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Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever?

2025-07-21 · Short · Ali · recording, 2:20 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books and reading · mode: Review and recommendation

In a Short, Ali tells Harry Potter fans to read the free fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, the best Harry Potter book he has ever read, and to go in blind, avoiding spoilers.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — A public service announcement for Harry Potter fans: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  • ★★★ Ali, a massive Harry Potter fan, calls the fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality the best Harry Potter book he has ever read. — 00:00:00 · Harry Potter (book series)

    “this is like the best Harry Potter book I have ever read.”

  • ★★ Ali says he has been addicted to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality for about the last three weeks and has gushed about it to all his friends who enjoy Harry Potter. — 00:00:00 · Harry Potter (book series)

  • ★★ Ali used to think fan fiction was just random romance smut, but Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality changed his view. — 00:00:00 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is about 600,000 words long, Ali says. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is free, at hpmor.com as Ali recalls it, because all Harry Potter fan fiction is free: it cannot be charged for. (hedged) — 00:00:29 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ The fan community made a proper audiobook of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, with voice actors and background music, Ali says. — 00:00:29 · Harry Potter (book series)

00:00:58 — What the story is about

  • ★★ In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Aunt Petunia marries an Oxford science professor instead of Vernon Dursley, so Harry grows up reading science, history and philosophy and arrives at Hogwarts a mega nerd. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Ali finds the emotional issues of Harry in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, who has few friends and does not know how to relate to normal people, absolutely brilliant. — 00:00:58

00:01:27 — No affiliation; download it, avoid spoilers, send him a DM

  • ★ Ali says he has no affiliation with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and no one makes money from it. — 00:01:27 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Ali tells Harry Potter fans who have not read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality to drop whatever they are doing and download it: put the EPUB on a Kindle or read it online. — 00:01:27 · Kindle, Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Ali advises going into Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality completely blind, avoiding all spoilers, not even looking at the chapter titles on its website. — 00:01:57 · Harry Potter (book series)

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Central: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Also: fan fiction · Harry Potter (book series) · Harry Potter (character, “Harry Potter”) · Kindle

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