In the books it is mentioned many times that Harry has to live at the Dursleys' because of the protection charm but was all the hardship he went through during his years of living with them necessary as well? In the HBP, Dumbledore clearly criticizes the Dursleys for how they treated Harry but why didn't he try to modify their memories to really forget about Harry's true identity and maybe love him as a nephew?
‘[...][Harry'll] be famous – a legend – I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in future – there will be books written about Harry – every child in our world will know his name!’   ‘Exactly,’ said Dumbledore, looking very seriously over the top of his half-moon glasses. ‘It would be enough to turn any boy’s head. Famous before he can walk and talk! Famous for something he won’t even remember! Can’t you see how much better off he’ll be, growing up away from all that until he’s ready to take it?’   Philosopher's Stone - pages 15 - 16 - chapter one, The Boy Who Lived   Did Dumbledore choose correctly?  Knowing what we do about Harry and his canon character attributes (And faults, too!), was Harry really better off enduring eleven years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the Dursleys than eleven years of celebrity and fame in the wizarding world? I'm sure we've all read about child celebrities who have done well handling fame, and some who have not fared so gracefully.   Would Harry have endured celebrity as stoically as he did the Dursleys' abuse? Did Dumbledore make the right choice in leaving Harry with the Dursleys instead of letting him grow up in the wizarding world?  Was Harry really better off?  ETA: I'm looking for an answer grounded in Harry Potter canon and written in the spirit of canon. Please do not pair Harry with Elle Fanning or opine that he's secretly an American ;) Thanks!
Why does adding a new value to list overwrite previous values in the list Can you play a Progress Card even when you get nothing from it? If I have a Progress Card for which initial preconditions do not hold, will I still be able to use it in order to discard it back to the pile? The goal is to prevent a spy from stealing it.  A few examples:   I am leading in victory points but I want to use Wedding card. I have Irrigation but I don't have any wheat hexagons. I have Blacksmith but I don't have any ore hexagons. Synaptics driver doesn't load sometimes What is the name of this Ubuntu program? A couple month ago I installed a bunch of clipboard manager programs in Ubuntu, tried them out and then removed them. I must have missed one of these and now it keeps bug me in my daily usage. I need some help to identify the name of this program because the program itself provides very limited information.  This clipboard program has below characteristics: 1. It occupies hotkey Ctrl+;. When I press this hotkey, the clipboard history will pop out. It happens in bash, Chrome, Eclipse IDE, and etc, wherever it is text inputable. This is kind of annoying because it overrides my other hotkeys inside these applications. 2. Very laconic UI. Like below picture, with only a line "Select to paste", then listing out the clipboard history. There is no program information whatsoever. Right clicking on it and no menu are shown at all.      So far I have tried below ways to identify this program: 1. Browse system monitor for processes with names that could be correlated. 2. Browse through my installation log (dpkg.log) to find my installation history. Without luck, the log is lost. But I was not successful. I have an unusual problem with Chrome when I try to open PDFs. If I have already downloaded a PDF and try to download it again, I can open it by tapping its name; in the screenshot below, I could tap "pdf.pdf" to open the file.   The issue is that tapping this link actually opens RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic! If I choose to download again, Chrome redownloads and opens the PDF correctly, so it's not a huge issue, but still an inconvenience.  In Settings, it says that RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic has no defaults, and I am unable to change the "open supported links" setting.    How do I stop RollerCoaster Tycoon  trying to be a PDF reader? Which tool for fixing wobbly crank? Any idea what kind of tool should I but to fix the loose left crank on my bike? I found this  but not sure if it's gonna suit. Or is it enough to buy only nut driver? Test the convergence of the series For $a&gt;0$, test the convergence of the infinite series: $$\sum a^{\ln(n)}$$ Which test should be better to use here? I tried the D'Alembert's ratio test. $$\lim_{n\to \infty} {\frac{a^{\ln(n)}}{a^{\ln(n+1)}}}= \lim_{n\to \infty}a^{ln{\frac{n}{n+1}}}=a^0=1$$ So the test failed.  UPDATE: I observed that $${a^{\ln(n)}}=e^{{\ln(a)}{\ln(n)}}={n^{\ln(a)}}={{1\over n^{ln({1\over a})}} }$$Further by test of auxiliary series $$\sum \frac{1}{n^p}$$ we know that criterion for convergence is $p&gt;1$. Here $p=ln({1\over a})$.Hence the series will be convergent when $ln(a)&lt;-1$ i.e. when $0&lt;a&lt;1/e$, since $a&gt;0$ is already given.Finally this solved my question. Sass .scss: Nesting and multiple classes? How can I make calls related to a case display in its Chatter feed? I am using the Service Console in Lightning Experience, and using the Chatter Feed component on the Case layout to display updates to the Case.  If I use the "Log a Call" Quick Action from the Chatter publisher, these calls are displayed in the Chatter feed.  This is the desired behaviour.  However, if I insert a Log a Call record related to the Case any other way - e.g. using the Developer Console, or my CTI system's custom components - the call does not display in the feed.  If I query the record, it looks exactly the same as the record that is created with the Quick Action.  It just seems that the Chatter post is never made in this situation.  