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We Want MoR – The One with Eliezer Yudkowsky

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The Greatest Literary Flaw in the Book

The grand climax of the story is Harry solving what I would later call a level two intelligent character puzzle, which is sort of like a munchkin puzzle. And that was an example of a flaw that just could not be fixed because of the number of open parentheses that had been set up in the amount of foreshadowing done going literally back to the first sentence and that's exact solution. The physical vibe of all of the Azkaban scenes that it felt very dungeons and dragons, but for some reason, it really worked for me.

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