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Q: Cartoon series from the 90's with a Star Wars feel and a toy that allwoed you to 'take part' in the fight on screen

SavaI watched a few episodes of this series in the 90's or 2000's, I'm in France so I'm quite certain the series aired earlier on US channels. The main character was some sort of ship captain battling against some villain on a mostly destroyed planet. I remember the fighting scenes on screen being ...

 
 
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3:06 AM
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Q: Trying to find a book about alien symbiot in a fantasy setting.

lyrelyreTrying to find a book about alien symbiot in a fantasy setting. I think it was a young adult book, but Im not sure. People had found these aliens that they first bonded with native life and then bonded the resulting crystals to themselves giving them elementally themed powers. There were lab f...

 
3:21 AM
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Q: probably a low budget vampire movie from mid 1990s to early 2000s or earlier that involes a tiger and pie

thecouchgenie I remember very little about this movie, but I saw it along time ago so I know it is at least older than me. The main character is some random nerd guy who gets picked on by some other blonde guy in a Hawaiian shirt, I THINK. The main character was at a diner When he got a pie thrown in his face ...

 
 
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7:33 AM
@Marvin Harry. Was. Not. A. Horcrux.
 
 
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11:10 AM
@Mithrandir someone should write a bot reading the title of the question you're currently writing, and if there are both "Harry" and "Horcrux" in it you get a pop-up with a mad Mith shouting "HARRY WASNT A HORCRUX!!" :P
 
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Q: How did Surtur learn that Odin was not on Asgard?

Newt ScamanderIt was Loki who moved Odin out of Asgard. He was clever enough that no Asgardian but him knew. Even Thor learned the fact from Surtur. How did Surtur learn this fact?

 
11:45 AM
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Q: How is Marsh still alive?

AnthelothIn the second Mistborn series, Marsh, aka Ironeyes, is still alive. But it explicitly states in the first series that Inquisitors do die of old age. So how is he still alive?

 
 
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1:33 PM
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Q: 1970 sci fi stories series spaceman looking for the group that modified him e

Kevin G KochSpaceman modified by a group that throw him out of the program before the final stage. He was a thief, soldier. He needs metal in his diet. When he is near a fully modified man he gets a speed and power boost.

 
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Q: How Grindelwald know about world war 2?

Aditya ShahGrindelwald delivers a speech in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. [Image src : pottermore] Timeline line of this speech is around 1925 to 1929. But Gellert Grindelwald revealed a vision of the future Second World War in his speech in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwa...

 
 
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4:06 PM
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Q: SF book about space travel and finding an planet inhabited by humans

Kim SmeenkThis is one of my favourite books of my father, he read a library version in the 80s or 90s in The Netherlands and has found it online, so he knows what he remembers is correct. I would like to give this book to him as a surprise, so I'm trying to piece together the title/author without having to...

 
 
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5:33 PM
@Jenayah Too many false positives.
 
@Alex "horcrux in Harry" or "Harry's Horcrux" then
 
SQB
Harcrux.
Fanfiction has been around for a long time, but it seems as if it exploded with Harry Potter.
 
@SQB facepalm
 
@Jenayah A) "If Harry would have made a Horcrux, would Harry's Horcux have fared better than Voldemort's Horcruxes?" B) "What is a Horcrux in Harry Potter?"
 
@Alex 1) POB 2) probably dupe, both can still use a pop-up with a mad @Mith :D
 
SQB
5:39 PM
"Why didn't Harry make a horcrux when he killed Voldemort?"
 
@Jenayah Even so, it would not a warrant a mad Mith popup.
 
>.<
I mean, what doesn't warrant an angry Mith popup...?
:P
 
@Mithrandir I'm not against angry Mith popups. they just have to be tailored to the question. We can't have the same popup for every single thing.
 
I was about to make that joke, thought it might not be appropriate, and then you posted it yourself... Sheesh :P
 
5:41 PM
@Jenayah Moral of the story: post first, ask for forgiveness later.
 
Uh, that's prpbably not a good morale
 
Bad moral that will lead to bad morale
 
5:54 PM
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Q: Story about Earth after a disease wiped out most of the population, except for those with "backwards" DNA

MithrandirI'm trying to identify a story - I think it was novella, not a short story, but I'm not sure - about people who survived when a disease wiped out most of Earth's population. If I recall correctly, the surviving people were living in domes, because the disease was still in the air. Some people we...

 
@Mithrandir part of that Q makes me think of what I read from amazon.com/Deviants-Dust-Chronicles-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00749XXLS when answering it for another Q but it's a series, not a short thing. Rings a bell?
 
no
looks interesting, though
 
ok!
 
