How many of us thought the staircases in the Harry Potter books rotate, sometimes even when you are on them.
Like Magneto’s helmet, that was a movie thing. In fact, only a movie thing.
The staircases in Hogwarts take you to different locations on different days, but magically. It is not very deeply explored in the books how they do that. Even Dumbledore comments that he does not have Hogwarts fully mapped out and there are secrets he does not know(this turns out to be true when they find a room Dumbledore didn’t know about).
Hogwarts Legacy, a video game with a fully explorable Hogwarts, does not have moving staircases because they licensed the books, not the movie.
I mean the purpose/use of his helmet. In the movie, it blocks Charles mind-control and reading. In the comics, I think he just wears it because…supervillain.
I actually keep small three ring binders from my trips, and while they don’t have the actual route taken, they have the hotels, and I just use GPS to navigate. And I can look at my pictures from the previous trips. So I should be able to recreate the routes. When I get back, I will see if you are right, or if I switched universes. If so, probably happened in Texas.
I mean, to be fair, the staircases moving is a fairly simple and obvious interpretation of how they take you to different locations on different days. It could be through magical spacetime warps… or they could just move.
Have I missed it? Every discussion of the Mandela Effect seems to gloss over a crucial issue:
Okay, say that I’ve identified that I’m from Mandela Delta (my favorite timeline, by the way), and stuck in Mandela Prime (aka The Berenstain Dimension)…
Me and my father both swear when we first watched The Godfather Part 2 on VHS the famous scene where an important character dies in a fishing accident, he’s blown up in his boat with a bomb in his tackle box.
It wasn’t until we got the DVD suddenly it was simply him being shot by someone else on the boat.
But we BOTH remembered seeing the VHS and the boat exploding.
I’m no kind of writer, but if some Doper who is manages to run with this idea, and it were to be published in Analog or whatever sci-fi magazine is still around, it would be cool to have the title be The Mandela Effect. Even more cool would be if an arrangement were made with the editor to have that title on the first page, with subsequent pages bearing the title as The Biko Effect.
