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Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 83: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 1 - Chapter 83: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 1 When Padma entered the Transfiguration classroom, she saw that half the class had beaten her there, a strange, deathly silence pervading the room. Harry Potter sat alone in one corner, staring off into ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final (6) - You knew that, and you still said what you did to Dumbledore. You deliberately tried to hurt Dumbledore's feelings. He's never tried to hurt you, Harry Potter, not once. Harry's head dropped into his hands. Why had Harry said what he'd said, to a ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final (5) - Harry stared at the wizard for another second, and then Harry turned and marched out of the black room, down the stairs, through the office - "I really don't know why you're still on his shoulder," Harry said to Fawkes. - out the oaken door and into ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final (4) - "And is it true?" Harry said. There was a buzzing sensation filling him, his body growing more distant. "What Draco said, that Narcissa Malfoy never got her hands dirty, that she was only Lucius's wife? She was an enabler, I get that, but I can't ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final (3) - "He is all that I have!" wept a voice, very strange was Dumbledore's voice as Dumbledore himself remembered it, from the inside it seemed far less stern and wise. "The last of my family! All that I have left!" No emotion had been allowed to pass ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final (2) - "Yes," Harry said, "I flinched away from the pain of losing all the money in my vault. But I did it! That's what counts! And you -" The indignation that had faltered out of Harry's voice returned. "You actually put a price on Hermione Granger's ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final (1) - Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final Phoenix travel was a sensation entirely unlike Apparition or portkeys. You caught on fire - you definitely felt yourself catching on fire, even though there was no pain - and instead of burning to ashes, the ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (8) - (Why not? Why, indeed, would wizards with enough status and wealth to turn their hands to almost any endeavor, choose to spend their lives fighting over lucrative monopolies on ink importation? The Headmaster of Hogwarts would hardly see the ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (7) - Harry turned his back on the empty void, and looked up at where the toad-woman stood. She was pale beneath the pink makeup, her mouth opening and closing like a fish. "I make you this one offer," said the Boy-Who-Lived. "I never learn that you've ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (6) - Whatever Lucius was about to say in reply was silenced by a tap of the short rod in Dumbledore's hand. "Ahem!" said the old wizard from his podium of dark stone. "This session has carried on quite considerably, and if it is not dismissed soon, some ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (5) - It took a moment, but Harry ran after; though it took him longer to reach the bottom, after Professor McGonagall vaulted half the stairs with a strange catlike motion and landed with the astonished-looking Auror trio already pointing their wands at ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (4) - "It comes due when you graduate Hogwarts," the old wizard said from high above. "But Lord Malfoy has certain rights over you before then, I fear." Lucius Malfoy stood motionless, frowning down at Harry. "Who is she to you, then? What is she to you, ...

Today`s fragment to read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Part 3 (3) - The fiery bird on the old wizard's shoulder didn't scream. Maybe the Wizengamot had demanded that a spell of silence be put on the creature, otherwise it probably would have been screaming the whole time. But Fawkes hit his master, one golden wing ...

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 ...