How did Will Turner not turn into a zombie when he was a child, when his father left him the last Aztec golden piece?
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In Pirates of the Caribbean, whoever has the Aztec gold gets cursed.  But Elizabeth had the gold coin with her which Bootstrap gave to his son Will before he was tied to a cannon and dropped to the ocean floor.  Barbossa states that they were cursed because of Aztec gold.  Also in the fight between Jack and Barbossa, Jack takes a gold coin and he was also cursed.  Why didn't Elizabeth get affected? Or was she also cursed and nobody noticed?
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In Looper, it is established that permanent physical harm to a young looper will instantaneously affect the old version of the same looper. For example, a looper can send a message to his older self by permanently carving it in his arm.  I assume Abe and his gang know about this. Why is it, then, that in Seth's case:      when the killers capture young Seth, they torture and mutilate him in order to force old Seth to come to them, then end shooting him up? Wouldn't simply killing young Seth get rid of both Seths? Is the torture simply sadism?   We know the above will happen, since something similar happens later in the movie. And if Joe, who is definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed, can figure it out, surely Abe must also know it?
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In , Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian, and Marvin have just stolen Hotblack Desiato's stunt ship after leaving Milliways and traveled into the past 2 million years before their own time.      ”Trouble is,” said Ford, ”that the one instrument in this whole ship that   is giving any reading is worrying me. If it is what I think it is, and if it’s   saying what I think it’s saying, then we’ve already gone too far back into   the past. Maybe as much as two million years before our own time.”   As they realize that this ship is about to crash into the sun, they discover a teleportion device (their only means of escape) and leave Marvin behind to control it so they can escape despite the fact they have no idea where they might end up. Arthur and Ford end up on the Golgafrincham ship which shortly thereafter crash landed on pre-historic Earth (i.e. roughly 2 million B.C.), and Zaphod and Trillian end up back on The Heart of Gold.      ”I trust you had a pleasant meal?” said Zarniwoop to Zaphod and Trillian   as they rematerialized on the bridge of the starship Heart of Gold and lay   panting on the floor.   As I understand from the beginning of the book, at this point the Heart of Gold had been left with Zarniwoop alone on the ship in Arthur's "own time" (in the 1980's). There doesn't really seem to be any explanation as to why the teleportion device sent Zaphod and Trillian 2 millions years into the future as far as I can tell.   So, am I misinterpreting something to the story and the gang really left The Heart of Gold 2 million years before their own time, or did the teleportion device also act as a time machine when Zaphod and Trillian stepped into it? Or perhaps did Zarniwoop have The Heart of Gold travel back in time?
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Q: Will there be, or have there been, any “late blooming” students in the school who come into their magic potential as adults, rather than as children? By the way, I loved meeting you, and hearing you speak, when you came to Anderson's in Naperville. I can hardly wait until you tour again. JKR: Ahhh! I loved the event at Anderson’s. It was one of my favorites. That is completely true. No, is the answer. In my books, magic almost always shows itself in a person before age 11; however, there is a character who does manage in desperate circumstances to do magic quite late in life, but that is very rare in the world I am writing about. (src: )  Who was JKR referring to in “there is a character”? Clearly, it not a student; so the most obvious guess of &quot;Neville Longbottom&quot; is wrong – both due to “no” answer regarding the question itself, and the fact that Neville bloomed in his 6th/7th year, well before you can legitimately term “quite late in life”.
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I read this in English in the late 70s in primary school. What I remember:  Two boys are somehow caught up in a time travel scenario. I think their father may have been the inventor of the time machine. Their initial journey takes them back about 200 million years. They meet an animal they identify as a cynogasaurus. At least, that's what my memory told me. Google tells me my memory may be playing tricks and they met a  instead. It was definitely cynogsomething. They somehow jump forward to caveman times with the cynogasaurus/cynognathus in tow. They befriend a similarly-aged kid who's a member of a particular tribe, possibly the leopard tribe. The leopard tribe are enemies of the zebra tribe. It's possible I've got both animals wrong. Each tribe has a sacred animal. Disputes between the tribes are settled by their sacred animals fighting. Somehow the kids have caused the death of &quot;their&quot; tribe's sacred animal so they offer the cynogawhatsit, which the cave-people call Nog, in its place. Nog wins the fight and stays on as the sacred animal when the kids leave.  Edit: I thought it may have been Lester Del Rey's &quot;Tunnel Through Time&quot;, the subject of a few queries here over the years. The cover looks familiar and some details match. However two comments have verified that it doesn't feature the cynog* creature, sacred animals or the fight, which are what I recall about the book.
