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

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Comment author: NihilCredo 26 September 2010 10:40:23PM *  8 points [-]

Update Scanner reports: Chapter 1 has been edited so that Petunia recounts that she was ugly and Lily's potion improved her skin and curves, but no longer mentions having been fat nor losing weight thanks to the potion. As a secondary change, possibly unrelated, Prof. Verres is also more tender towards his wife, an improvement on his characterisation.

My working hypothesis is that Eliezer is going to set up some rules about what potions can do (possibly just Polyjuice and variants), which could not be reconciled with sudden weight loss.

Comment author: NihilCredo 01 October 2010 09:40:06AM *  2 points [-]

Another one now, chapter 3, when Harry sees Quirrell for the first time:

"I had the strangest feeling that I knew him..." Harry rubbed his forehead. "And that I shouldn't ought to shake his hand." Like meeting someone who had been a friend, once, before something went drastically wrong... that wasn't really it at all, but Harry couldn't find words.