wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 30 August 2010 12:40:36AM 2 points [-]

Really? I'm surprised that that ship is that rare. It always struck me as one of the more plausible ones. This seems to reflect a general pattern that whatever makes ships common is not very correlated with their plausibility.

Comment author: wedrifid 30 August 2010 06:09:15AM 1 point [-]

Really? I'm surprised that that ship is that rare. It always struck me as one of the more plausible ones.

It does. None of the four possible combinations of Pettigrew, Black and Lupin seems remotely unlikely. The fact that in the Sirrius-Pettigrew case one of them killed the other doesn't particularly reduce the plausibility either (in the real world or in fiction!)

Comment author: Document 26 January 2011 06:27:35AM 0 points [-]

one of them killed the other

I assume you mean in MoR rather than canon?

Comment author: wedrifid 26 January 2011 11:25:27AM 0 points [-]

No. Reconstructing from what I wrote way back then I seem to be referring to the fact that it is not unusual for lovers of any kind to kill each other.

Comment author: gwern 26 January 2011 03:34:31PM 4 points [-]

"If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship."

--François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes 72