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I had always assumed that it was a struggle to capture Mad-Eye Moody, one of the most powerful and paranoid ex-Aurors in the history of the Ministry.  Following on from this  it seems like Mad-Eye was overwhelmed quickly and quietly:     Wormtail and I did it. We had prepared the Polyjuice Potion beforehand. We journeyed to his house. Moody put up a struggle. There was a commotion.... I was ready to face Arthur Weasley when he arrived to sort out the Muggles who had heard a disturbance. I made the dustbins move around the yard.   To my knowledge, the dustbins moving were the only thing that alerted Arthur, or anyone else, to the commotion. Unless I'm misunderstanding, Wormtail and Crouch Jr incapacitated Moody without any noise, and then set off the bins... But this doesn't make sense.  What am I missing?
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At the very end of Deathly Hallows, after Harry repaired his own wand with the Elder Wand, he tells Dumbledore's Portrait in the office:     “I’m putting the Elder Wand,” he told Dumbledore, who was watching him with    enormous affection and admiration, “back where it came from. It can stay there. If I die a    natural death like Ignotus, its power will be broken, won’t it? The previous master will    never have been defeated. That’ll be the end of it.   Now, this seems incredibly foolish to me.  "The previous master will never have been defeated" would only have been assuredely true if Harry had died right after depositing the Elder Wand back into Dumbledore's Tomb.   If not, Harry (the Wand owner) would still be alive, and at the risk of being Disarmed (as was shown with Harry and Draco Malfoy, it doesn't matter if the Elder Wand's owner is defeated by death or simple disarming, AND it's not even required that the Disarming would involve the Elder Wand!).  So, if Harry merely put the Elder Wand back into the Tomb, and some years later, someone would disarm him (or, even worse, kill him) - then that someone would become the Elder Wand owner, either by accident or by design:    By accident - Harry is likely to get into plenty of magical duels in the future. Even discounting friendly one (teaching people the Expelliramus), he plans on becoming an Auror!  By design - plenty of people have been in the Great Hall hearing Harry explaining to Voldemort that he, Harry, was now the owner of the Elder Wand, so the fact of his ownership would most assuredly NOT remain a secret, inviting countless people tempted by owning the Deathstick to hunt Harry down. Oh, and the location is now also known!   So "its power will be broken" is quite unlikely to come true!  Is Harry hopelessly wrong? Or am I missing something in the above logic? Was this addressed in canon/JKR info?
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How is Necromancy accomplished in the Harry Potter universe?  I thought that people cannot be raised from the dead in Harry Potter.  Were bodies just use as puppets that can only do simple tasks, for instance when Dumbledore and Harry were getting the locket, the  were there to guard the locket.  Also, besides Inferi were there any Zombies in Harry Potter?
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How is it that       The Master   Came to be in the Nethersphere?  The last time we saw him      He died and refused to regenerate.  The Doctor even cremated his body.   So, given what previously happened to him, how was he now able to      Regenerate as Missy and take over the Nethersphere?
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Some 30 years back, I saw a film about the son of an extraterrestrial who gets involved in a gold heist.  The main character does not initially know that he is the son of an extraterrestrial and that has special telekinetic powers. The film opens, I think, with him being in some train yard, his foot getting stuck in a switch with a locomotive approaching. He stops it using his powers intuitively, possibly passing out (not realizing what he actually did). I think his mother subsequently reveals his heritage to him.  He somehow gets hired as a bodyguard for someone planning a gold heist. I think they know his abilities and use him to steal a million US dollars. Actually, that is just a distraction, covering that they steal 30 million dollars from the same location (through the air, not sure on that part).  The last part I remember is some underground tunnels where the thieves set up to melt the gold. The main character is locked in there.  Does anyone know the title of this movie? Searching for things like "sci-fi gold heist extraterrestrial etc." did not reveal anything to me. I also had a hard time picking proper tags (sorry).
