Even though Data does not need food or drink, many times it has been shown that he does consume foods and drinks. What happens to the food after digestion? Given that he was created as a "fully functional android", should we assume that he gets rid of waste in the human way? Answer I always assumed that since the food he digests is replicated it would simply recycle itself, he might even have had a mechanism for it (I recall him saying somewhere that he does have a "stomach"). I'm not sure if I got the idea from reading/hearing about it somewhere though :)

This is a book I read 40 years ago. I remember the plot but haven't a clue as to the title. A young man misses the takeoff of his trader families’s spaceship and is marooned on a planet. He has no real skills to find work and falls in with a gambler who shows him how to play a game that will provide him with enough credits to live on. After a botched robbery attempt where his benefactor is killed, he finds himself a very rich man and sets out to pursue a rumor of a FTL/Warp drive so he can be reunited with his family. Answer That sounds a lot like Starman's Quest by Robert Silverberg (more detailed description here ). The description in Wikipedia is not very helpful, but the story covers all elements of your plot recollection. The young spacer actually misses his flight on purpose after finding his twin brother who was departing the spaceship years earlier. Since he has no place in earth's society he has to make his way as an independent, which means gambling. Luckily, h...

During Dumbledore's Army training, members practice stunning and frequently hit each other. However we never see anyone being revived with Rennervate. Is this because they are too young and not powerful/well trained enough at this point for the effects to be as severe? In summary, why do Dumbledore's Army members not feel the full effects of being stunned?

Back in the old days, the TARDIS was defective. When you travelled in it, you never knew where and when you'd end up. It was only during the Third's tenure that it became possible to navigate it with any accuracy (even though it took several centuries of tinkering to get all the flaws out). So, in The Day of the Doctor , how did the First and the Second manage to be in exactly the right place at the right moment to help the others put Gallifrey away? Yes, yes, I know what the TARDIS itself has to say on the subject. I didn't always take you where you wanted to go, but I always took you where you needed to go! However, if you watch the original series, more often than not he ended up where he definitely not needed to go! So we have to take this statement of the TARDIS with a grain of salt.

The simple answer to this question would be that magical creatures are capable of using magic as an evolutionary advantage. Magical abilities are often considered to be "wondrous" and "special", but as we know, there are plenty of non-magical animals with unique characteristics like the changing of colours (the chameleon) or biological immortality ( Turritopsis dohrnii ). In other cases, both magical and non-magical animals share the same ability; for example, the lotus leaf and augurey feathers are able to repel water but only one has a magical origin. I appreciate that this question can lead to a discussion about how wizards do generally distinguish between "physical" and "magical" phenomena but since wizards don't use scientific methods like non-magical scientists, it strikes me that they would struggle to detect whether a phenomenon is "physical" or "magical" in its nature. How can they distinguish between creatures th...

This e-book was released in 2017. The 2 main characters are a boy and a girl in different worlds. There was another girl turned into a book by a magician. The boy found the book and wants to restore her back to her body. He can talk to the book. The boy can also move between different worlds. The boy started out as a teacher in a school. The school was destroyed and everyone had to leave. He later joins some rebels who wanted to kill the leader of some other race who had oppressed their world. He was skilled in traveling between worlds. He also double-crosses the rebels by aligning with the leader of the oppressors. The girl fell in love with an artist in her own world. She broke the rules because she could do something with colors. The leader of the oppressors starts to train her to be powerful. Answer As Harry said in the comments on the Question. You're looking for the Millennium Rule trilogy. The first book is Thief's Magic . Some of your details mix parts from book 1 an...

The movie I'm looking for is about a boy whose family can change into some kind of bird, but he can't. When he finally can change, he turns into a blue bird. He kinda looks like the bird in the movie Zambezia . I don’t remember a lot of the movie because it’s been an while since I saw it. At the end, there was like a big fight between the bad bird and the good bird. I’m not sure but I think he did not live with his parents, but with an elder. I saw it on TV, about 4/5 years ago. It was animated. I know it's not a lot to go on, but I hope that someone can help me find this.