6:12 PM
Jenayah: I just typed "Was Harry Potter a Horcrux?" in the title field of the Ask Question page. The first link in the search results underneath is https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84954/4918 "Was Harry actually a Horcrux? [duplicate]" That is marked as a dup of https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11530/4918 "
How did Harry become a Horcrux?" which has a 102 score answer by Slytherincess that says that Harry wasn't a Horcrux. I say Sci Fi SE is areadly working as it should.
 
@b_jonas Not sure everyone sees that, especially new users
 
6:37 PM
@Jenayah Yeah, but at least it does appear automatically when you're composing the question.
 
@b_jonas sure but you're also basing yourself in the premise that everyone does phrase a title has a question
and hot just "harry potter horcrux question" / "horcrux of harry in the books"
 
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Q: Have any Jedi defied the council to train a padawan?

RichSQui-Gon Jinn wanted to train Anakin despite opposition from the Jedi Council. He even convinced Obi-Wan to train Anakin, and although the council eventually agreed with that decision, at the time, it was also against the council's decision. Have any Jedi defied the Jedi Council to train somebod...

 
@Jenayah The second one of those still works. The bigger problem is even if the search results appear, this may require the user to click on two links and then read at least the bolded parts of Slytherincess's answer.
By the way,
Here's a theory, Avada Kedavra is the spell for making a horcrux, but you have to carefully use it on yourself. Only someone very practiced with the spell could use it "safely" on himself. When the spell rebounded from Harry, it was too powerful, so it not only unintentionally split his soul, but killed his body as well. — BlackThorn Jul 7 '17 at 21:41
^ This comment is the sort of thing why we shouldn't ban books, not even ones like Magick Moste Evil or whatever it was called. Because if aspiring dark wizards don't read how much evil you need for making a Horcrux, because they don't have access to the books, then they will try stupid suggestions like this, think that making a Horcrux is much simpler and safer than they really are, and kill themselves trying.
Apparently it's called Magick Moste Evile.
 
To be honest... if "aspiring Dark wizards" are killing themselves like that, I don't think too many people are going to mourn.
We don't need another Voldemort.
 
Oh come on. Most of them aren't like the Dark Lord, and would never become anything like that.
 
6:49 PM
Depends. Horcruxes are really really rare and only used by the Darkest of wizards.
IIRC.
So anybody who's trying to create a Horcrux... is not somebody we need around.
 
By the way, Magick Moste Evile is the book that specifically doesn't tell about Horcruxes, so that one is irrelevant.
@Mithrandir Yes, those are the Horcruxes that actually get made. Not the ones who think of making it and end up dead.
And you only know that it's used only by the darkest wizards because eventually Hermione got acccess to those books, and because JKR mentioned how rare they are. If the books are hidden, those people won't know that.
They'll only know the false rumours.
 
Daily Prophet: "Wizard kills self by botching soul-splitting method involving killing other people"
 
@Mithrandir I don't think that will appear in Daily Prophet.
 
Why?
 
Because they wouldn't find out that that's what's happened. Also, without the books or Slughorn's well-kept memory, we or the wizard trying that won't know that it's a "soul-splitting metohd involving killing other people". The first time that's revealed in the book is in Slughorn's memory.
 
6:55 PM
Actually, this raises an interesting question: How well known were the concept of Horcruxes in general?
 
@Mithrandir They certainly weren't well-known. The same Prince chapter 18 as the one mentioning Magick Moste Evile tells how Hermione was unable to find any information about them. Do you think they could be well-known then?
 
Readily available in a school library isn't an indication of it being well-known to the general adult population.
 
I don't have to quote it here, right? Just search for it on the site.
@Mithrandir Hermione wasn't restricted to looking in the school library. She could have tried anything else.
Although I admit she was kind of bad in that sort of research.
 
I don't think she had very many other options, actually.
 
It is possible that she failed despite that the information was available, because she mostly looked in the school library.
So you may be right there.
 
6:59 PM
Regulus Black apparently knew what Horcuxes were.
 
@Mithrandir pretty sure there's a Q about that
 
There might be. If not, there might be one soon :P
 
@Jenayah Yes, that is true. “I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more.” is quite clear.
R. A. B. need not have known how to make a Horcrux, but he knew what purpose it served.
 
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Q: How did Harry Potter survive against the Dementors at the lake

Zeref DragneelMovie: Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban When the lake turns to ice Dementors appear. As we all see, Harry Potter used the spell "Expecto Patronum" It held off against 2 Dementors then it turned off. Harry still survives though, how? Because future Harry saved him. But this is what I don...

