So I'm looking for a Harry Potter fanfiction that I read a few years ago in which it turns out that Harry Potter isn't actually Harry Potter, but a child who was stolen from Diagon Alley to replace Harry Potter. In this fanfiction, Vernon Dursley killed the real Harry Potter, and Dumbledore has b...

I had to edit this due to being flagged as opinion based. Yes, I wrote out the thought process I used when trying to answer my own question. Don’t read below the questions if that offends you. Is it likely the divergence between Earth 1 and Earth 2 occurred the first time Rhoda saw Earth 2 as a ...

In the Silmarillion, the Oath of Feanor called the Everlasting Darkness on any who broke the Oath. This was clearly something greatly to be feared. What exactly was it?

I saw a movie on Syfi maybe 8-10 years ago where people were able to travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. They had to stay on this bridge type thing and not step off or touch anything to avoid a butterfly effect. Someone stepped off and killed a bug, and when they got back to their ow...

Trying to find a book that I read a while ago. A girl who is a fighter that wears a mask, red devil maybe? She ends up in a different town and falls for a guy but then her fight coach dies and before she leaves she stabs her mother in the eye for tricking her or something and then she return to h...

The Sith adhere to the Rule of Two: one master and one apprentice. The apprentice is taught that once they surpass their master, they must take his (her?) place by killing them. In this way, the Sith order increases in power through a Darwinian-like process of attrition. This means that the Sith...

After signing on to work at the bathhouse, Yubaba gives Chihiro a particularly unpleasant job to do, bathing a smelly, sludge-oozing guest who turns out to be the spirit of a river polluted by garbage. However, Chihiro is insightful enough to realise what the problem is and with the help of th...

Looking for the name and author of a short story I read back in the 80s. It was in a sci fi anthology possibly for young adults. The story was about a spaceship full of teens - boys and girls. There may have been a few adults looking after them. I cant recall why they were travelling. I beli...

I read this in school so like the 90s.. It was a hardcover book with a darker cover maybe had some red on it and black. The girl was very innocent and somehow the sorceress needed her for her power or something. So the sorceress kidnapped her and was keeping her from her family or boyfriend or so...

I notice that only one post has mentioned the similarities between the Lucas robots and the Elija Bailey series. I think the similarities prove that Lucas borrowed the concept directly. Including the Robot appearance of Giskard and R2D2 as opposed to the humanoid appearance of Daneel and C3P0. A...

I am looking for an anime movie or series about a boy that travels with a girl on a submarine named Nautilus, some connection with Jules Verne novel.

In the episode of "Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys" entitled "The Apes of Wrath," the heroes' ship's hologram generator is sabotaged. Instead of creating the usual helpful (if short-lived) red-shirted holographic baboons, it produces an army of evil baboons led by a dictator with the speech...

We know that a Galaxy-class starship has a crew complement of about 1,000 members, see: What is the crew complement and capacity of the Galaxy class? but - what about the distribution of these 1,000 people - in principle, or on the Enterprise-D - w.r.t. rank? I know, I know - most specific pos...

The sequence in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens seems to imply that it took only seconds for the energy beam to reach the New Republic capital from Starkiller Base. How close was the planet to the New Republic capital? (And did it really only take secon...

As far as I understand it in TFA we have three major political forces: The New Republic The First Order The Resistance Do we know -- is The Resistance part of the Republic, just the part that is engaging in the fight against The First Order? Or is the Resistance adjacent to the Republic someh...

What's the name of the movie where a scientist and his flying spherical robot is present? I remember someone attacks the robot and it get destroyed.