Obvious comedic aspects of the cartoon show especially aside, this may be a partial explanation. Think about it: James can breathe Weezing's smog with no ill effects. Brock was able to hug a Sharpedo. And Ash has gotten trampled, tossed, smacked, singed, smothered, submerged, routed, run over, and electrocuted so often by his Pokemon he should be perpetually hospitalized! Yet these characters always seem to bounce back without serious injury. Considering [a] it is partially cartoon logic, and [b] Pokémon trainers, much like animal handlers, likely will get somewhat more sturdy and hardy from simply regularly dealing with the animals they train.... Is it at all possible that just being around a Pokémon somehow helps their trainers develop a higher resistance to that Pokémon's special abilities?

In the book, humans were in a long war with an alien race that had a slight upper hand in numbers and technology, and so were slowly losing ground. At the start of the war, Earth had cut itself off from all contact with the rest of humanity; I think this was hundreds of years before the events in the book. As the book opens, a single spaceship from Earth arrives at the human's capital world, IIRC to pick up an ambassador to travel to the alien's home world for peace negotiations. Some more plot points dredged from memory: The Earth ship had a small crew, somewhere around 4 or 5. The Earth humans had psychic powers, but galactic humans didn't. Earth had gone through a lot of social upheaval during its isolation from the rest of the galaxy. I think the aliens were telepathic (the Earth humans didn't tell the galactic ambassador about all their plans because he couldn't shield his thoughts). The ending went along these lines: After the peace mission, the aliens invade ...

Darth Vader donned his iconic suit from his defeat on Mustafar to his death on the Death Star II , a little over 20 years. Was he wearing the exact same suit that whole time? Did he have any backup suits or suits he could change into for laundry day? I'm looking for an answer in Disney canon, but Legends is useful supplementary information (an ideal answer would have both). Answer The Disney canon novel Thrawn: Alliances makes it clear Vader has more than one outfit in chapter 8: Vader would need his armor cleaned in more time-consuming detail. Fortunately, he had another full set in his quarters that he could wear while the Chimera's techs restored this one.

Ok, I remember borrowing this book from a friend back in 1993. I seem to recall the name being The Inept Adept, but I can't find anything related to this name except a piece from the 2000s that doesn't fit the description. The book was the first in a series about a socially awkward/oblivious scientist from the present that develops a method of time travel using buckyballs. He travels to the middle ages (fantasy style), and falls in with a small group led by a woman. He keeps giving them small inventions from the future (he makes soap, so the female leader doesn't have to smell how bad her men smell; he grinds glasses for one of the men who can't see well) and as a result they consider him a wizard. The only thing I can remember about the villain is that as the novel progresses, he hints that he can “hear” the book's narrator. I remember it being a cool concept. Any thoughts? Answer In Simon Hawke's Reluctant Sorcerer trilogy, fullerene (as in Buckminsterfull...

I was 12 years old in 1988 and, that year, I spent most of my savings on a large format hardcover book where the authors attempted to tell the story of mankind's expansion in the universe. They did that by taking characters, settings, technologies and plot devices from famous novels or pulps and juxtapose it with more or less random cover art. The result was extremelly well put together and -- at least to my young mind -- very convincing. Needless to say, this book has been a kind of gateway drug for me. Unfortunately, I lost this book about 15 years ago. I have no idea who were the author(s) or the editor(s). Here is what I remember: the book was written in French but I kind of remember that it was translated from the American the book measured about 30 cm x 40 cm it had one of those removable jacket that I lost quickly so I have no idea what it looked like the actual covers were blue-gray and off-white and represented a two tone space scene with no title all the art was in full c...

In Star Trek: The Original Series , does James Kirk have any named superior officers, officers who would deliver orders to him and who would expect them to be obeyed? I seem to remember the presence of admirals in the series, but my admittedly skimpy research has failed to unearth any names or character detail.

