Does Ender ever directly pilot ships and the Molecular Disruption Device in the book? Or does he just come up with tactics, maneuvers, and issue commands?
I'm looking for a story I read once. It's a harry potter fanfic where Snape has to retrieve Harry from the Dursley's because he didn't arrive on the train. I THINK it's after 5th year, but I'm not sure.
Anyway Snape gets there and harry is blind, he was blinded over the summer by his uncle. I re...
Dormammu, I've Come To Bargain Scene. What i think is that it was connected to Dr Strange death. Every time he dies it start again and again and again until it pissed Dormammu
I have been reading the Tallarn novel of the Horus Heresy series.
I know that Tallarn of the 40K universe has always been a dessert world but given how Games Workshop like to change its own history and cannon I wondered if the reason for this has always been due to Viral Bombing since the first...
So in the book Brothers in Arms in Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, in one of the conversations real-Miles tried to convince alter-Miles that it's impossible to pretend to be admiral Naismith:
"You still couldn't bring it off," argued Miles. "There are five
thousand Dendarii. I know hundreds of t...
In Black Panther before T'Challa goes on his mission to capture/kill Klaue he visits Shuri for some new tech. Here she gives him some "automatic shoes":
She then says the following:
Shuri: Try them on. Fully automated. Like the old American movie Baba used to watch.
Black Panther
Wh...
In Was Miles exaggerating the number of Dendarii to dissuade his captors from using his people?, I made the bold claim that Miles believed that the Dendarii Free Mercenaries would disintegrate without him to keep them united. Before he left for the final time in Memory, he left them under the ext...
Being a bit vague here it was a series I saw in the 1990-2005 on the sci-fi channel in Europe. The main plot is that there a two geneticists and they find some people have x% difference in their makeup making them not Homo sapiens.
I have some thoughts that it was called 47% or similar but cann...
I am looking to buy a book that my father read as a boy, for his next birthday. I know very little about it except the protagonist is able to bodily trans-locate in a manner referred to specifically as a 'Jaunt' or 'jaunting'. My father's childhood was in the late 1930's through the 40's, so I ...
I'm looking for this fic where Snape, McGonagall and Pomfrey save Ginny using an ancient spell after she drinks a potion to kill herself.
The spell drains their life force and most of the fic is about Snape recovering from that and Harry helping him. And the Weasleys owe him a debt.
I loved thi...
This is "Digging for the Bones" by Pannageid.
Ginny attempts suicide with a potion
(Chapter 23)
"Sir." gasped Harry, "Ginny Weasley. She's taken a potion. It's bad. In the common room."
"It looks like an overdose of a Draught of Peace. There's residue still in her mouth." said Snape,...
Here we go again, the Winter Bash is here and the hats are listed below.
The list has the same format as always, there are only two answers: one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. The secret hat list will be updated as we learn them.
Only edit the secret hat answer with definiti...
A few months ago, a company contacted me about a 2-year data science contract. I agreed to an initial telephone interview, during which I was asked:
"in Python, what's the difference between a list and a tuple?",
"what's Bayes' theorem?"
"what is the interpretation of the derivative of...
The Horklump resembles a fleshy pink mushroom covered in sparse, wiry black bristles. A prodigious breeder, the Horklump can cover a matter of days. It spreads sinewy tentacles rather than roots into the ground to search for its preferred food of earthworms.
So why is this classified as a be...
Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2018 through December 31st 2018.
You can also highlight any question or answer from the entire year, which wasn't already previously featured in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd quarter posts.
Your answers w...
At the end of the Children of Dune mini-series Ghanima says:
He runs, and runs, and runs, and when he's exhausted himself he returns to me, puts his head on my lap and asks me to find a way to die.
It would be understandable that Leto II would want to die given what he knew but did Leto II ...
TLDR: Why is the only nurse we encounter in the wizarding world Madam Pomfrey?
Throughout the Harry Potter books, Madam Pomfrey is described as both "the school nurse" and the matron:
From Book 1:
Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was a nice woman, but very strict.
From Book 6:
He [Harry] had...
A common joke I've seen online is that Bruce Wayne can't seem to date a woman without her either A) dying or B) eventually finding out he's Batman. I know of several cases where he entered a semi-serious relationship with a woman, but oddly enough both criteria apply to those (usually the latter ...
Few days ago I've asked an question Why do wizards use such ineffective spells during serious situations in Harry Potter? about magic spells and their effectivity in combat.
In the comments section, @TylerH has written the following
As I recall, Sectumsempra was a curse invented by Snape, wh...
