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dear_mun2013-05-18 01:05 pm
rationality) wrote in dear_mun2013-05-18 01:05 pm
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incapable of watching the fourth movie in peace.
Hold on a minute. Yes, I can see that you're enjoying your hypothetical situation, it's just that there isn't much point, is there? It's wrong. You know just as well as I do that none of that would happen to me, because unlike in the root-universe, no one in my branch-universe is that stupid.
Let's look at this and just destroy any possibility of it ever happening, okay? So, I'm supposed to compete in the Triwizard Tournament - some kind of incredibly dangerous and life-threatening contest to show up two other schools, which is the dumbest reason I've ever heard to make a bunch of students fight dragons - because the magical name-choosing device pulled my name out in addition to the maximum limit of three competitors. Apparently, that's good enough for the root-universe, but there are a whole lot of things wrong with that when you try to apply it to mine.
1. Dumbledore might be insane, but I'm pretty sure he'd have better safety precautions than that. So that, you know, not just anyone could come along and cast a spell on the magical randomiser. Especially in a situation where everyone is fully aware that You-Know-Who isn't dead, and most likely has followers doing their jobs and trying to get me killed. Or whatever the plan is.
2. I don't know if it got through the first time, but nobody is that stupid. The magical randomiser breaks its own rules, and the name it spits out just happens to be the famous Harry Potter? Do I even need to say "Bayes' Theorem"? Look, wizards might be amazingly ignorant about some things, but there is no conceivable way that everyone would just say, "Well, we'd better go right ahead and enter Harry Potter as the underage fourth competitor, there's nothing remotely suspicious about this turn of events!" ... Right? I mean - seriously? Just because the magic cup says so, you'd better do it? Excuse me, but we do all have free will and at least the majority of us have brains. Please use them accordingly.
3. I'd say no. I have much more important things to do than compete in an event that was probably designed by Gryffindors for other Gryffindors. There's no possible way that they could force me into doing it. I've threatened to walk out on the school for Professor Snape being a bully, you think I'd be talked into this? No, thank you. If I want honour and glory, I'll lead the Chaos Legion to victory in the mock battles (which I am going to do) and prove myself that way.
Besides, even if I did want to enter the Tournament (speaking on a purely hypothetical level, because I can't think of a single reason why I would), do you think Professor Quirrell would actually let that happen? I don't think he'd be thrilled about the possibility of losing his student to a dragon just because a magic cup and tradition demanded it.
Not that I'd die, if I did compete. Of course I'd win, especially if I was a Fourth Year.
... Uh, feel free to go back to your hypothetical situation now, if you want. You just might need a better reason than, "A magical cup told me to."
Let's look at this and just destroy any possibility of it ever happening, okay? So, I'm supposed to compete in the Triwizard Tournament - some kind of incredibly dangerous and life-threatening contest to show up two other schools, which is the dumbest reason I've ever heard to make a bunch of students fight dragons - because the magical name-choosing device pulled my name out in addition to the maximum limit of three competitors. Apparently, that's good enough for the root-universe, but there are a whole lot of things wrong with that when you try to apply it to mine.
1. Dumbledore might be insane, but I'm pretty sure he'd have better safety precautions than that. So that, you know, not just anyone could come along and cast a spell on the magical randomiser. Especially in a situation where everyone is fully aware that You-Know-Who isn't dead, and most likely has followers doing their jobs and trying to get me killed. Or whatever the plan is.
2. I don't know if it got through the first time, but nobody is that stupid. The magical randomiser breaks its own rules, and the name it spits out just happens to be the famous Harry Potter? Do I even need to say "Bayes' Theorem"? Look, wizards might be amazingly ignorant about some things, but there is no conceivable way that everyone would just say, "Well, we'd better go right ahead and enter Harry Potter as the underage fourth competitor, there's nothing remotely suspicious about this turn of events!" ... Right? I mean - seriously? Just because the magic cup says so, you'd better do it? Excuse me, but we do all have free will and at least the majority of us have brains. Please use them accordingly.
3. I'd say no. I have much more important things to do than compete in an event that was probably designed by Gryffindors for other Gryffindors. There's no possible way that they could force me into doing it. I've threatened to walk out on the school for Professor Snape being a bully, you think I'd be talked into this? No, thank you. If I want honour and glory, I'll lead the Chaos Legion to victory in the mock battles (which I am going to do) and prove myself that way.
Besides, even if I did want to enter the Tournament (speaking on a purely hypothetical level, because I can't think of a single reason why I would), do you think Professor Quirrell would actually let that happen? I don't think he'd be thrilled about the possibility of losing his student to a dragon just because a magic cup and tradition demanded it.
Not that I'd die, if I did compete. Of course I'd win, especially if I was a Fourth Year.
... Uh, feel free to go back to your hypothetical situation now, if you want. You just might need a better reason than, "A magical cup told me to."