April Fools - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Joke Chapter

I will decide what to do with the joke website/domain tomorrow morning. Doing anything with the actual joke text would require approval from the other authors.

Personally (as in not at all representing everyone responsible - as in this is my own opinion, and I'm not speaking for shockwave or anyone else) I sort of feel like rationalist/ even more general HJPEV admirers should be able to notice the confusion** they have upon finding the joke, and then think it through by themselves. If there was ever an audience who would be well served by and able to appreciate a friendly reminder to apply critical thinking to their everyday lives, wouldn't it be this one? I kind of hope so.

Also, I find the (overwhelmingly positive) responses this has been getting to be fantastically enjoyable to read.

Anyway, most likely we will at least put up some kind of warning on the places where people are finding the joke URL. This should give people with language differences, or barriers of any kind, a fair chance.

**such as the writing style being off, the content somewhat absurd, the URL being different, the chapter not being due for a few more days, the page behaving differently, the real chapter not existing on fanfiction.net, being unable to leave a review of the chapter, the April fools message at the bottom, the lack of any authors notes, the absence of a new chapter alert email (or on the rss feed, twitter) and the lack of a matching post on the new hpmor website the fic has moved too.

Believe it or not, Harry is only allowed to draw on around half of the easier Sequences – if he knew all of them, he would be too powerful a character and break the story.

Which are these ultra-powerful sequences Eliezer is referring to?

The story will next update on Tuesday, April 3rd, at 7PM Pacific Time.

I knew something was wrong when this was posted...

I think that by this time, it's April 2nd on the whole globe, with the possible exception of Hawaii and Alaska, which don't count, being fictional places.

As such, shouldn't the chapter be removed or atleast heavily titled "April Fool's Chapter" or something, so that it doesn't actually fool anyone beyond April 1st?

I think this is an amazing and timely contribution, too bad I have but one upvote per comment.

I would like to Strongly Urge everyone to move to another thread before the next chapter is posted, to avoid the confusion of two different chapters being discussed in the same thread.

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I totally called it! It was fairly bad quality though, I wonder if someone else submitted it to Eliezer ahead of time?

Does anyone have a copy for posterity?

Harry had lost all his allies

This surprised me, and (among other things) tipped me off that this was fake. Related thought, what would be the real impact of an accusation that Harry was/contained Voldemort? I imagine a lot of people would discount it coming from professor Quirrel, and it might gain him allies among the ex-death-eaters.

So, this isn't going to be the actual new thread, right?

I'm not on facebook. Is there a link to the April Fools story somewhere?

In all seriousness though, should we take this

The Defense Professor - Hat-and-Cloak, Quirrell, Voldemort - raised his wand

As Word of God that Quirrell is H&C? Or just a trick within a trick?

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