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Q: When did wizards and witches first learn that a love-sacrifice protects against the Killing Curse?

RichSWhen Harry Potter was growing up, people did not why he was the only person to survive the Killing Curse. “The nature of that prophecy is unknown, although speculation is rife that it concerns Harry Potter, the only person ever known to have survived the Killing Curse, and who is also known t...

 
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Q: Why didn't they shrink plants like humans?

Willy TopIn Sci-fi movie Downsizing (2017), Paul offers Dusan a rose: Why didn't they shrink plants like humans?

 
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Q: What the name of this summoning series?

Lettuceso I usted to watch a cartoon/anime style TV show when I was younger and I can't remember the name. It was animated like an action series like He-Man or Dragon Ball, but it had teenagers as protagonists. I remember that one of them could summon, from a pendant, a blue mammal (I say mammal cause I...

 
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@Alex oh, I went with the "posts edited" in the profile page.
Hence the difference
 
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Q: Short story about a girl whose grandma taught her to talk to bees

Alice MidnightThe story was about a simple girl, her grandma taught her how to understand and talk to bees, next day she wanted to understand birds then moles.. Idk if it is moles. A prince came by and wanted to marry her, she ended up in a locked tower, she called the bees to sting the guards, birds to pull i...

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Q: Why did Wednesday ask Shadow to hold his vigil?

MithicalIn the beginning of American Gods, Wednesday includes holding his vigil in the deal with Shadow: "We haven't made a bargain." "Sure we have. You work for me. You protect me. You hep me. You transport me from place to place. You investigate, from time to time — go places and ask questions fo...

 
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Q: Who was the slayer before Buffy?

Colonel Panic"When a slayer dies, a new slayer is chosen." Who was the slayer before Buffy?

 
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@Marvin That's almost as bad as some of the Harry Potter questions.
 
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Q: Harry Potter - How could Hermione have compulsory classes at the same time as optional classes?

Camille CoboIn Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione is known to take all 12 subjects that are proposed to students (among which 7 compulsory classes, and 5 optional classes, which are : Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, and Muggle Studies). We learn at the end of the book that she h...

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This one is for @Alex
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Q: identify humorous short story about spicy pizza defeating a dragon

William DilgardI recall reading this in a collection of short fantasy (possibly sci-fi and fantasy) in a library circa 1990. In the story a man goes off to fight a dragon. I don't recall the exact details but I believe he cooks an extremely spicy dish, I'm pretty sure some kind of pepperoni pizza, and feeds ...

@Jenayah I think it should be a duplicate of my question.
Is there anyone able to draw a useful comparison between the Jurassic Park novel and film?
Preferably not someone who's all "film adaptations are shit" rather than someone who appreciated the film and can provide some input on what reading the novel afterwards could gain beyond having the existing story just fleshed out a little more.
Depends how you define "gain". They're very different experiences.
I just cheated the system a bit.
Accepted my own answer to be able to close a duplicate, and then immediately unaccepted.
@Mithical Oh, I thought you hadn't seen the film. But yes, possibly.
@Alex ?_?
19:23
I did see the first Jurassic Park. I've read the novel several times.
How is it actually written, narratively? I know Crichton sometimes does things like epistolary novels where he intermixes various text excerpts and viewpoints to draw the whole story. Is it somewhat like that or a more "classic" stringent narrative?
More like the first, as in it jumps perspective a few times
@NapoleonWilson The above question mentioned by Jenayah.
I wanted to close it as a duplicate of one of my questions, but it had no upvoted or accepted answer. So I accepted my self-answer to make it eligible for duplicates.
Though the strange thing is that it had another upvoted answer, so it shouldn’t have been blocked in the first place.
Ah, I wondered why you had to do that. But I didn't know it only counts upvoted answers.
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@Marvin TIL editing the bot's message refreshes it
@Alex I know I shouldn't bite, but this feels like closing "what is superposition?" as a duplicate of "can you give me a complete explanation of Quantum Mechanics?"
Which I should've expected
Useful when a question has been edited to hide a spoiler
@Alex if you say so
@Alex oh my, does that mean there are others with the same kind of twisted questions you have?!
The horror
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Q: What’s the name of this movie

SVC1313What is the name of movie where they spray some kind of chemical into the atmosphere to cool down the earth but then they end up using way too much and the earth goes into another ice age order by

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If you are an active user over on Literature, consider voting in the election... literature.stackexchange.com/election
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Anyway, you convinced me to try this Jurassic Park thing.
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@FuzzyBoots scifi.stackexchange.com/q/230173/98028 is certainly worth linking to, but I wouldn't say it's a duplicate. One is looking for the books, the otehr for the movie.
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Q: A sci-fi movie/TV show where a male character is sent through a factory conveyor belt process that will 'fix' them

DaveRGPI was watching TV in the 1990's in the UK which was showing either a movie or TV show. I only remember that in the scene I saw that 2 characters, where at least 1 was male, had crashed, or we're transported, to an alternative planet/dimension/time period. In the scene they are 'captured' by a '...