Why does Rey wear dark goggles inside a dark, poorly lit star destroyer? After all, she's using a flashlight to help her see, so wouldn't just taking off the goggles make things easier for her? Other than giving the movie suspense for about 45 seconds by not revealing Rey's identity, is there an in-universe answer for this? Answer According to the Star Wars: Force Awakens - Visual Dictionary Rey's headgear consists of a set of stormtrooper lens goggles as well as a headlamp. The film's novelisation described them as "protective" and notes that she removes them once clear of danger (e.g. once she's outside the salvage zone) One such individual clung insectlike to a dark metal wall pimpled with protruding sensors, manipulators, and other decaying mechanisms. Clad in light protective goggles with green lenses, face mask, gloves, and gray desert clothing, the busy figure was burdened with a substantial backpack. and Outside the metal caverns and at la...

I think I read somewhere there were vampires in Middle-earth. Does anyone have any knowledge of these vampires and any noteworthy events in history they were a part of? Answer Not much is known about them, but Vampires in Tolkien's mythology seem to be bat-like creatures under the service of Morgoth and Sauron. They don't play a major role in any of the stories, and seem to be quite distinct from the tuxedo-wearing Dracula archetype. It's generally assumed that Tolkien used the name simply because it evoked the idea of a "bat-monster," rather than bringing along all the common tropes of vampires, like crosses and wooden stakes. One vampire is named in Tokien's world (Thuringwethil), and Sauron took the form of a vampire at least once. While they are normally described as bat-like, they were at least somewhat humanoid, as Thuringwethil is described as a " woman of shadow" (emphasis mine). However, there is no mention of Vampires after the First Ag...

Related to this question about whether droids feel pain , I'd like to ask the inverse. In Star Wars, especially the prequel trilogy we see droids kills, maim or hurt people. In one case even meet this charming, torturous fellow: Are there any cases of droids being aware of their actions in harming others? Do any feel remorse for this? Answer Yes droids do purposely inflict pain Droids are definitely aware of this fact, multiple times we see R2D2 use his taser for nefarious purposes. Not really a Force Awakens spoiler but I'll tag it anyway: In The Force Awakens we see BB-8 tase Finn to purposely inflict pain. Yes droids can feel remorse In Attack of the Clones 3PO has his head and body separated, his head ends up attached to a battle droid. During this escapade he ends up shooting at a Jedi, after doing so he quickly follows with this line: Oh dear, I'm terribly sorry about all this. He's apologising for his actions as a battle droid this, in my opinion, shows him f...

In the earlier episodes of The Next Generation is where I noticed it, and I realise he could be inputting commands into the command terminal, but why isn't his positronic brain interfaced with the command console in that case? I can't remember the exact example but there are episodes where he goes to the computer to look things up despite having encyclopedic knowledge of everything which could be known by the computer. Any explanation? Answer Because it's complex and not a good idea. In "A Fistful of Datas" exactly that is tried. It resulted in a mix-up of Datas thoughts and ideas with the computers database almost crippling the ship. Data in turn was "infected" with gun-slinger personality-traits from a program running on the holodeck. LAFORGE: We think our interface experiment may have caused one of the computer's core subroutines to be altered. DATA: When the interface malfunction occurred, subroutine C forty seven was replaced by elements fr...

... Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it. ( Chamber of Secrets ) Now, in Harry Potter, there are real roosters; and then there are "fake" roosters (off the top of my head, at least two come to mind: A wizard having a rooster Animagus form; and conjuring a rooster the way Hermione conjured birds with Oppugno Jinx). Would the rooster that is a product of magic (like the 2 methods I listed above) be fatal to a Basilisk?

In the Twilight universe, some vampires gain no powers when they turn (you know, except for diamond-hard skin, strength enough to lift a car, regeneration, and being able to run at 100 miles per hour). On the other hand, some gain additional powers. Edward can read minds. Alice can see the future. Chelsea can manipulate people's emotional bonds. This is because the nature of vampification is to enhance the qualities that someone already has. Those humans with latent powers get full-fledged powers when they turn, whereas humans without such powers simply gain enhanced personality traits. How common are vampires with special powers? Clearly most of Carlisle's coven has such abilities, as do many of the Volturi, but is this the norm, or are powers more rare among vampirekind as a whole? Answer No Our best estimate of how common vampire powers are comes from Eclipse . In this book, Victoria, an enemy of the Cullen coven, creates an army of newborn vampires to take on the Cullens...

