# Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality/561004>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 17, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality/561004 "2010-11-17T18:27:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality/561004/101 "2015-03-14T23:57:42Z")

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> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> And… its all over. Very satisfying, although I was kind of expecting one last awesome twist at the end or something. Hermione now being a magical superhero with a bazooka should be pretty cool.

I liked it much better than any of Rowling’s books. But to be fair, she did most of the world-building.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality/561004/102 "2015-03-15T06:56:27Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Completely over. Guaranteed by the author that he will write no sequel.

except that he said he would eventually write an epilogue and maybe some side stories.

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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality/561004/103 "2015-03-21T14:05:13Z")

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I just re-read the whole story, and went through the ending again. Was it obvious to everybody else who “Mr. White” and “Mr. Grim” were? I just now realized that they were Lucius and Sirius; somehow on the first read-through of the last few chapters, I completely missed the part where he explicitly told Draco that “Mr. White” was Lucius.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality/561004/104 "2015-03-22T17:47:03Z")

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> [@Infovore](#):
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> Is anybody else reading this? I’m about 8 chapters in and finding it highly amusing (and probably the most well written Harry Potter fanfic I’ve seen). It’s very long and definitely not for everybody, but if you like HP and think you’d like an alternate-universe fanfic that pokes gentle (and very funny) holes in some of the inconsistencies of the originals, check it out!
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> [Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality](http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality)

Thank you. Thank you.

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