Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality wrap party

As some of you may know, the fanfic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (http://hpmor.com/) is finally drawing to a close, with Yudkowsky posting a chapter a day until March 14 (international Pi day).

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HPMOR is more or less a recruitment tool for LessWrong, intending to teach some of the rationality techniques and discuss transhumanist themes. But it got quite a bit bigger than that. It's now the most-reviewed, possibly best-known (after My Immortal?) Harry Potter fanfic on the internet. It also happens to be a pretty awesome piece of fiction. Personally, for the last few days, I've been at the edge of my seat waiting for the next chapter.

On Pi day, there's going to be wrap parties all over the world (https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zM6vHrBQ_qyQ.k5gSZp9wAO_Q). Coincidentally, that's the second Saturday of the month, the date where LessWrong Brussels would have a meetup anyway. Now, LW Brussels is very small as LW groups go, and not all of us are even into HPMOR. So while I would very much like to do something to celebrate the wrap up, I'm not sure what, when, where or with whom.

I have contacted local Harry Potter fan clubs to see if there's any interest in the fic outside the LessWrong sphere. Possibly we could do some kind of joint celebration. This could be right after the meetup, or instead of the meetup, or in the week-end. (To consider: in this time zone, the last chapter comes out at 5pm and will be about 10,000 words long.) I'm not really the party type, but this is not the occasion for the usual dryness of a LW Brussels meetup. Possibly games and so forth. I do still have a prototype game for Harry Potter storytelling I would like to try out. Possibly cosplay. La Fleur En Papier Doré is probably not the ideal location either.

Everything very much depends on how many people will be there and what they want out of this. If you're interested, please respond ASAP and we'll figure something out together.

About HPMOR:
>Main website: http://hpmor.com/
>Audio version: http://hpmorpodcast.com/
>TVTropes page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality

>Point of departure: Petunia marries a physics professor. Harry grows up a child prodigy in a loving family. Now Rationalist!Harry enters the wizarding world armed with Enlightenment ideals and the experimental spirit.
>Covers Harry's first year in Hogwarts, including most canon events. Just... A LOT more things happen in that time-frame. By the time the fanfic ends, I'm not sure what will be left of the HP world as we know it.

>Currently clocks in at over 6 million words, which is about six times the length of the entire Harry Potter septology. Worth every word.
>Like all long-running works, it gets better over time. Though you should probably give up if you still don't like it after chapter 5.

>Attempts to be a "rationalfic", i.e. one in which the world is coherent and every character acts for reasons that make sense from their perspective, not just to serve the plot. The major characters also tend to be frightfully intelligent. More explanations on http://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/writing/
>Also tries to teach useful lessons about how the human mind works, drawing in part from the material at http://lesswrong.com/
>Started the genre of rationalfics, as seen on http://www.reddit.com/r/rational/ and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RationalFic