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Sorry for the vague title--I don't want the title to be a spoiler.  I've seen the movie three times, and the last two times I looked specifically for clues to this question, but found none.  The final scene in  shows       Cobb's top spinning, as he goes off to be reunited with his children.  The top continues to spin, then the movie ends, without telling us if the top topples--and therefore revealing whether he's in the "real world" or still in a dream. Do we know if he was in a dream at the end of the movie?   I'm assuming the answer is that we simply cannot know.  But did I miss anything?  Were there clues that I missed?
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I remember parts of a story about some researchers finding a society of sentient dinosaurs. I believe they lived underground. From what I recall there were some steam punk elements and I think crystals were important.  From what I recall (this might be wrong) there was a book and also a movie about that story.  In the process, humans lived with these dinosaurs. I am not sure if that was like that from the beginning or if that happened later.  Any idea what that story might be?
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Towards the end of , it's revealed that Borden accomplishes his Transported Man trick by using his twin brother, Fallon, as a double. It then becomes clear that he has been doing this in his personal life as well as on stage - each brother leads 'half a life', sometimes appearing as Borden and sometimes as Fallon. This is how he completes the illusion: one Borden goes into the first door, the other Borden emerges from the second door a moment later. Angier doesn't know how Borden does the trick, and doesn't believe Borden uses a double despite being told as much by Cutter. He follows what he believes to be a clue in Borden's notebook and travels to Colorado to meet Nikola Tesla, who Angier believes can build a machine that can help him perform the trick. Angier believes that Tesla built a similar machine for Borden. However, the final pages of the notebook reveal that Tesla was merely a red herring, designed to get Angier out of Borden's way for a long time. Tesla, it turns out, had never built such a machine before. At this point, Tesla agrees to build Angier's machine anyway. Instead of building a machine that transports matter, he builds one that duplicates it. Angier uses this machine in his act, but in order to avoid having to deal with multiple clones (the &quot;prestige materials&quot;), one of them must die as part of the act. This all makes sense, so far, but I find it hard to believe that Borden's use of the word 'Tesla' as the key to his cipher is random. It's too coincidental that he sends Angier on a wild goose chase, but Angier returns with a working machine. A film that is otherwise so tightly plotted shouldn't rely on coincidence to move the narrative forward, so there must be something else going on. Is it possible that Borden cloned himself using Tesla's machine?
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So, a character died from Draining Kiss of a succubus and his Max HP is 0. Can he be restored by Raise Dead, or does he need a higher level spell? Or a Greater Restoration cast on his lifeless body before Raise dead? I'm probably interested in RAW interpretation, since the character is in Adventurerer's league.
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Trying to identify a book I read years ago. It had one male human that was (petrified?) for thousands of years. The world had ridiculously huge trees and catlike people. The only bit of steel to be found was his switchblade. Think it was published in the 70s.
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In Supernatural the "Book of the Damned" Castiel managed to      retrieve his grace, although we can see that his wings are broken.   However, Castiel lost his grace before Metatron expelled all of the angels from heaven, so when all of the angels had their wings irreparably damaged, Castiel was already human?      So what happened to make his wings like that? Or was it not necessarily the drop to Earth that damaged the angels, or the spell itself that Metatron cast? Or am I just wrong in assuming his wings looked broken?
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There was a short story I read as a kid (between 2007 and 2009) about a world where people were raised from a young age with a microchip implanted in their skull which was trained over time to simulate the brain.  At some age, they would have their flesh brain tossed out in favor of the chip. But a month before the surgery, the chip would be set out of sync mode (so that it wasn't being corrected anymore based on how the flesh brain behaved).  Well, in this short story, the chip is set out of sync mode and this teenage kid then starts to realize that he can't control his actions. It starts with him disagreeing with his own choice of what fruit to buy at the supermarket.  So basically, the kid we listen to across the story is the consciousness that resides on the chip. He realizes this.  Then the surgery happens and the flesh brain is removed, and the chip is put in control.  Anyway, I don't remember the ending, but I remember I loved the story and it scared the hell out of me as a kid.  Existential, psychological terror is probably the best way to describe it.  Do you know what book has this story in it? Do you know what story this is?   Internet searches come up with nothing. I'm searching my house because I swear I don't remember tossing out this book.