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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (hpmor.com)
4 points by mmh0000 on July 28, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



HPMOR has been submitted to HN a fair number of times over the years -

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

But it hasn't gotten much interest here since March 2015 -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203359


This story has some interesting ideas, but suffers greatly from being a Mary Sue[1] fanfic; the protagonist is a vastly overpowered author self-insert.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue


The real Mary Sue in this story is Hermione. Harry actually has massive problems that he doesn't recognize until after the story ends. Also, the primary antagonist have been massively buffed to compensate for the improvements to Harry.




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