In humans, the younger heal faster than the elderly. Is this also the case with Transformers? Is there any evidence that younger Autobots/Decpticons heal (repair?!) quicker than their older friends? I came up with this question from this post on a discussion regarding Bumblebee's recovery after the events of the first Transformers film. Bumblebee loses his legs in the first film, and yet is completely healed in the second part. However, Jazz, doesn't quite recover from a similar fate. Also, in Revenge of The Fallen we can see that JetFire is in a really bad shape, seemingly because of his age. The link to the discussion: How did Bumblebee heal after the events of Transformers the film.

I read it a few years back. The main theme of the story was that in the deep future, man has moved onto space ships completely and evolved further to a gravity free environment, having 4 hands and no feet. Society however has massively regressed to the point where Sodom and Gomorrah would blush, but the people have no fear of a greater power or punishment in their mighty star cruiser. However stories start to spread about rival ships that were just as debauched being destroyed in horrific ways for their cruelty and perversity, which are dismissed by most, as "If the ship was destroyed utterly, who is spreading the stories?" The ship then picks up a stray castaway flashing his emergency broadcast into space. He is a quiet unassuming man and they mock him for basic decency, replacing his fluid ration with urine in front of him and proposing a toast. In the climax the man removes his face, speaking a line to the effect of, "When the universe is infinite, man must have an in...

The Star Trek: Voyager Wikipedia article says: (...) show is initially set on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy, 75,000 light-years from Earth (...) and (...) Voyager to make the estimated 75-year journey home. This is confirmed by Captain Janeway, who says in the first episode, that (I don't have access to direct quotation) "even with maximum speed, our travel home will take approximately 75 years" (unless they find some "shortcuts"). The general assumption here is, that Voyager will be travelling approximately 75 years until it reach Earth. In Warp drive Wiki article, The Next Generation onwards section it is said that: The Intrepid-class starship Voyager has a maximum sustainable cruising speed of warp 9.975. According to my calculations (correct me, if I'm wrong), 9.975 warp is around 1680 times light speed . This theoretically means, that traveling entire year with constant maximum speed would allow Voyager to pass 1680 light years, not 1000 (n...

This question is heavily inspired by this one , asked just a few hours ago, but takes a different angle. In particular, this comment by NKCampbell was what made me ask, and the inconsistency noted by Slytherincess in this answer further fuelled it. In Chamber of Secrets , when Dobby hovers and smashes Aunt Petunia’s wobbly pudding, he immediately receives a missive from Mafalda Hopkirk of the Improper Use of Magic Office that reads as follows (emphasis mine): Dear Mr Potter,     We have received intelligence that a Hover Charm was used at your place of residence this evening at twelve minutes past nine.     As you know, underage wizards are not permitted to perform spells outside school, and further spellwork on your part may lead to expulsion from said school (Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, 1875, Paragraph C) .     We would also ask you to remember that any magical activity which risks notice by members of the non-magical community (Muggles) is a serious ...

I was curious if someone knows the titles of the trilogy of a book series where a planet is inhabited by people who landed from ships from Earth after it was destroyed. On the planet there is only the metal from what was brought, and no trees and the water is toxic until people are genetically engineered to live there.

In The Hungry Earth , where Amy, Rory and The Doctor visited a drilling site a couple on the ridge waved to them. The Doctor says that that's them 10 years in the future. But if Rory and Amy are sent back to the 40's by the Weeping Angel, how could that have happened?