 
For starters:
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Q: How did R.A.B get to know about Voldemort's Horcruxes?

roonhamRegulus Arcturus Black was a genius who figured out the existence of Voldemort's Horcruxes before anybody else. The question is how? Also which era did he live in? Maybe it happened that he was one of the boys at Slughorn's party when Tom Riddle was told about the Horcruxes? Then he might have ov...

 
7:03 PM
And yes, that's certainly curious. R. A. B. is younger the the Dark Lord, and Dumbledore was already “particularly fierce” about books on it when the Dark Lord wanted to find out about them while he was in Hogwarts.
 
some here too
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Q: Why didn't any Death Eaters create their own horcruxes?

AblessThe Death Eaters obviously had no problems with murdering people, and based on the dialogue in TGOF when Voldemort returns, they knew what horcruxes were. So why then, did none of them create their own horcrux, even if only one? Even if Voldemort did not want them to, they still could have done i...

 
@Jenayah Yeah, that is relevant too.
 
7:46 PM
@Jenayah Question is better than the answer.
 
8:34 PM
@Alex not really
 
@Jenayah Well there's no real explanation of why Regulus was the one person to figure it out (other than that JK Rowling said so). Even after it was an established fact that Voldemort had not died from the backfiring Avada Kedavra, nobody was able to guess that it was because of Horcruxes, including many witches and wizards who surely were better educated in magic, and even the Dark Arts, than a kid who had just graduated Hogwarts.
 
@Alex You should try to get Bellatrix to answer it then.
 
"because JKR said so" is quite literally a good bunch of answers
 
I like Valorum's answer, but Bellatrix may be able provide a different angle.
 
not that it's fortunate mind you
@b_jonas well... Alex might too as well :)
 
8:46 PM
@Jenayah I didn't mean bad as in the person answering did a bad job with the available material; I meant that JK Rowling's answer is bad.
@b_jonas She doesn't hang out in Chat.
Plus, I doubt there is a better answer.
 
@Alex ping her in a comment on one of her ealrier answers
 
Also, the answer is bad for that question, but it does sort of answer how much wizards knew about Horcruxes. Dumbledore could be overconfident, but at least he thinks that the Death Eaters wouldn't be familiar with Horcruxes.
@Alex There are other methods that might attract her attention. Make a bounty. Post a duplicate.
 
Urgh, posting a duplicate willingly is a bad thing
 
Oct 25 at 22:00, by Alex
@Jenayah They're both active enough that you can leave a comment on any of their posts.
 
Yeah. Post an answer instead.
 
8:49 PM
Oct 25 at 22:00, by Jenayah
@Alex meh don't want to sound preachy
 
Nov 2 at 17:26, by Alex
Using my own lines against me.
 
@b_jonas I was talking about the other question Jenayah linked. I actually more or less agree with the answers to that question.
 
Oh, right! I didn't read the reply arrow right.
But that one is from 2013, right? Bellatrix might not even know about it.
I mean, since the question is older than Bellatrix has been here, it depends on whether she found it in a search.
 
@Jenayah I am flattered.
 
@b_jonas Right because Bellatrix isn't the type to browse all HP questions and answer old ones :P
 
8:56 PM
Yeah, especially not ones that mention "Death Eaters".
Yeah, it's me who avoids those particular HP questions.
 
@Alex well you're easily the two top current HP answerers (by amount and quality of recent posts) so it's only normal
 
@Jenayah Heh, I recently started going through old Harry Potter questions to see if I could add any answers. I started from page 114 and I'm now up to page 83.
@Jenayah Thanks.
 
@Alex Wow, nice.
 
I answered ~50 of them.
 
@Alex You'll get a gold Harry Potter tag badge from that I think.
 
9:01 PM
@b_jonas 45 answers to go...
 
@Alex Yep, you've already overtaken me in those statistics.
 
Out of all of them, one switched the accepted answer.
@b_jonas You're only behind by 12.
 
9:44 PM
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Q: What is the process of making a black lightsaber?

Skylor EmberIn Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, we see a Black lightsaber much like a real sword or katana and it was supposedly stolen from the Jedi hundreds of years prior to the Clone Wars by the Mandalorians. But what I don't know is how did it turn black because we all know a red lightsa...

 
10:15 PM
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Q: 50s/60s short story in which a tourist on Mars becomes dinner

Glenn WilsonIn this short story probably from the 50s or 60s, a tourist on Mars meets a beautiful woman who invites him for dinner with her family. The problem is that with a meat shortage on Mars, he becomes the dinner!

 
@Marvin This one is tricky. It's a good start, but he'll need some very specific guidance of what other information may help in this case.
 

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