I was wondering if Slughorn genuinely appreciates Harry and actually likes the person he is? or if he just want to see if Harry defeats Voldemort, not caring whether or not he survives, as he just wants to erase the anguish from telling Voldemort about Horcruxes.

Trying to remember a "first landing on Mars" story. Read in the eighties, short story, not a novel. Basically the story has an Apollo-style crew, I think, two guys in a lander and one in an orbiting craft. The two guys in the lander come out and what they see is an Edgar Rice Burroughs kind of ...

My personal theory is that Halliday pulled an Akihiko Kayaba. Kayaba dies in episode 14 but not really, he uploads his conscience to the VR world using a high res(?) scan of his brain. Yes, the process fried his brain but he successfully transferred his conscience to the game. This makes sense...

I have a memory of a 70s-80s TV show or movie with a small group of people who have powers given by objects (possibly rings). I recall a scene where they are in jail without their magic objects but somehow retrieve them. I don't know if it's related but I also remember a scene on an icy lake wit...

I've asked for help on identifying this novel about a year ago but nothing. So here goes again :) Ancient intelligent lizard species running out of food to the extent they are eating their own eggs. They invent time travel to the present and commence changing the environment for their own purp...

The story involves African (despotic?) civilisation becoming aware of a semi-mythical caucasian who must be eliminated as he is perceived to be a threat to African society. I recall the end vividly - he is captured with his paramour, he is about to be sealed into a tomb-like structure until at ...

About 60 years ago my family had a view master stereo viewer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master1 One of the reels was an adventure with a science fiction hero defeating villains. It might have been Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon or one of the television space heroes like Rocky Jones or To...

Opening scene is of a castle where you hear sexual moaning and it shows 2 women in bed with each other in lesbian action but you only see, I believe, one breast.

Klingons sure love their gagh. It seems like they're eating the creepy-crawlies every time we see Klingon food. Even if there are other Klingon foods, it raises the question: Does gagh have all of the nutrients that an adult Klingon needs? Can one live on gagh alone, without supplementation fr...

In the latest episode of The Flash, S05E14, Nora time travels 52 times to save xyz person. It's good that Nora is taking charge to save the world and all while Barry is away. Now, here's what questionable - How did Cisco, aka Vibe sees his date with Kamilla which didn't happen in that timeline y...

i would like to identify a sci fi book i read in the 90's. it was in English and i suspect the author was either American or British. From what i can remember of the story, humanity live in a primitive state on a planet or large spaceship of alien design but they do not know this. One man is k...

I remember having a DVD in the early 2000's that told a version of Mulan's story. It had to be very small studio since I can't find any mention of it on the internet. The animation was also kind of crude. The plot involved a dragon who had to melt the snow from the mountains for people being abl...

Why no space mines with cloaking ability? They were used in WW2, WW1.

From what I remember it is an old book. It's about a guy who lives near woods and is a fisherman. He finds some alien stones that glow and I think burn a hole through his desk drawer. They get larger and merge together. I think aliens come.

In Avengers: Infinity War Thanos was building the Infinity Gauntlet to annihilate half of the living beings. Was he immune to the annihilation, or unleashing it was for Thanos like pulling the trigger in Russian roulette with 50% chance of committing the suicide?

Are there any other left handers than Seraphina Piquery in Fantastic Beasts? It´s actually weird if there would be just her... So I just wonder if you guys know, because many people are saying Newt is, but I’m not sure. I heard that Grindewald is too, because if you remember the Mirror of Erise...

The story was about how a disease, perhaps from a parasitic fungus, took over people’s minds and made them climb telephone poles and trees so when their heads exploded the spores would spread. People had to stay indoors. For some reason I thought it was a Tim Pratt story, but I cannot find it. I ...

The story I am referring to was a part of an collection of horror/sci fi stories by Indian authors and had a yellow sandy cover. I read it in 2011/2012. The story in question had an unnamed female astronaut adrift alone in her spaceship after all her crewmates die in a freak accident/due to mal...

Story identification is a big tag here. There are a lot of questions on it. There are a lot of bad questions, and a lot of good questions. One thing that could be improved on many are their titles. These titles are really inconsistent. When new ones are asked, a lot of the time they have long, u...

I once saw a computer animated short film about an AI hologram that is enslaved in a factory on a space station by some sort of taskmaster. She contacts mercenaries that come to her rescue. The mercenaries fight and then succumb to several waves of robots. There efforts allow the AI hologram to e...

In the book "The Hunger Games", it is mentioned many times that a boy and a girl from the same district, like Katniss and Peeta from District 12, are enemies, because they eventually have to kill one another. But we see people forming teams - so why can not a boy and a girl work as teammates for ...

At the end of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, there is this little exchange between Albus and Scorpius: Scorpius reaches in and hugs Albus. Albus: What's this? I thought we decided we don't hug. Scorpius: I wasn't sure. Whether we should. In this new version of us -- I had in m...

I'm looking for an online short story about the perils of indefinite copyright law. It is set in the future and watches a conversation between a lobbyist and a congressman(woman?). They are discussing a Copyright bill up for vote.

A child is sent to a prison mining colony on the belt. There is a general at the prison and promotes the child to admiral. The child and general escape and travel the Sol system as a traveling performance. As time goes on more people join the kid, now a man. The Earth government is under the UN ...

Book three in The Stormlight Archives introduces new creatures called Fused, who can use Voidlight (the opposite of Stormlight) to accomplish similar things as one using Stormlight might do - like Lashings etc. Presumably Fused should be able to use this Voidlight to heal just like Kaladin can do...

I'm trying to help a Spanish speaker who is reading Harry Potter in Spanish. Here is a rough translation of the Spanish into English: Again, Aunt Petunia had tried to stuff him into a disgusting old sweater of Dudley's. The more he tried to pass his head through it, the smaller the garme...

My first few reads through the Wheel of Time series, I was under the strong impression that Jaret Byar was corrupted solely by his proximity to Padan Fain (his own inherent character being somewhat suspect to begin with). However, on my recent re-read, I noticed this passage in the epliogue of To...

I think I read this back in the late '90s or early 2000s. I don't remember the plot at all, but there are a few bits and pieces that stick in my mind: Part of the book takes place in the real world, and the other part is in a VR simulation. You need a special suit or some sort of equipment to e...