[LCF]

Originally Posted by LCF

Reading Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality and laughing like I haven't for months. It's hilarious!!!

just to illustrate:

Harry sent his parents a glare. "I am a conscientious objector to the child draft, on the grounds that I should not have to suffer for a continually disintegrating school system's abject failure to provide teachers or study materials of even minimally adequate quality."

Both of Harry's parents howled with laughter at that, like they thought it was all a big joke. "Oh," said Harry's father, eyes bright, "is that why you bit a math teacher in third year."

"She didn't know what a logarithm was!"

"Of course," seconded Harry's mother. "Biting her was a very mature response to that."

Harry's father nodded. "A well-considered policy for solving the general problem of teachers who don't understand logarithms."

"I was seven years old! How long are you going to keep on bringing that up?"

"I know," said his mother sympathetically, "you bite one math teacher and they never let you forget it, do they?"

Harry turned to McGonagall. "There! You see what I have to deal with?"