taw comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 03 September 2010 03:59:31AM 2 points [-]

There's also the power behind the throne. Cardinal Richelieu was definitely a Slytherin.

Well yes he was. But he never organized a circle of Slytherins to permanently take over France.

And don't forget how unsuccessful were Machiavelli - model of everything that is Slytherin.

How about the Vedic castes of India? Brāhmaṇa = Ravenclaw, Kṣatriya = Gryffindor, Vaiśya (later Śūdra) = Hufflepuff. Nobody admits to being a Slytherin, which is suspicious, don't you think?

Brits were playing Indians against each other extremely successfully. They took over India before anybody even noticed.

Comment author: TobyBartels 03 September 2010 09:00:51PM 1 point [-]

Brits

That's a much later time period than Vedic society, but I like it all the same.

Comment author: taw 04 September 2010 03:26:26AM 0 points [-]

That's a much later time period than Vedic society

I didn't realize we cared about such minor issues in a thread that involved analogies between Hogwarts houses and Communist revolutionary factions ;-)