Status Updates From Harry Potter and the Method...

A brilliant idea of the parallel universe! Liking it so far..

There were parts of Harry's borrowed books about that, how even people who were paralyzed in car accidents weren't nearly as unhappy as they'd expected to be, six months later, just like lottery winners weren't nearly as happy as they'd expected. People adjusted, their happiness levels went back to their happiness set point, life went on.

Magic's attitude toward laws like Conservation of Energy was somewhere between a giant extended middle finger, and a shrug of total indifference.

Minerva firmly believed that you only ought to worry about Time if you were a clock.

Everyone was competing to see who could be most angry, and nobody would've been allowed to suggest that anyone was being too angr. He'd been struck, even then, by an essential emptiness in the indignation of politicians - though he hadn't had the words to describe it, at that age - a sense that they were trying to score cheap points by hitting at the same safe target as everyone else.

Very intriguing

Very intriguing

Tom Smith And His Incredible Bread Machine.

The rule of law, in complex times, has proved itself deficient; we much prefer the rule of men, it's vastly more efficient.

Harry wondered if he might just be procrastinating, if his mind had just found a clever excuse to put off something unenjoyable-but-necessary.

He actually thought that.

And then Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres decided that he'd just talk to Draco Malfoy the next morning instead, after Sunday breakfast, and then talk to Hermione.

Human beings did that sort of thing all the time.

"Yeah, well," said a sixth-year Ravenclaw boy, "I think after she kisses you to bring you out of Dementation and you stick forty-four bullies to the ceiling for her, we've gone way past 'she's not my girlfriend, really' and into the question of what your kids will be like." 🤣

Even if it's sad, I think that's part of the environment that creates what Dumbledore calls a hero - people who don't have anyone else to shove final responsibility onto, and that's why they form the mental habit of tracking everything themselves.

The first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

"Most people are afraid, Miss Granger," said the old wizard. "They live their whole lives circumscribed by crippling fear that cuts off everything they might accomplish, everything they might become. Fear of saying or doing the wrong thing, fear of losing their mere possessions, fear of death, and above all the fear of what other people will think of them."

Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you've seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up. Or they don't have a phoenix themselves, so their political instinct tells them there's no advantage to be gained from saying nice things about phoenixes.

"Sometimes we forget the most basic things, since it has been too long since we learned them. I realized I had done the same with my own lesson plan. You do not teach students to throw until you have taught them to fall. And I must not teach you to fight if you do not understand how to lose."

Все круто. Але є одне АЛЕ - 2437 сторінок ПДФ-ки! Я не готовий витрачати стільки часу на цю книжку. Почитав, оцінив, зважив пріоритети, пішов далі. Всім па)

"When we are young we believe that we know everything, and so we believe that if we see no explanation for something, then no explanation exists. When we are older we realise that the whole universe works by a rhythm and a reason, even if we ourselves do not know it. It is only our own ignorance which appears to us as insanity

I would not wish to die before my friends, nor live on after they had all gone. The hardest time is when those you loved the most have gone on before you, and yet others still live, for whose sake you must stay.

"You don't have the tiniest idea. You think she reads a lot of books and it's cute, right? You see a perfect report card and you think it's good that she's doing well in class. Your daughter is the most talented witch of her generation and the brightest star of Hogwarts, and someday, Dr. and Dr. Granger, the fact that you were her parents will be the only reason that history remembers you!"

Це геніально. Це весело. Це цікаво.

Те, як Гаррі пояснив нелогічність квідича, і свою майбутню позицію, це смалець на свіжому кусні хлібу 😁 Про грошову систему Грінготса теж круто 😀

"So replan! Don't let your life be steered by your reluctance to do a little extra thinking. You know that."

"Science fiction and fantasy were sort of my fifth parent, really. They taught me to forgive. I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head. Somewhere there was someone like Lesath, I expect, though I couldn't say who. It wasn't hard to put myself in his shoes. And it was my books that told me what to do about it, too. The good guys forgive."

"It seemed that last night after dinner, a girl had flown around on a broomstick for thirty minutes and then caught some sort of giant mosquito."

"Muggle researchers have found that people are always very optimistic, compared to reality...reality usually delivers results a little worse than the 'worst-case scenario'. It's called the planning fallacy, and the best way to fix it is to ask how long things took the last time you tried them...but when you're doing something new...you just have to be really, really, really pessimistic."

Dumbledore's hand dipped into a pocket, and then the same hand sifted through the ashes and turned up a small yellowish egg. "Look, here's an egg!"

"Oh... wow... amazing..."

Harry and Hermione sitting in a tree k i s s i n g! First comes love then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage!

Harry Potter such a crybaby!

Oh, that sneaky Harry Potter!

That's pretty fucking ingenious!

Backfire! Bang! Bang! Bang!