Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3

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Update: This post has also been superseded - new comments belong in the latest thread.

The second thread has now also exceeded 500 comments, so after 42 chapters of MoR it's time for a new thread.

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Update: This post has also been superseded - new comments belong in the latest thread.

The second thread has now also exceeded 500 comments, so after 42 chapters of MoR it's time for a new thread.

From the first thread:

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Mad-Eye/Crouch demonstrated Avada Kedavra on a spider in Book 4, and nobody had a problem with that (besides some of the students, who were appropriately shocked). I assumed that this is how Quirrelmort will teach it here.

Incidentally, he also (next chapter) demonstrated Imperio on students, teaching them to overcome it. He got (or so he claimed) permission from Dumbledore for this, although I don't know why Dumbledore had the authority to give such permission. He also gave them the opportunity to leave first, but taunted them so that they wouldn't.

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Here I was thinking he would students with detention run back and forth across the quidditch pitch, like those ducks in the side show shooting ranges. Put them way over the other side of the field to give them a fighting chance. It should only be the slow and uncoordinated ones that can't dodge in time... what use would Quirrelmort have for dead weight like that?

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