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

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 September 2011 02:18:09AM *  4 points [-]

Mr Hat-and-Cloak is Future Harry, and he's meddling with everything to prevent First Harry from going Dark.

This would seem to indicated that something happened to Harry from the past-future that caused him to lose about 80 IQ points or possibly most of the details of his memory. He doesn't strike me as incredibly brilliant or astoundingly well informed.

Comment author: gwern 09 September 2011 02:52:04AM 0 points [-]

Quirrel is a much more plausible time-traveling Harry. (Still not that great though.)