According to Harry Potter Wiki Xenophilius Lovegood tells his daughter " Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial! Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today -- perhaps an urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish -- do not repress it! You have have been gifted by the Gernumblies!" Does this mean garden gnome saliva is used for recreational purposes in the Wizarding World? Answer There is nothing in canon that supports gnome saliva as being used as a recreational substance (I assume you mean as in like a drug). HOWEVER! A Billiwig is an Australian magical creature whose sting causes a euphoric feeling in the body, and then levitation. Billiwig venom is used in the candy Fizzing Whizbees and some witches and wizards purposefully try and get stung by a Billiwig in order to enjoy the giddy effects. Those who have been stung by a Billywig suffer giddiness followed by levitation. Generations of young Australian witches and wizards have attempted to catch Billy...

The answers to this question have got me thinking. I can't find all the textual references, but in the time of the Dunk and Egg stories, it seems clear that any knight can knight someone else, with no religious requirements. From The Hedge Knight : “Any knight can make a knight, it is true, though it is more customary to stand a vigil and be anointed by a septon before taking your vows." But by the time of the events of A Song of Ice and Fire , there seems to be no alternative to a religious ceremony, including being anointed by a Septon. See for example this quote from an answer to the linked question: Illyrio whispered to them. "Those three are Drogo’s bloodriders, there", he said. "By the pillar is Khal Moro, with his son Rhogoro. The man with the green beard is brother to the Archon of Tyrosh, and the man behind him is Ser Jorah Mormont". The last name caught Daenerys. "A knight?". "No less". Illyrio smiled through his beard. "...

One of the reasons I would personally never get in a transporter is that there is no evidence that the Real Me isn't just vaporized and a Copy Me created at the other location. The Copy Me might have all my memories and be indistinguishable from the original, but it isn't the Real Me. I know that some early characters (especially in ST:Enterprise) had problems with transporters -- but these mostly seemed to concern safety. No one discussed the metaphysics of the technology. Was there ever proof -- or even discussion -- of the question of whether the transporter really was transporting, or just creating a heck of a good copy? Note 1: Yes, the transporter tech in ST sends the 'atoms' as well as the 'bits' to reconstruct the atoms, so it's not quite a 23rd century fax machine. But you're still being vaporized..... Note 2: And yes, I do wake up each morning wondering if I am the same person who went to sleep the previous night, thank you very much. Why do yo...

Okay, so I just watched Star Trek into Darkness and as a long-time fan of Wrath of Khan I'm a little confused by the portrayal of Khan. Okay, the actor is different and they clearly decided to take more than a few liberties with his appearance. I'm more wondering about the portrayal, not the appearance. In the original Star Trek show and in Wrath of Khan , Khan is ruthless but not unfeeling. He is passionate and he cares about his followers and loves his wife who used to be one of Capt. Kirk's crew I think. But I dunno, I guess I feel that his sense of pride and his ruthlessness combined with the kind of control and poise his super genetics give him means that he's not gonna start crying all of a sudden. Compare this to Are these two Khans really part of the same persona? They should be of course, because in theory the same two Khans from the twentieth century were woken up, it doesn't matter which timeline we're talking about. So why are they so different? A...

The spells that we know about in the Harry Potter world all seem to be either in Latin, derived from Latin, or resembling Latin. This makes sense for the European World, but there were likely witches and wizards in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. These cultures would have developed independently, and the magical people in them would likely have still found ways to cast their spells. Do cultures with languages that did not derive from Latin use the same words and phrases that are related to Latin for their spells? Or did they have other phrases based on the languages in their cultures? Answer We don't know for sure, but we know for certain that it was not necessarily Latin based Ancient Egypt has wizards long before Roman empire. Bill Weasley dealt with the consequences professionally. Ancient Greece had wizards Based on newly revealed details about Newt Scamander prequels, Native Americans had wizards and traditions, which from my understanding are separate from European ones. Ho...

