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

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 January 2011 10:08:42PM 1 point [-]

My vote is on reflexive use of magic

Okay, gotcha. I don't think that's supposed to be very reliable, though, at least not canonically.

Comment author: Sheaman3773 29 January 2011 12:49:22AM 5 points [-]

Applying Fridge Logic, I don't see how they could play a game where iron balls flew around trying to brain people without it being at least somewhat reliable.

On the other hand, Dobby's Bludger did break Harry's arm...

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 January 2011 06:58:20PM 0 points [-]

Yep, see Ch. 17.