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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 February 2011 02:43:38PM *  6 points [-]

Harry got the note from himself at around 3:10pm. He left for lunch with Professor Quirrell in the late morning, went back in time, went to Azkaban, went back in time again to Mary's Room, and was grabbed by Dumbledore and rescued at around lunchtime. Those two time-loops did not intersect; they are separate time-loops.

Comment author: TobyBartels 05 February 2011 05:38:02AM 4 points [-]

So not only did they break into the most heavily guarded prison ever, not only did they break out the[*] most dangerous criminal known to be still alive, not only did they get away with it all to boot, but they did it BEFORE LUNCH!

[*] (assuming that MoR!Voldemort already killed Grindelwald)

(OK, I know, they had plenty of time in their own personal timelines to eat lunch. And they didn't finish until after lunchtime. But still.)