I've seen movies 1-7, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Star Wars Rebels and Lego Star Wars Films. What more watchable content is there (besides fanmade youtube videos or gameplay/storyline etc) (if any) ??? Edit: Excluding stuff like robot chicken star wars, family guy, that 70s show etc. Edit 2: By watchable I mean it has to be video content i.e. not a book. Answer There are a number of TV series, TV films and Films set in the Star Wars universe that you haven't mentioned. Films TV Shows Other Stuff It's worth mentioning that there have been several other releases of related ephemera ; Non-canon There have been a number of Lego Star Wars properties that might interest you

Is Coruscant's defense strong enough to keep up against an attack from the Death Star? If Tarkin lost control or turned against the Emperor, I guess even Vader couldn't stop the leader of the battle station from doing what he wants. Ie. Qui-Gon told "I can't fight a war for you" and there must be some legions on the Death Star. Could the Death Star impose a threat to the capital of the Empire? Answer Yes. In Wedge's Gamble, there's a passage that talks about the main computer centre and says something along the lines of Rumour had it that if the Death Star had been used against Coruscant, the computer centre would have been a recognisable and salvageable piece of debris. Wedge's Gamble, p243 which suggests that the Death Stars' superlaser would overwhelm even the double shielding in place over Coruscant. As to the point about Tarkin and Vader, as I said in this answer Vader was on the Death Star precisely to prevent Tarkin from getting the idea ...

The Falcon appears to contain another copy of the Jedi sacred texts How did they come to be located on the ship? Did Obi-Wan leave it there when he was aboard? Did Han and/or Chewie pick it up at some point? Did they know what they had?

Given warp-field technology in Star Trek canon, is it possible for a non-warp ship to use the warp bubble of another (warp capable) ship to exceed light speed? A sort of nascar 'drafting' if you will. Answer Yes, you can 'ride' in the wake of a warp capable ship, despite not having a fully functional warp engine of your own. In the Enterprise episode " Unexpected ", we see a (cloaked) ship hiding within the Enterprise' warp field. At the start of the episode, they're both travelling at warp. After their discovery, the following exchange occurs; TRENA'L [OC]: I apologize for any damage we've caused. Our engines are malfunctioning and we've been using your plasma exhaust to replenish our teraphasic coils. It's allowed us to share your warp field. T'POL: Their warp reactor is offline. ARCHER: We can't help you unless we can see you, so why don't you disconnect whatever stealth device you're using. (the ship appears af...

In the early 1980s, I read a picture book about how a group of men destroyed the coven of witches that were terrorizing their town. As I remember it, the style of the illustrations was similar to that of Tomie dePaola, but none of the books he illustrated sound like what I am looking for. I do not recall what the group of witches actually did to make trouble. However, I do remember how they were destroyed. The witches were vulnerable to rainwater, or maybe any water (like the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz ). However, they were smart enough not to leave their cave when it was raining. A group of men from the town—the same number as there were witches—headed out to the cave in a downpour. Each of them carried a watertight jar with a fresh set of clothes inside, and they changed out of their wet garments and into the dry ones after they were just inside the cave. Then they headed deeper in, to where the witches were; the men told the witches that they were beautiful, and t...

I'm looking for a plot line (it should be a short story) that depicts Earth population (or their close descendants) establishing contact with another intelligent life form deep into space. After careful studying of DNA samples and language / communication symbols they then realize that the civilization in question is also from Earth but that they departed very long ago and travelled throughout the galaxy in the completely opposite direction so that they are now meeting practically at the point of the circle opposite to Earth. There might have been some anatomical differences as well. As far as I can remember, the story concludes shortly after that. This should be a work of a well-known SF author, so I'm hoping for a quick response (if time didn't corrupt my memory too much). I don't think it was part of an anthology, but it's entirely possible it was in a magazine. As for the timeline, I've read it about 2-3 years ago, but since I have a passion for older SF wor...

I’m in a Harry Potter Marauder’s-Era role-play and I’m playing Fenrir Greyback. (I’ve also not read the books/seen all the movies). I'm very loosely interpreting a specific point in canon that I’m having some adversarial feedback with my admins regarding the role of werewolves in Harry Potter . Does it say, explicitly, in the books that werewolves can’t turn outside of the Full Moon? There isn‘t much on him outside of the two books Half-blood Prince and Deathly Hallows . The common argument would use the excerpt “Fenrir positions himself near children during full moons so he knows he’ll get them” meaning that he can only turn then and nab his victims, but that could easily mean that he wants to be precise in his wolfish endeavours because he can’t control himself at that point. Getting back to my point : is there conclusive evidence to say that werewolves cannot turn outside of the moon?