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I always like the all inclusive "and stuff" descriptor. — JohnP Jan 24 '14 at 22:25
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@Skooba Can we have a version of that message without the implied "vote for me"? :-)
People should vote for the best candidate(s) for Literature, regardless of whether they're SFF regulars or not.
"Vote to decide who will be my replacement..."
Opposite question: how do I downvote a candidate? :P
Unfortunately, that's not possible when skipping the middle section of an election (which happens when there are fewer than ten candidates).
I was joking, but good to know.
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@Jenayah My bad.
no worries
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@xkcd Is that ... funny?
Most of the XKCD COVID comics have been decidedly on the "not" side of the "funny" chart.
@Mithical accurate, but replace "COVID" with "2020" for even more accuracy.
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@Jenayah Just because we like Rand and he does a good job here, it doesn't mean we get to keep him to ourselves. Even when he spurns us to hang out with those *sniff* highbrows.
*tries to look at own eyebrows*
@DavidW aww
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Though Rand is the only one who posted why not to vote for him.
@Jenayah How many twisted questions do we need before we can just say that it's the books that are twisted?
The books or Alex?
@Alex that's an interesting perspective, whic I don't think you've ever brought up before.
Because I was pretty sure it was just Alex.
It would mean, however, that I can't really make fun of you being twisted anymore.
So I'll settle for you being twisted as a result of overreading the twisted HP books. Deal?
@Jenayah Right, because this hasn't been overcited yet:
Apr 17 '19 at 20:09, by Alex
Mar 8 at 17:05, by Alex
Jan 31 at 19:33, by Alex
Dec 30 '18 at 22:11, by Alex
Dec 3 at 19:52, by Alex
Nov 28 at 20:33, by Jenayah
Nov 2 at 18:22, by Jenayah
@Alex you're an unsufferable twisted, bully boy turning into an evil snakelike creature after splitting his own soul?
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Wouldn't a twisted Alex be Elxa?
@DavidW I think that "a complete explanation of Quantum Mechanics" would be Too Broad (or whatever they're calling it these days). But to the extent that such a question is not too broad to be answered, I would think that any question that asked about a specific detail of Quantum Mechanics would be a duplicate of the general question.
@Randal'Thor Ask Alexa.
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@Randal'Thor twisted Alex:
(Behold my mastery of the mighty GIMP)
Not bad.
Anyone want to help an experiment?
Science.Science.Science.Science.Science.Science.Science.Science.Science.Science.
I'm looking at you @Jenayah
@Jenayah not enough elephant bathtubs to be alex, though
Or @Mithical
What experiment?
Testing a potential bug.
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It's two in the morning. I'm going to need you to elaborate a bit more than that.
Eh, can't run a science experiment with a sleep-deprived subject. could skew the results.
Though you wouldn't be the subject, actually.
There's two aspects.
1) I need someone to downvote my answer here:
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A: If Hagrid couldn't take a portkey because they were being watched, how could they take a portkey to Grimmauld Place?

AlexWhen it comes to portkeys, I don't think the issue of being watched centers around magical tracking methods. Indeed, in the Chapter Twenty-Two quote Dumbledore explicitly contrasts portkeys to the Floo Network in that the former is not being tracked. Similarly, in the Chapter Three quote Lupin do...

too lazy to download a transparent background elephant and add it in, you do it :P
This thing's taking shape
The bathtub is almost as big as the elephant.
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Well?
Well what?
What's the problem?
It’s not a problem.
Then there's no problem.
There’s still an experiment though.
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Q: Anyone got a title of the book for me?

David MasseyI once read a SciFi book in which there was a special type of judge or adjudicator. In this book the 'judge' is referred to "a large black cube over there. The size of a house." Which the reply is, "How do I know it's a cube of that size? From this aspect I cannot see all of its sides and size is...

Bluergh, GIMP isn't working for me
is GIMP even working for anyone?
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Nicely done!
I have officially spent entirely too much time on @Alex for tonight now
ahahah

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