HPMOR's controversial Chapter 7 shock line defended as a purely literary device
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-25
A long-running AI-community literary debate resurfaces over HPMOR Chapter 7's shock line: the original post argues it solves a hard literary problem—smashing a cheerful mood so readers realize a Death Eater's childhood isn't cheerful. suchenzang quote-shares with a sarcastic addendum that adult discomfort with child-on-child abuse depiction "is on you."
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