down at her ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (10) - After some further leafing through parchments, carried out in silence, the Auror spoke again. "Born the 26th of September, 1955, to Quondia Quirrell, of an acknowledged tryst with Lirinus Lumblung..." intoned the Auror. "Sorted into Ravenclaw... ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (9) - "Hermione Granger is in trouble," said the old wizard. "The Map is in our dorm," George or Fred said immediately. "Just give us a few minutes to get it and we'll -" The wizard's arms swept them up as if they were hugging-pillows, there was a ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (8) - Albus hesitated, and then nodded reluctantly. "I will speak to you before you go, then." Even as Harry Potter left the room for his own investigations, Severus spun on his heel and strode swiftly toward the jar of Floo powder, his cloak rising ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (7) - "He suspects me?" Severus said, then gave a short laugh. "Why, of course he does." "My own plan," said Harry, "is to go look at the trophy room where the supposed duel took place and see if I can discover anything anomalous. If you can tell the ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (6) - "No, Harry Potter," Albus Dumbledore said heavily. "That is how you wish Lucius Malfoy would think. Lucius Malfoy himself... will not share your desire that he think that way." Harry gazed at the Headmaster, his eyes growing colder, at the same time ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (5) - "I had no choice!" bellowed Dumbledore. The blue eyes were blazing now, beneath the half-moon spectacles. "I do not own it, that thing which Voldemort desires. It belongs to another, and is held here by his consent! I asked if it could be kept in ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (4) - The Potions Master was frowning thoughtfully, eyes intent. "The reaction to a False Memory Charm is hard to predict in advance, Mr. Potter, without Legilimency. The subjects do not always act as expected, when they first remember the false memories. ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 1 (3) - "No," said Harry Potter. "You reached the trophy room and saw Draco unconscious. That is all you observed, Headmaster. You did not observe Hermione there, or watch her leave. Let us distinguish observation from inference." The boy's head turned to ...