MartinB comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 5 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MartinB 15 November 2010 09:55:28PM 2 points [-]

half giant

wonder how his parents managed that

Comment author: shokwave 16 November 2010 09:28:52AM 2 points [-]

Magic!

Comment author: TheOtherDave 15 November 2010 10:07:28PM 0 points [-]

Presumably, the same way porcupines have sex.

Comment author: MartinB 16 November 2010 07:45:27AM 0 points [-]

Porcupines have the same dimensions in the important parts. Giants and humans might not.

Comment author: arundelo 16 November 2010 01:21:40PM *  4 points [-]

TheOtherDave was alluding to a joke that goes like this:

Q: How do porcupines have sex?
A: Very carefully.

Comment author: MartinB 16 November 2010 01:37:39PM 1 point [-]

My answer makes sense even if I knew the joke. Which I do. Was it ever addressed in canon? How tall are the Giants?

Comment author: Alicorn 16 November 2010 02:09:43PM 1 point [-]

Something like twenty feet tall, if I remember right.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 28 November 2010 10:46:10PM 0 points [-]

I thought it was more like fifty feet, but I checked my copy of OotP and you're right.

Comment author: MartinB 16 November 2010 03:32:21PM 0 points [-]

Ah, I had a totally wrong mental image. In many movies giants are like: bigger.

[I happen to be about 2 meters (6 and a half feet for the non-metric users), so maybe I need more size to perceive someone as a giant.]

Comment author: Pavitra 20 November 2010 03:38:06AM 3 points [-]

He's human on his dad's side and giant on his mum's, rather than vice versa. I imagine that made things easier.