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We Want MoR – The One with Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Is She a Mary Sue?

Brian actually got a major in English before switching to a real job and doing software development. So what does that mean to you when you say she's a Mary Sue? I mean that she just strides into Hogwarts, does better than Harry the protagonist in all of his classes, gets into a sort of romance with the main character even. Just gently walks all over everything. And then by the end of the story she's come back from the dead and has teeth made of pearly white unicorn horn. And is secretly the grand anise of Professor McGonagall.

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