
Methods of Rationality caused uproar in the fan fiction community, drawing both condemnations and praise on Harry Potter message boards like DarkLordPotter for its blasphemous-or brilliants-treatment of the canon.

Three thousand years of resolving big complicated things into smaller pieces, discovering that the music of the planets was the same tune as a falling apple, finding that the true laws were perfectly universal and had no exceptions anywhere and took the form of simple math governing the smallest parts, not to mention that the mind was the brain and the brain was made of neurons, a brain was what a person was -Īnd then a woman turned into a cat, so much for all that.

(It said almost everything you needed to know about Hermione Granger that she had never let that stop her, or even let it interfere with her love of being tested.The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet the whole notion of physics. She really wished she wouldn’t have felt that way, the boy wasn’t a teacher, but it was still a test and she’d gotten a question wrong and that always felt like a little punch in the stomach. “My answer is that the robes are Charmed to keep themselves clean.” “Not quite,” said the boy. And she supposed she could probably skip Step 4, about the cardboard poster. Well, Step 3 was measuring the results, but in this case, that was just seeing that the stain had vanished. Hermione let out a sigh of relief, not least because this meant she wasn’t dealing with all of the Dark Lord’s magical power. Then she stared at it, trying to remember how long the original fluid had taken to disappear… And the green stain vanished! “All right,” Hermione said, “since you say so,” and she rather gingerly poured a bit of green pop onto a corner of the boy’s robes. Hermione looked at his trunk, which, she was beginning to suspect, was rather more special than her own. Harry Potter And The Methods of Rationality
