(February 8, 2016 at 9:42 am)Alex K Wrote:

(February 7, 2016 at 9:51 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Consider the following: 

Wow! Give me that old time religionphysics. I'm trying to figure out what it is this guy is doing there. It looks like he's calculating a particle scattering amplitude or similar quantity in quantum electrodynamics in a rather old-fashioned and terrifying looking perturbation theory formalism. On the left in the middle I can make out a sketch of the complex plane with poles and the dashed line as an integration contour, which probably specify the analytic structure of a particle propagator or similar thing. The imaginary parts of the poles are denoted by an upper case Gamma, which seems to indicate that we are dealing with an unstable particle, but that seems strange in this context and is probably just old formalism. Since the matrix element he's calculating is of two fermions , and the operator in the middle is called H_gamma, it's probably something like the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron or just generally the emission and absorption of a photon, or a similar quantity.

Maybe if I sleep on this for a couple of days it will dawn on me.

Meanwhile, don't ask me anything about English literature because I will tell you that the deconstructive epistemology of post-modern discourse is evident within the alterity of obfuscated textualities.

I really wished Harry got to move in with Sirius Black after book 3 and was pretty dissapointed that it never happened

(February 8, 2016 at 10:16 am)abaris Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 8:18 am)Mancunian Wrote: True Christian you are an atheist just having a laugh right? if you really are Christian please don't procreate.

Why do you try to analyze a troll? It is whatever rocks it's boat at the moment.

Troll? Now, that's an upgrade.

(February 8, 2016 at 12:33 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: I really wished Harry got to move in with Sirius Black after book 3 and was pretty dissapointed that it never happened

He couldn't. Every visit to the Dursley's reinforced the maternal magic that helped protect him.

(February 8, 2016 at 1:19 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 12:33 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: I really wished Harry got to move in with Sirius Black after book 3 and was pretty dissapointed that it never happened

He couldn't. Every visit to the Dursley's reinforced the maternal magic that helped protect him.

Not only that, but Sirius was a convict on the run and hated Grimmauld Place; he seemed to only move there in order to make it HQ of the Order of the Phoenix in book 5. I can hardly imagine him moving there just so Harry could come live with him - he's got seriously bad memories associated with that house and his family.

So for the whole of book 4 Sirius was "on the run" in Europe or living in that cave near Hogwarts as Snuffles.

Where was he supposed to take Harry over the summer if Harry went to live with him?

His alter ego was a big dog, so he might have taken Harry to Shag-ri-la?

(February 8, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: His alter ego was a big dog, so he might have taken Harry to Shag-ri-la?

I would think that would have a different connotation in the UK...

Honestly, I am such a huge fan of HP. I feel like people who have not read the books are just missing out hugely. I know the OP is just trolling, but as Gawdzilla says, there are people who actually take this position. JK herself said that it mostly upsets her because she hates to think people try to limit a child's imagination that way. I agree. These books allow kids to really open up new worlds! Not just playing witch or wizard, but all of the fantastical things that exist! My kid's favorite part of the HP univers is the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them". She is constantly telling me odd facts, like how snitches exist because of a bird called a snidget, that wizards hunted almost to extinction, or about some monster that looks like a cloak and suffocates people, and other things I've never even heard of. She draws how she thinks these creatures would look, since the book lacks illustrations. Imagination is such a wonderful thing for a child! (And for adults, too).

(February 8, 2016 at 4:14 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: His alter ego was a big dog, so he might have taken Harry to Shag-ri-la?

I would think that would have a different connotation in the UK...

Not sure if that was a typo...
Shangri-La

(February 8, 2016 at 12:08 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 11:02 am)pocaracas Wrote: That was karma.  

No kidding - I don't think many people realize just how abused Harry was by the Dursleys because they're couched in so much humor and are the butts of so many gags. They were horrible people to him.

But Harry at least came out of all that as a strong person thanks to his superhuman skills, just imagine how they have ruined their own son!