/lit/ - Literature

Is this /lit/? By the way I'm legitimately asking. What do you fags think about it?

Who else here has read HPMOR? I really liked the parts where Harry posts his ideas on wizardry on r/hogwarts and gets a lot of pretty epic karma.

what are the essential fedorature readings?

Speaking of Harry Potter

What does /lit/ think of this?

>>9007242
>"There was a Muggle once named Mohandas Gandhi," Harry said to the floor. "He thought the government of Muggle Britain shouldn't rule over his country. And he refused to fight. He convinced his whole country not to fight. Instead he told his people to walk up to the British soldiers and let themselves be struck down, without resisting, and when Britain couldn't stand doing that any more, we freed his country. I thought it was a very beautiful thing, when I read about it, I thought it was something higher than all the wars that anyone had ever fought with guns or swords. That they'd really done that, and that it had _actually worked."_ Harry drew another breath. "Only then I found out that Gandhi told his people, during World War II, that if the Nazis invaded they should use nonviolent resistance against them, too. But the Nazis would've just shot everyone in sight. And maybe Winston Churchill always felt that there should've been a better way, some clever way to win without having to hurt anyone; but he never found it, and so he had to fight." Harry looked up at the Headmaster, who was staring at him. "Winston Churchill was the one who tried to convince the British government not to give Czechoslovakia to Hitler in exchange for a peace treaty, that they should fight right away -"
>"I recognize the name, Harry," said Dumbledore. The old wizard's lips twitched upward. "Although honesty compels me to say that dear Winston was never one for pangs of conscience, even after a dozen shots of Firewhiskey."
>"The point is," Harry said, after a brief pause to remember exactly who he was talking to, and fight down the suddenly returning sense that he was an ignorant child gone insane with audacity who had no right to be in this room and no right to question Albus Dumbledore about anything, "the point is, saying violence is evil isn't an answer. It doesn't say when to fight and when not to fight. It's a hard question and Gandhi refused to deal with it, and that's why I lost some of my respect for him."

>>.9007242
>"There was a Muggle once named Mohandas Gandhi," Harry said to the floor. "He thought the government of Muggle Britain shouldn't rule over his country. And he refused to fight. He convinced his whole country not to fight. Instead he told his people to walk up to the British soldiers and let themselves be struck down, without resisting, and when Britain couldn't stand doing that any more, we freed his country. I thought it was a very beautiful thing, when I read about it, I thought it was something higher than all the wars that anyone had ever fought with guns or swords. That they'd really done that, and that it had _actually worked."_ Harry drew another breath. "Only then I found out that Gandhi told his people, during World War II, that if the Nazis invaded they should use nonviolent resistance against them, too. But the Nazis would've just shot everyone in sight. And maybe Winston Churchill always felt that there should've been a better way, some clever way to win without having to hurt anyone; but he never found it, and so he had to fight." Harry looked up at the Headmaster, who was staring at him. "Winston Churchill was the one who tried to convince the British government not to give Czechoslovakia to Hitler in exchange for a peace treaty, that they should fight right away -"
>"I recognize the name, Harry," said Dumbledore. The old wizard's lips twitched upward. "Although honesty compels me to say that dear Winston was never one for pangs of conscience, even after a dozen shots of Firewhiskey."
>"The point is," Harry said, after a brief pause to remember exactly who he was talking to, and fight down the suddenly returning sense that he was an ignorant child gone insane with audacity who had no right to be in this room and no right to question Albus Dumbledore about anything, "the point is, saying violence is evil isn't an answer. It doesn't say when to fight and when not to fight. It's a hard question and Gandhi refused to deal with it, and that's why I lost some of my respect for him."

>>7840893
>>7840940
Harry being raised by rational parents instead of the shitty abusive people who lock him in up bellow a staircase with the sole company of spiders and dust in the original series completely changes Harry's personality, world view and mindset.

This completely different protagonist change the way the story goes in amusing ways. For example, instead of getting butthurt at Draco Malfoy's smugness and sadistic tendencies, he goes the rational way of making an ally out of him, since he's the son of the extremely intelligent, powerful and influent Lucius Malfoy.

He actually end up making an ally out of everyone that seems powerful enough to be an important piece in the future of his world domination plan. Sometimes it's very hard and take some clever political meddling.

It's the Harry Potter series with a machiavellian mastermind smart enough to exploit seemingly harmless magical items and to mix them with ordinary science.

It's the kind of character that if put into Jesus's place, would wonder if he could kill people by turning their watery bodily contents into wine as soon as he learned that he could change water into it.

Obviously as Mary Sue as a Mary Sue could be, but Draco and Dumbledore and some other people are also overpower as fuck for it to be fun and genuinely interesting.

Most people agree that it starts to pick up after chapter 5, and that if you aren't hooked by the time you reach chapter 10, just put it away.

The chapter are very short, so reaching chapter 10 wouldn't take you more time than browsing some stupid 4chan threads.

Oh, maybe this will interest you:

The author slams Rony mercilessy hard, making the idea that he could become an important character in that book, as say, even as one of Harry's closest friends, seems ridiculous. A LOT of retarded HP fans got extremely butthurt at that, but could really rationaly argue against that, forcing them to realize that Rony and a lot of Rowlings other characters and rules were shitty to the extreme.

It's a book as amusing to an open minded HP fan as it is to a passionate hater.

Check this shit out already then tell me if I was lying. It's so underrated it's sad.

Pic related best Harry Potter book

this is why hpmor is better than the original series.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

It's extremely popular, but chances are you dislike it.

What are its flaws and can you use appropriate passages to demonstrate them?