Once you have finished your actions, time begins to flow again for the rest of the world. If you had created an effect whose duration extends past the end of the spell, such as a wall of fire, it immediately affects others again as normal, though it doesn’t have any of the effects that normally happen when you first cast the spell.
So that means that if you cast Black Tentacles or Scintillating Pattern, which affect creatures when you cast the spell or if they end their turn in the spell, the creatures won't be affected when time resumes? And they will only be affected if they end their turn in it?
Seems a little counter-intuitive given the spell just instantly manifesting around you from the perspective of targeted creatures, but that seems to be my reading.
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I think it is meant to be more like "when you cast it, delay 'when you cast this spell....' effects until Time Stop completes.
So "on the start of their turn" effects aren't effected, triggered, OR skipped.
Yeah, making it "when time resumes, do the 'when cast' effect" makes more sense. I still, one day, just wanna pull a Dio knife throwing gag with Time Stop. Also, how would throwing knifes and/or casting Fireball and the like work? Do they function like ZE WORLDO where the knives leave your hand and then pause? Does Fireball also do that? Time Stop does a lot of weird things for initially looking so straightforward.........
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Time Stop does a lot of weird things for initially looking so straightforward.........
Harry opened the note his other self left on the table. In a shakey script was written, "do not mess with time."
A thousand upvotes for the HPMOR reference.
A thousand upvotes for the HPMOR reference.
:D
I read someone else's alternate ending recently. He used the time travel to solve a similar problem, but justified it. Basically, it worked because there were no other options. Either the note contained the desired information or Harry died. If he died, he couldn't write the note and send it back in time. Ergo, P=NP.
As "do not mess with time" was not a viable outcome, the universe was forced to create a note with correct, verifiable information.
The end-end of it was kind of b*!!&!+* though. Much less satisfying than the original.
I expect to be reviled for all eternity for this.
I can't stand Harry Potter. I'd rather watch infomercials all day than a single episode of Harry Potter. Yuck.
I expect to be reviled for all eternity for this.
I can't stand Harry Potter. I'd rather watch infomercials all day than a single episode of Harry Potter. Yuck.
HPMOR is fanfiction written by a very intelligent guy. Its "Harry Potter if he'd been raised by scientists."
He very quickly becomes super-friends with Professor Quirrel and Draco Malfoy, while Hermione turns into his nemesis of sorts (two hyperintelligences trying to outwit each other). Ron quickly gets completely dropped, as he's an idiot.
If nothing else, read up through chapter 13. Suffer through it, the payoff at the end is absolutely brilliant. Telling you why, of course, spoils it. Most of the chapters are pretty short, though 13 itself is long, and it doesn't spend forever rehashing things beyond what it needs to in order to ground you and alter things. He gets to Hoggwarts by chapter 9. Unfortunately ch13 relies on some setup that takes place over the preceding chapters.
And anything labeled Omake Files can be skipped (they're each about 4 sub-300 word entries in "what if" type interludes), eg ch11.