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— Slytherin’s reputation as the evil house is being fixed in-universe
— There are Discworld references
— Harry is a Star Wars fan
— Various aspects of magic & magical society that seem weird, illogical and/or unreasonably underused in canon are treated reasonably (though in some cases by Harry only)
— Voldemort’s plotline will make you sad while still despising him
— Harry is constantly comparing his story to LotR
— everything and everyone is crazy but will make sense in the end (probably)
— the author is so smart but sometimes shows his Crazy Fan side
Recently I got recommended a lot of videos criticizing Harry Potter and no videos talking about how great Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is instead. Like, if you want a better version of the story, just read this fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
In his AU:
-Harry gets adopted by Petunia and an Oxford professor and is homeschooled in science
-When he gets into the wizarding world he is irritated by the society’s bigotry and backwardness and wants to change the world by fusing magic and science
-He is accepted into Ravenclaw and so is Hermione
-He befriends Draco instead of Ron and slowly makes him question his beliefs and actually become a better person
-Hermione has a lot of screen time and her own arcs including the one where she fights against misogyny in heroism
-there’s a homestuck reference
-there’s a death note reference
-at some point Harry bullies the sorting hat
-Voldemort (or rather his actual identity) is a well-written character with interesting backstory and goals
- the plot point where Harry is Voldemort’s horcrux plays a big role in this
-at some point Voldemort uses a gun
-there’s a scientific explanation to how spirits and patronus work
-there’s an mlp reference
-one of the hocruxes is in space
-the Philosopher’s stone is canonically created by two lesbians and one of them is baba yaga