Questions About Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Goodreads Author)

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Are new chapters still being added to this book or has it concluded?

Summer Waters The series has concluded. It ended yesterday on March 14th with 122 chapters in all! :)

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How many of the real HP books should one read before starting on this one?

Eva If you plan to read the Harry Potter series eventually anyway, you should read all of it before reading HPMoR, because HPMoR contains multiple spoiler…moreIf you plan to read the Harry Potter series eventually anyway, you should read all of it before reading HPMoR, because HPMoR contains multiple spoilers for the original series (even though things happen differently, most story and world conditions remain in place, and many surprises are revealed much earlier in HPMoR than in the original). I had read books 1-4 years ago, started reading HPMoR, realized I was getting some content ahead of where I'd reached in the original, went back and reread the first five and then picked up HPMoR again, reading them in parallel for a while, which was fun, but then I realized I was getting spoilers again, so I finished books 5-7 before continuing and finishing HPMoR. So. Since things are out of order and it's not really possible to stay completely ahead of spoilers otherwise, I'd recommend reading the whole series first.

If you don't plan to read the original, you can understand most of HPMoR having only read part of the series, but why put yourself at that disadvantage? HPMoR can often be a challenging read, leaving the reader to exercise their own rationality to figure out why something would or wouldn't work, what options are available that Harry or another character should use, or what's really going on. Or--to recognize a joke.

Besides, the books are enjoyable and highly influential. They've shaped the thinking of a generation. So it's good to know what it's all about.(less)

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Is there any romantic (sub)plot going on?

ZeitPolizei

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Not one for Fanfiction, but this look rather interesting and would like to read it, is there anyway that I can download this into a PDF file or some other type of readable file...so that I can read it on the go?

ZeitPolizei On the official site, hpmor.com, there are download links for PDF, Epub and Mobi.

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Is this like the fanfics on Wattpad and Fanfiction.net?

Crow Inkorporated oh, definitely not. romance is kept very much to the side, almost jokingly, there's incredibly good grammar and there's no curses or anything.…moreoh, definitely not. romance is kept very much to the side, almost jokingly, there's incredibly good grammar and there's no curses or anything.(less)

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