I have checked my Feed Tracking settings:   Task has Enable Feed Tracking and Subject checked Case has All Related Objects checked   How can I enable calls created with a custom component (part of a CTI system) to display in the case feed? I really miss the graphical "Services" tool from older versions of Ubuntu, but I understand why it had to go. I always have terminals open anyway, so I use (because I have to now, I guess) service --status-all to see what services are running. This would be ok except that the command produces output like the following:   [ + ]  winbind  [ ? ]  wpa-ifupdown  [ - ]  x11-common   I'm guessing that those symbols mean something like listening, blocked, or stopped, but which is which? More importantly, why doesn't the man page say? Imagine a black hole that is fast-approaching its final exponential throws of Hawking evaporation. Presumably, at all points in this end process there will remain a region that identifiably remains &quot;the black hole&quot; until the the very end, as opposed to huge swarm of fundamental particles that is being radiated out from it. As the mass of the black hole descends to that of individual particles, it would seem entirely feasible that the very last fermionic Hawking radiation event available to the almost-deceased black hole could leave it with an unbalanced charge, e.g. -1, and an unbalanced spin, say 1/2. It would also have some kind of mass of course, but that aspect of the final residue could be fine-tuned to any specific value by photon emissions of arbitrary frequencies. After photon emission mass trimming, the resulting black hole residuum would reach a point where it is no longer be able to evaporate into any known particle, because there is no longer any lower-mass option available to it for removing the -1 charge and 1/2 spin. The black hole residuum will at that point be stuck, so to speak, stuck with exact charge, spin, and mass features of an electron. And so my question: Is it an electron? And if so, by equivalence, is every electrons in the universe really just a particular type of black hole that cannot evaporate any further due to the constraints of charge and spin conservation? And if so, why are charge and spin so uniquely combined in such black hole remnants, so that e.g. a remnant of -1 charge and zero spin is not permitted, at least not commonly, and the mass is forced to a very specific associated level? Is there anything in the current understanding of general relativity that would explain such a curious set of restrictions on evaporation? The full generalization of this idea would of course be that all forms of black hole evaporation are ultimately constrained in ways that correspond exactly to the Standard Model, with free fundamental particles like electrons being the only stable end states of the evaporation process. The proton would be a fascinating example of an evaporation that remains incomplete in a more profound way, with the three quarks remaining incapable of isolated existence within spacetime. The strong force, from that perspective, would in some odd sense have to be a curious unbalanced remnant of those same deeper constraints on the overall gravitational evaporation process. This may all be tautological, too! That is, since Hawking radiation is guided by the particles possible, the constraints I just mentioned may be built-in and thus entirely trivial in nature. However, something deeper in the way they work together would seem... plausible, at least? If an electron is an unbalanced black hole, then the particles given off would also be black holes, and the overall process would be not one of just particle emission, but of how black holes split at low masses. Splitting with constraints imposed by the structure of spacetime itself would be a rather different way of looking at black hole evaporation, I suspect. (final note: This is just a passing thought that I've mulled over now and then through the years. Asking it was inspired by  by Ben Crowell. I should add that I doubt very seriously that that my wild speculations above have anything to do with Wheeler's concept of geons, though.) I want to find a formula for the sum of this series using its general term. How to do it?  Series $$ S_n = \underbrace{1/3 + 2/21 + 3/91 + 4/273 + \cdots}_{n \text{ terms}} $$  General Term  $$ S_n = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \frac{i}{i^4+i^2+1} $$ How do I boot into a root shell? When booting to the graphical desktop fails we sometimes are recommended to boot into a "root shell" or to boot in "recovery mode".  How do I do that? When we eat something, after munching and swallowing a bite, we are strongly stimulated to have one more bite. What is the taste that causes this effect? I added this to /etc/crontab on a few different linux &amp; freebsd systems:  # monthly reboot: 3rd Tuesday of every month 56 07 15-21 * 2 root /sbin/shutdown -r now   I want a reboot on the 3rd TUESDAY of every month.  However, all the systems rebooted on the 3rd Wednesday of this month (the 19th).  What am I doing wrong?  Update: Thanks to Ranon's answer below, looks like the below revision will work, can anyone confirm or is there an even better way of doing it?  # monthly reboot: 3rd Tuesday of every month 56 07 15-21 * * root test $(date +\%u) -eq 2 &amp;&amp; /sbin/shutdown -r now I have a bash script that makes a cURL request and writes the output to a file called resp.txt.  I need to create an exclusive lock so that I can write to that file and not worry about multiple users running the script and editing the text file at the same time. Here is the code that I expect to lock the file, perform the request, and write to the text file: ( flock -e 200 curl 'someurl' -H 'someHeader' &gt; resp.txt ) 200&gt;/home/user/ITS/resp.txt  Is this the correct way to go about this?  My actual script is a bit longer than this, but it seems to break when I add the flock syntax to the bash script. If someone could explain how these file descriptors work and let me know if I am locking the file correctly that would be awesome! In which cases is a word, or a group of words written in italics? Is italics used in specific contexts, or it is quite normal to write words in italics? biblatex, authoryear style: In-text citations display first name initials for certain bibliography entries I try to resolve a problem, how to implement a xor gate with nand's gate.  A xor B = A'B + AB'  So, this becomes :  A xor B = A'B + AB' + AA' + BB' = A(A' + B') + B(A' + B') = (A + B)(A' + B') =   (with De Morgan apllied on the second term)  = (A + B)(AB)' = ..... ?  In this point i am blocked. If someone can help me, please. Thank you. biblatex and autonum don't work together biblatex and autonum don't seem to work together in the newest version. Consider the following MWE:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} \usepackage{autonum}  \begin{document}  \end{document}   I get the following error messages:  0 File ended while scanning use of \ettl@for@do1 0 pdflatex: \pdfmatch: repetition-operator operand invalid pdfTeX warning: pdflatex: \pdfmatch: repetition-operator operand invalid)Runaway argument?{{\blx@bibdata@i {\blx@tempb }}\blx@bibfiles \eappto \blx@tempa {\blx@xml@comme   After commenting out either biblatex or autonum, the errors disappear.