I didn't read books, but I have seen movies with Harry Potter.  I understand that he is the main character. What I don't understand is that everyone treats him as someone very important. For example, his professors are talking to him like to someone equal to them (equal status and knowledge).  There are so many kids in the university. Why everyone talks to him as some kind of super-genius?    I can't point to exact scene, since I am not that big fan. But this pattern repeats through the movies. Ok, I just remembered the scene where the white beard wizard in Halfblood prince, takes Harry to that dangerous place, to drink watter and get that watch. Why didn't he take someone else, a colleague professor, or someone powerful?
The full prophecy by Trelawney, the part my question is about in bold:     "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who  have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies ..."    – Sybill Trelawney (to Dumbledore)    I am interpreting      for neither can live while the other survives   as: Harry can't live while Voldemort survives and vice versa. But why? It clearly worked until the end of book 7. One could argue with Dumbledore's thery of the self-fulfilling prophecy. But clearly Voldemort was smart enough to see that there was no mechanism that would kill him just because Harry stayed alive.    and either must die at the hand of the other    Again: Why? If somebody else destroyed all Horcruxes and then killed Harry, Voldemort would be just as vulnerable and could be killed by anyone. On the other hand, Harry could have been killed by anyone - his mum's protection transferred to Voldemort by Harry's blood was only helping against Voldemort.  I guess that I am interpreting this part of the prophecy in the wrong way or maybe there is an alternate, less obvious and more tricky one. So my question is: What exactly does the highlighted part of Trelawney's prophecy state?
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Correlations between continuous and categorical (nominal) variables I would like to find the correlation between a continuous (dependent variable) and a categorical (nominal: gender, independent variable) variable. Continuous data is not normally distributed. Before, I had computed it using the Spearman's $\rho$. However, I have been told that it is not right.  While searching on the internet, I found that the boxplot can provide an idea about how much they are associated; however, I was looking for a quantified value such as Pearson's product moment coefficient or Spearman's $\rho$. Can you please help me on how to do this? Or, inform on which method would be appropriate?  Would Point Biserial Coefficient be the right option? JavaScript editor within Eclipse Ubuntu 14.04: very slow UI in Oracle VirtualBox Short summary: 14.04 is much slower than 12.04 even with more RAM assigned.  I'm using latest VirtualBox 4.3.10 on Mavericks 10.9.2. How can I make it faster? Moderators currently have a tool to add a Post Notice that says:     insufficient explanation       We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and   context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is   right, ideally with citations. Answers that don't include explanations   may be removed.   However, there seems to be no equivalent wording for one-line questions.  Could the wording be changed to something like below to cover both one line questions and one-line answers?     insufficient explanation       We're looking for longer posts that provide some explanation and context.          Don't just ask a one-line question; provide some background like a brief description of your research prior to asking   Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is   right, ideally with citations.          Questions and answers that don't include explanations may be removed.   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Once that wasn't there - how do you tell what version / build you are running?   This will become more of an issue as Microsoft starts releasing more builds with the new update mechanism. Why does work depend on distance? Novel about a guy who is possessed by the divine essence and the world ends? I read this novel back in the mid-80's but I'm pretty sure it was written in the 70's.  Strange things start to happen around a homeless man - like the laws of chance are changed.  The investigators discover that they can figure out what is going to happen next by interpreting the dreams/vision of the man.  One such dream is of a large body of water that is split into two pieces. Turns out that means that "C" (sea) - the speed of light has been halved.  The homeless man had become the embodiment of the creator essence. The creator was hiding, because it was tired of trying to keep the universe working and from the fight with is adversary - chaos.  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As I understand, dark matter theoretically only interacts with the gravitational force, and doesn't interact with the other three fundamental forces: weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, and electromagnetism.  Those are my understandings going in. If I'm wrong, please correct me. I've done some googling, and I haven't found anything confirming or denying that dark matter is affected by either of the fundamental nuclear forces.  So since dark matter only interacts with gravity, what causes any dark matter particle to be repelled from another? If they can pass freely through each other, and they are gravitationaly attracted to each other, why don't such particles clump together in a single 'point' in space?   It seems to me that particles occupying a single 'space' are philosophically not distinct particles, but I don't know how actual physics would play into this.  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