Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 8 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 August 2011 08:47:57PM 6 points [-]

"It would be silly if anyone could win the whole war at any time just by owling him a hand grenade," Harry thinks in Ch. 37. A Fate Zero style conflict between a sane and a non-sane wizard ends very quickly, and if two sane wizards ever fight each other...

Comment author: Raemon 26 August 2011 01:38:10AM 6 points [-]

I sort of assumed that's what we were expecting in the eventual Harry/Quirrel showdown...

Comment author: Sheaman3773 04 September 2011 04:09:36PM *  1 point [-]

Rowling said somewhere in an interview that there were ways of making yourself impossible for an owl to find; whether this is a blanket affect or could be lifted for select targets is unclear. Otherwise, the Aurors could have just owled the Death Eaters something and then followed the owl to their hiding spaces.