JoshuaZ comments on HPMoR: What do you think you know? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 24 October 2011 04:04:58PM *  3 points [-]

a) We're told that Harry should have noticed something off about the story, but he didn't (simplest thing he should have noticed is: how the hell do people know what Voldemort tried to do, if there were no living witnesses)

b) Avada Kedavra normally leaves no mark on the victim. Whatever was done on Harry left a lightning-shaped scar.

c) Avada Kedavra kills anything with a brain and never rebounds. This time it's supposed to have failed to kill Harry and to have rebounded onto Voldemort.

Were you aware, at the time you made the prediction, that

  1. all of these things were true in canon, and
  2. Voldemort intended to kill Harry in canon?
Comment author: JoshuaZ 24 October 2011 04:18:54PM *  0 points [-]

Minor nitpick, although Avada Kedavra is used in canon to kill non-humans I don' think t "anything with a brain" is ever specified in canon.

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