Like FF.Net, it has a no-highlight script. I recommend either going onto Pottermore yourself -- worth it for the artwork alone -- or waiting for someone to either get around the script or write the whole thing out longhand.

 

There's a few scripts to remove no-highlight from FF.Net, like this one.

fanfictiontools.user.js

(Note it does other stuff).

 

Portions of the Pottermore text are rendered as pictures, the rest in words. When I transcribe, I typically print-to-PDF and grab the text, then retype the sections that didn't transfer. It's usually a couple paragraphs in the middle.

 

Mmm, I read that post wrong, I thought it said it was on FF.Net as well as Pottermore, so my post isn't actually that useful lol.

 

That writing about Pensieves:

Illness and Disability:

Btw, it is easy to copy text. I did it without any scipts and programs. I just copy-pasted it directly from source code.

 

EDIT: Dammit, Ninja'd.

Nevermind. Found it in image form.

And hey, we now know the name of Luna's mom, Pandora!

 

I should add it to my list of things I completely missed in HP until much, much later.

 

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Fucking Rowling.

 

Why are you pissed off by that?

 

How exactly is it surprising though? Magic casually and repeatedly bends physics over and does horrible, horrible things to it. Even if it was part of nature, it clearly over-rides physical laws and is not bound by them in anyway shape or form. Electromagnetism, including the Light Spectrum, and Gravity both seem to be completely subservient to Magic. Einstein's Relativity, Newton's Laws, hell even Quantum Mechanics most likely provide nothing but a baseline for Magic to manipulate as it sees fit. It's possible that magic interacts with what we call Quantum Physics, but whether this is a co-existent interaction or simply Magic over-riding and re-directing Quantum Mechanics as necessary, who knows.

Rowling hasn't said or stated anything that wasn't already patently obvious to anyone willing to see it. She merely stated the completely obvious, and made it canon.

 

Have you not seen my lengthy diatribes on how strongly I believe that magic and science should be compatible? I know I've posted many, and it isn't exactly a secret that I believe that. I've been (rightly) ridiculed for some of my ideas (I mean, a dragon breaths fire because they have gasoline inside of them? What the fuck was I thinking when I suggested that?), but I still believe that magic shouldn't be a realm completely beyond science, a notion that JKR has just shat all over. Fucking Rowling...

That's one piece of Pottermore that I'll be ignoring while writing my fic, incidentally, because fuck that noise.

 

I actually automatically assumed that magic was just that, magic, with no real connection to anything we know. It can do things just because, magic.

Laughed so hard at why dragons breathe fire though.

 

People trying to fit magic into science is becoming a big problem in fiction.

 

Why put such limitations on an unlimited fictional concept

 

How very Dawkins of you.

 

Because having it be unlimited is highly unrealistic and (more importantly) boring.

The real issue, for me, is that if magic were unlimited, wizards would be completely dominant over muggles. That concept is actually revolting to me on a moral level, and so I would happily rip apart magic until the two sides were equal. That's just how it has to be for me.

Maybe some of you like the concept of wizards being physical gods. I don't. Not at all. Powerful and awesome, yes; godlike, no thank you. There have to be reasonable limits set, and science provides an excellent set of limits. Finding out just how magic and science fit together is actually quite fun for me, too, which is just icing on the cake. It's challenging, and concession have to be made, but I like it. Perhaps it's just me, though.

Anyway, I believe we've strayed a bit off topic. Perhaps we should relocate this talk to another time or place.

 

Kinda stop reading here. Magic. Unrealistic. Really?


True having limitless power could be boring, but that's the potential of magic really.

 

If you want realism don't read fantasy novels. Also the wizards in HP were not better than muggles. On the contrary they went into hiding because they feared them. Why else would they go so far to make sure muggles had no knowledge of them?

 

There are gradients of realism. All fiction is unrealistic to some degree, even if it's only to the point that it's unrealistic because it didn't actually happen. There come a point, however, where something is just too unrealistic, too outside the bounds of what is possible, for me to have willing suspension of disbelief. That is what I was referring to.

As an example of where magic becomes too overpowered, take Joe's Hero Trilogy. It's a wonderfully written series, and there's one particular chapter in the last story that I absolutely love because of how it messes with the format in a fourth-wall breaking moment, but I can't take the last two stories seriously because of how ludicrously overpowered magic is in it. The first story in the trilogy, on the other hand, I still enjoy, primarily because it was a more typical Harry Potter story.

 

What, so that way Muggles can somehow use or over ride Magic with technology?

Get back to me when we can turn off Gravity.

Think of it as instead of battery, but as conductors. Iron, Copper, Silver and (thereoretical)Graphene Superconductors. I almost delved deeper into this but then I saw....

Really? :facepalm

So basically you are one of those people who were all "Muggle Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" in the face of everything? One of those people who think that a couple dozen advanced spells from being fully rested should "drain" a magical of their "stamina or mana pool"? One of those ridiculous assholes. To be clear, this is a notable weakness in Mizuni-Sama's long running story. One of the only ones actually.

You probably think it is morally repugnant that the West holds such a gigantic advantage in terms of hard, raw military power over the rest of the world. Yeah. You probably look at Might Makes Right, and think that is what the Nazis were all about and completely fail to grasp Adult concepts such as how governments are able to form in the first place.

I got some news for you, and shit heads like you. Might Makes Right, is literally the basis for every relevant legal system ever devised. And by relevant, I mean enforced. It's in the word, "enforced". "Force". As in, the Police and Army do not ask nicely that you obey the Laws.

You do so, and they whoop your stupid ass.

Might Makes Right, is, quite literally, what allows civilization to work. Because the Central Government, with its Law Enforcement and Armed Forces, put boot to ass on criminals, enough so, that the vast majority of people obey the LAW.

EDIT:And I can't give thumbs up to so many people in this thread.