[Harry Potter] Moonset over Reichenbach

*When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

-- Sherlock Holmes

*Once every impossible conclusion has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how strange or unbelievable, must be the incontrovertible truth.

-- Sherlock Holmes

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Yet even if everything impossible really has been ruled out, how can you know you have considered every possibility?

The author isn't a fan of any particular Hogwarts house or character. Strictly speaking, I'm only a Harry Potter setting fan (so this is an author writing from the outside).

But as a longtime detective-fiction fan:

-- Dumbledore's death in Half-Blood Prince was obviously a setup.

-- For a while, I thought the professor's ability to independently devise spells and hold the intellectual property rights to them in Book Six (engineering girl, what strange thing did you leave lying around here?) was a clue leading up to this scene.

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And yet...

Then the seventh book came out...

Should I say, "Occam's Razor outranks Kant's aesthetics" (NANI!), "The truth is more dramatic than deduction" (AH?), or "The odds of a high-IQ crime are so low that taking it seriously means you've already lost" (Hey!)?

But I can probably guess the predicament Rowling was facing: some people had already been marked down as "must die."

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So,

with no "kill off a whole cast" assignment,

the AI game-theory-obsessed detective-fiction fan, academic, and Ravenclaw partisan

will show you

what integrity in the detective-fiction industry looks like!

The prose will try to stay close to the style of the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

The London scenery takes inspiration from G.K. Chesterton (a godlike writer, painting scenes of old London).

The characters belong on the surface to J.K. Rowling, but their inner selves belong to Conan Doyle.

The plot belongs to me.

My ambition is to write a Harry Potter story in the style of Conan Doyle, at the level of the BAU.

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Detective | Mystery | Martial Arts | Undercover Work | Magic

Harry Potter characters have hidden counterparts among the characters in the original Holmes stories.

Plot-driven, a short-to-medium-length story.

(I borrowed the English edition of Deathly Hallows from the school library, and decided to finish it before updating this story.

My current main project is The Girl from Princeton.

The Wayfarer (Passengers to Hogwarts)