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

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Comment author: wedrifid 06 September 2010 12:11:49PM *  3 points [-]

Oh yes, I was talking about canon; IIRC Lily Potter, or any non-Death Eater, doesn't attempt AK there, does she?

Not that I recall. Mad Eye AKed a spider but technically that was a death eater impersonating Mad Eye. (Although nobody, not even Dumbledore, seemed to blink when Mad-Eye was AKing arachnids. That suggests that people within canon!verse do not all believe that casting AK means you are actually evil.)

Comment author: CronoDAS 07 September 2010 07:05:12PM 3 points [-]

Fake!Mad-Eye also told the class that actually casting the Killing Curse was extremely difficult and that none of them would be able to do it.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 September 2010 05:07:08AM 4 points [-]

Fake!Mad-Eye also told the class that actually casting the Killing Curse was extremely difficult and that none of them would be able to do it.

That kind of claim was usually the prompt for Harry or Hermione to pull it off a couple of chapters later. ;)

Comment author: magfrump 07 September 2010 06:52:59PM 2 points [-]

Or squishing spiders requires less evil than squishing people.