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You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around.This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.'And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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Celine glanced up as she passed under an arch, at another of the chateau__ decorations, her personal favorite: the entwined letters G and R, carved over every doorway. Family legend had it that one of the original owners of the chateau, a knight by the name of Sir Gaston de Varennes, was responsible for that bit of artwork. Sir Gaston, it seemed, had been quite a ladies_ man__ntil he had met and married his wife, whom he loved so much, he had had her initial engraved with his in every castle he owned.

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Are you okay, Maggie?_ Logan asked, rousing me out of my mind-numbing speculations. Heaving a big sigh, I turned to him and said, __ guess so._ __re you still worried about visiting your mother?_ he asked softly. Nodding, I said, __ little. I__ just so confused about this whole time-space-brain twister thing. And I__ afraid I might say the wrong thing and mess everything up._ I shook my head, trying to make sense of my thoughts. __ mean - what if my younger self should call my mother while I__ there visiting her? Is there really another version of me? Or by coming here from the future, did the younger me cease to exist?

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How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?

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Robert Nathan

Portrait of Jennie