Raemon comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 7 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Raemon 15 January 2011 04:49:05PM 7 points [-]

Granted, the way this was accomplished in the actual story was by Imperiusing people who were poor wizards but politically powerful, to effectively gain control of large swaths of the population with minimal effort. Which is probably a better idea in the first place.

Still, cool concept.

Comment author: benelliott 16 January 2011 11:59:03AM 4 points [-]

I'm surprised Quirrel hasn't mentioned something like that in his arguments against democracy. It's possible that rule by the strong really would be safer for wizards.

Comment author: Raemon 16 January 2011 07:19:24PM 3 points [-]

He actually did make this point to Harry.