Alsadius comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alsadius 23 March 2012 05:06:20PM 3 points [-]

Your plan basically relies on stripping your country of one of its most powerful weapons and then having the leaders of your country thank you for it. Good freaking luck.

Comment author: Dentin 23 March 2012 07:36:48PM 1 point [-]

(You mean like how the USA was stripped of multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons and how pretty much everyone was happy about it?)

My intent was that he should present it as an already accomplished fact. The alliance with the dementors was an uneasy one at best, something to be tolerated because there were no good solutions. This changes that - the alliance is broken, and there is a good solution.

Comment author: glumph 23 March 2012 11:52:51PM 3 points [-]

In canon, at least, the Fudge/Umbridge faction of the Ministry embrace the alliance pretty wholeheartedly:

"Voldemort has returned," Dumbledore repeated. "If you accept that fact straightaway, Fudge, and take the necessary measures, we may still be able to save the situation. The first and most essential step is to remove Azkaban from the control of the dementors—"

"Preposterous!" shouted Fudge again. "Remove the dementors? I'd be kicked out of office for suggesting it! Half of us only feel safe in our beds at night because we know the dementors are standing guard at Azkaban!" (GoF Ch 36)

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