JoshuaZ comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 29 May 2010 08:10:21PM 2 points [-]

Are we talking about the same scenes? Harry gets a hold of the Resurrection Stone and talks to his dead friends and relatives before the encounter with Volemort where he lets Voldemort kill him. That's not a near death experience, that's Harry walking along and talking to their forms. Then he has his confrontation with Voldemort. The only near death experience is after that, where Harry has his conversation with Dumbledore.

Comment author: rwallace 30 May 2010 03:35:14AM 0 points [-]

Oops! indeed we weren't talking about the same scenes, I thought you were talking about the conversation with Dumbledore. My memory of the resurrection stone scene is fuzzier, I thought it was understood to be just an illusion, but now I can't be certain whether Harry thought of it that way, or just me.