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"Although this spell is safe to use on animals, it is not recommended until the counter-charm has been perfected"
why is it not recommended?? is it because the animal might grow big too extremely and end up exploding violently?
I'm trying to identify a science fiction story. Here are the details I can remember:
Main character was former Space Navy who had been forced out for disobeying orders. Then he gets call from his fiancee (who is daughter of his former CO & is the "brass hat" who got him discharged). The planet ...1
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I'm having trouble remembering the title of a book a read when I was in middle school but I'm compelled to track it down again years later. Here are the details I remember :
The main character was a young girl. She comes to stay with this Lord who is her senior by several years and they start slo...
Quick Silver and Scarlett Witch are magnetto's children right.. Now in the Avengers's movies both of them appear not as mutants but the enhanced or whatever. and in the X-Men movies both of them appear, or atleast I think Eric's daughter in the X-Men Apocalypse movie was scarlett witch.
So my q...
I read this book about 8 years ago, before they renovated our library. It is written by an Asian author (Japanese I think), and is heavily influenced by Asian cultures.
The main character's parents are divorced; the father cheated on the mother because she is sick and dying. The main character...
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In Dragon Ball super, we have seen Trunks traveling across timeline using Time Machine and even Zamasu or Gowasu using time ring. And unlike Gowasu, Zamasu/ Trunks have changes events, and this has been depicted as a bad and forbidden thing.
We have also Whis reversing time(Temporal Do-Over) in ...
I read (the beginning) of a short story about a man who invented nanobots. He went into a radioactive room (nuclear reactor) where he trapped himself and started reading a book.
It may have been a short story written by Isaac Asimov, but I am not sure.
As far as I can remember, it was on a col...
Matt Gutting added a very considerable amount of detail to this answer
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161520/20774
Turning it from a two sentence stub (that more closely resembled a comment) into a well-referenced and highly relevant answer.
It has 95+ upvotes and rolling it back dramatical...
In the battle of Black Water, Tyron used wildfire to destroy a large number of Stannis' ships, but all that wildfire took a very very long time to make.
So how was Cersei able to make so much in such a short period of time? I know she herself couldn't have made it, and that she must have had so...
The Japanese and Korean term mu (Japanese: 無; Korean: 무) or Chinese wú (traditional Chinese: 無; simplified Chinese: 无) meaning "not have; without" is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions.
== The word ==
The Chinese word wú 無 "not; nothing" was borrowed by East Asian languages, particularly the Sino-Xenic "CJKV" languages of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
=== Pronunciations ===
The Standard Chinese pronunciation wú historically derives from (c. 7th century CE) Middle Chinese mju, (c. 3rd century CE) Late Han Chinese muɑ, and reconstructed (c. 6th century BCE) Old Chinese ...
Mu is the name of a suggested lost continent whose concept and name were proposed by 19th-century traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who claimed that several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica, were created by refugees from Mu—which he located in the Atlantic Ocean. This concept was popularized and expanded by James Churchward, who asserted that Mu was once located in the Pacific.
The existence of Mu was already being disputed in Le Plongeon's time. Today scientists dismiss the concept of Mu (and of other alleged lost continents such as Lemuria) as physical...
Moo or MOO may refer to:
== In computing ==
MOO, a type of text-based online virtual reality system
MOO (programming language)
Moo.fx, a JavaScript effects library
Mode of operation in cryptography
== In entertainment and media ==
Moo (novel), by Jane Smiley
Moo, a number-guessing game, a computer variant of Bulls and Cows
MoO or Master of Orion, a computer game
Melody of Oblivion (MOO), an anime
Moo, a character in anime Monster Rancher
== People ==
Barbara E. Moo, American computer scientist
Douglas J. Moo, scholar who specialized in the New Testament
Eric Moo, singer and composer
Moo Ko-Suen...
Did Dumbledore know that Harry Potter would die or not? What happened to the stone which was gift of death?
Is there a scientific theory behind the colors of the flash in season one? when he runs we sea a gold spark. does this/could this represent electricity created from friction? Like when you hit two rocks there is a spark. and could the red blur represent heat created from running?
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The Pottermore article on Hatstall includes the following passage:
The only true Hatstalls known personally to Harry Potter were Minerva McGonagall and Peter Pettigrew.
It's obvious that for Peter Pettigrew the Sorting Hat would have been debating between Gryffindor and Slytherin, and ended...
In the Cursed Child, we see an alternate reality in which Albus successfully entered Griffindor in order to spite his friend.
Harry: "Panju bet you couldn't get into Griffindor."
Albus feels sad and misplaced there; not only because he is the Albus we know who belongs in an alternate dimens...2
In the film Hollow Man, Sebastian enters the apartment of his female neighbor whom he admires occasionally from his window. It is shown that he is toying with her by moving her mirror while she is brushing her hair and then it shows her start to scream and the scene is over. Sebastian tells Cart...
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I have been reading about the subject, and I have raised a series of questions about the "transofrmation" suffered by a devotee of chaos to become a demon prince.
[Q] To begin what requirements must this devotee fulfill? Does it have to be really strong or maybe only be a good devotee and meet t...
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Magneto points his hand towards an object in most cases to use his power but in few cases he does without that.
Here are few examples:
X-Men Apocalypse (Youtube Clip)
In factory when he goes back to take revenge he shuts the doors and moves objects without pointing his hand towards them.
X-Me...
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I don't know much about the Wonder Woman franchise so please bear with me.
In the movie a young Diana was told the story of how Zeus surrounded Themyscira with clouds to hide it from the outside world just before he died. The story also said that Ares was gravely injured during the fight with Ze...
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For an article I'm writing, I'm looking for a quote from Asimov's Daneel or Giskard (I don't remember which one). In this quote, one of the robots explains that he can't feel happiness, but his circuits run better and his whole functioning is more efficient. I think it could also be Bliss, but I ...
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It might be Mark Twain or O.Henry.
It discusses the shortcomings of that era's novels and short stories. Specifically, it parodies authors' remarks qualifying dialogue. The author of the essay claims that those remarks have become so mindless and mechanical that no one, neither authors no reader...
Possibly 'William Dean Howells' by Mark Twain:
Mr. Howells does not repeat his forms, and does not need to; he can invent fresh ones without limit. It is mainly the repetition over and over again, by the third-rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a w...
