Alicorn comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: gjm 07 October 2010 09:12PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 03 November 2010 01:20:08PM 2 points [-]

Ron is the second-youngest child in his large family, and he's Harry's age. So most of his siblings were born during the war.

Comment author: bogdanb 16 November 2010 03:24:28PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, you’re right. I was confusing Voldemort’s war with the earlier war (the one matching WW2). I only realized the distinction when I was too far from a computer to retract the comment. That said, Ron’s family could still be just an exception. The logic still stands, it just went from “supported” to “not supported” by evidence (rather than “contradicted”).