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

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Comment author: APMason 29 March 2012 08:11:18PM 4 points [-]

Why did Voldemort ever need the Death Eaters? He should have just stolen a few Time-Turners from the ministry. No-one could have resisted an attack by an army of Voldemort clones, super-coordinated by virtue of half the clones remembering being the other half a few hours ago.

The Ministry has access to Time-Turners too. Really, once both sides are using them they'd just have the effect of making battles much, much more awesome.

Comment author: DanArmak 31 March 2012 01:51:26PM 0 points [-]

And you think that's keeping either side from escalating first, similar to not using Muggle weapons?

The Wizarding War is depicted as a limited conflict in canon, IIRC, and certainly in MoR. So you have a good theory. Voldemort was known for his tactical genius, presumably he found ways to escalate that couldn't be so easily duplicated by the enemy.