I read a short story in the early 1980s, probably from the 1960s or 1970s, that began with a scientist telling his wife that he and several colleagues had figured out how a combination of simple household chemicals and loop of hot wire could destroy the whole Earth (or maybe kill everyone on Earth). The scientists take this discovery to somebody in the government, but the governmental response to the danger is inconclusive. Eventually, in order to protect the people of Earth, the protagonist and his wife decide to murder everyone else who might know the secret. They kill them all without a hitch, and the scientist, tired out, heads to bed. His wife looks once more at their sleeping infant, then kills her husband as well. Does anybody know the title and author of this story? Answer I read a short story in the early 1980s, probably from the 1960s or 1970s, "Obviously Suicide" , a short story by S. Fowler Wright , also the answer to this old question . Originally published in ...

I'd like to ask you to help me identify a sci-fi/fantasy book that I read probably sometime in the 90s though I don't know when it was written. Here are the plot points that I remember: the story starts with a human on contemporary Earth being turned to stone (or probably something much more exotic) by some sort of experiment gone wrong, he is turned back to his original form millions of years later by a lightning or some similar phenomenon, the local population considers him a god or a prophet since his "stone form" was a center of a cult before he was awaken, the population is not human but consists of creatures evolved from various contemporary animals, one of the most important locations is a huge tree which is so ridiculously big that it contains multiple settlements. Answer That's The Stone God Awakens by Philip Jose Farmer. The first review on the Amazon link I've given includes all of the elements that you mention.

It seems to be commonly accepted in discussions on this site ( viz. the first two answers to this question) that there is the magical world and there is the muggle world and there are strict boundaries between the two; that anything that muggles know about is completely non-magical. But this doesn't hold up to events as depicted in the books: wizards commonly traverse through and interact with the muggle world (The Ministry of Magic is in London – think about all the routine interactions that implies on a daily basis for all the people who walk in through the public lavatories). Wizards are born to muggle parents. The Night Bus drives on Muggle roads. It's always the case that the magical world is right under the noses of the muggles, but the muggles are just bewitched into not noticing the magical things, or rather, the magical side of things, all around them. With that in mind, we have plenty of evidence that animals in Harry Potter are not the same mundane species as we kno...

The ultimate fan-fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky covers the story of Harry Potter-Evans-Verres, who is raised by Petunia Evans-Verres and her professor husband Michael Verres-Evans. Harry goes to Hogwarts, and... (considerable subjective-time elapses)... Meets Voldemort! Throughout the book, Voldemort (having possessed a certain person who shall remain unnamed for fear of spoilers) is shown to have a dislike/distrust for other people, being contemptuous of them. With Harry listening, Voldemort details his plans to become ruler of Britain to his Death Eaters: A cold high laugh. "Ah, Mr. White, the most delinquent of my servants. I have not yet decided if you will survive your punishment. I have less need of you than I once did, Mr. White. In two days' time the Death Eaters shall walk openly. My powers have increased, and I have just this day disposed of Dumbledore." More gasps of shock arose from the Death Eaters, Voldemort paid th...

Bishop Berkeley (who, however, is not credited in the story) is known today for his idea that material things only exist because we think about them, that mind is truly more important than matter. What if he were right? In that case, discoveries about the material world might just be creative inventions of the mind, not really discoveries at all. Our increasingly complex society and technology might be nothing more than an act of the imagination. I no longer remember much about this story other than these bare bones, but the upshot is that the characters return to the simplest state of imagination. For a while, everyone and everything vanishes, and there is darkness without form. Then light dawns anew, and there is only one man, one woman, and a snake. Answer "The New Reality" , a novelette by Charles L. Harness , also my (unaccepted) answer to this old question and this one ; first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories , December 1950 , available at the Internet Archive ....