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When it comes to Harry Potter,

> but on closer reading

does not make the inconsistencies go away, but they multiply.




> they multiply

Again based on specific assumptions. The universe of possibilities includes very strange places.


> universe of possibilities includes very strange places.

that's an unjustified assumption.


Why? I mean if we and the characters are unsure what the underlying physics is then the possibilities are literally endless.

If nothing else pure randomness is a unsatisfying possibility as is a full branching search of every possible state for a universe.




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