Thursday, 14 April 2016

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

quote [ So not only is the wizarding economy almost completely decoupled from the Muggle economy, no one here has ever heard of arbitrage. The larger Muggle economy had a fluctuating trading range of gold to silver, so every time the Muggle gold-to-silver ratio got more than 5% away from the weight of seventeen Sickles to one Galleon, either gold or silver should have drained from the wizarding economy until it became impossible to maintain the exchange rate. ]

A little late, but I just started listening to the podcast presentation of this recently.

One of the first bits of fan fiction that I've really liked, and the podcast version is quite well done. If you like Harry Potter, but wish that he was a little bit pedantic about rationality, this is pretty enjoyable. I've been liking it. Quoted bit is from Chapter 4, when Harry visits the wizard bank.
[SFW] [SE Book Club] [+5 Good]
[by DirtyBirdy@2:05pmGMT]

Comments

b said @ 6:50pm GMT on 14th Apr
Nice! I read 60 some chapters of this, but kind of let it slide. I'll definitely revisit as a podcast.
ooo[......7 said @ 9:41pm GMT on 14th Apr
HA!

It wasn't me this time!

spaceloaf said @ 5:12am GMT on 15th Apr
I mostly liked this but I think it kind of fell apart at the end. The author tried to tie up too many threads at once, and the villain was so intelligent and powerful that he had to kind of make some BS reason to have a happy ending.

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