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>been avoiding it because I worried Harry would be a Mary Sue
>pleasantly surprised when Harry turns out to be an actual character, rather than a mouthpiece for the author to point out how Rowling Got It Wrong
>a bit wordy and smart-alec for an 11-year old, but I of all people have no right to complain
>McGonagall, for various reasons, takes Harry to Diagon Alley instead of Hagrid
>People there selling "Knives +3! Forks +2! Spoons with a +4 bonus!"
>nope.avi
Addmittedly, I was looking for the slightest pretext to drop the fic, but that wasn't "slight". Even in DnD, the game mechanics are supposed to be an abstraction of what's actually happening. And then Harry promptly compares it to AD&D. Yes, we get it, thanks. If you're reading a fanfic, there's a pretty good chance you can recognize a DnD reference. What would those utensils do, anyway? Make the food be more nutritious? Wouldn't it make sense, then, for someone to invent utensils that make things less nutritious, so people could lose weight?
>Harry goes to Gringotts
>starts asking questions of Griphook
>thinks about how no one in the WW has ever heard of "arbitrage"
>MFW an 11-year old is using terms most people twice his age don't know
>Harry has a series of snide thoughts about how he or any "competent hedge fundie" could own the WW in a week
Aaaand there it is.
Still, at least the fic makes it clear that Harry is *supposed to be* kind of a self-absorbed, intellectual geek. I'm kinda wondering when they're going to get into the fact that watches work in Hogwarts, yet no one brings, say, a handgun in. (ANSWER: It's a a)British b)children's book series.)
>been avoiding it because I worried Harry would be a Mary Sue
>pleasantly surprised when Harry turns out to be an actual character, rather than a mouthpiece for the author to point out how Rowling Got It Wrong
>a bit wordy and smart-alec for an 11-year old, but I of all people have no right to complain
>McGonagall, for various reasons, takes Harry to Diagon Alley instead of Hagrid
>People there selling "Knives +3! Forks +2! Spoons with a +4 bonus!"
>nope.avi
Addmittedly, I was looking for the slightest pretext to drop the fic, but that wasn't "slight". Even in DnD, the game mechanics are supposed to be an abstraction of what's actually happening. And then Harry promptly compares it to AD&D. Yes, we get it, thanks. If you're reading a fanfic, there's a pretty good chance you can recognize a DnD reference. What would those utensils do, anyway? Make the food be more nutritious? Wouldn't it make sense, then, for someone to invent utensils that make things less nutritious, so people could lose weight?
>Harry goes to Gringotts
>starts asking questions of Griphook
>thinks about how no one in the WW has ever heard of "arbitrage"
>MFW an 11-year old is using terms most people twice his age don't know
>Harry has a series of snide thoughts about how he or any "competent hedge fundie" could own the WW in a week
Aaaand there it is.
Still, at least the fic makes it clear that Harry is *supposed to be* kind of a self-absorbed, intellectual geek. I'm kinda wondering when they're going to get into the fact that watches work in Hogwarts, yet no one brings, say, a handgun in. (ANSWER: It's a a)British b)children's book series.)
