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

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Comment author: pedanterrific 23 March 2012 08:30:32PM 4 points [-]

Harry and Hermione can't be both under the Cloak at once.

They could in canon.

Comment author: DanArmak 24 March 2012 01:36:15AM *  0 points [-]

But Harry and Bella couldn't both be under the Cloak at once in Azkaban. That's why Harry had to face the Dementors after he turned off his Patronus to evade Dumbledore. So MoR!verse differs from canon here.

Edit: seems I'm wrong and the cloak is barely big enough for two children but not big enough for a child+adult. This is so in canon and presumably in MoR as well.

Comment author: pedanterrific 24 March 2012 01:49:06AM 4 points [-]

Bellatrix is forty years old. Even half-starved, she's a lot bigger than a twelve-year-old Hermione. (In canon, the Cloak got increasingly impractical for more than one person to use as time went on and the characters grew up.)

Comment author: DanArmak 24 March 2012 04:00:28AM 0 points [-]

You're right then, it's just my lack of knowledge of canon showing.