pedanterrific comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 12 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 25 March 2012 09:24:10PM *  10 points [-]

Is this your inference? When I read that chapter, I immediately googled it and 'polyfluis' to see what it did, but only turned up MoR.

Well, that's the obvious implication of

The round-faced first-year girl stood facing the remaining two bullies with one hand cocked on her hip.

Grinning.

And surrounded by faceted blue haze.

"Polyjuice!" spat the bully-girl.

"Polyfluis Reverso!" roared the remaining boy bully.

Something like the form of a mirrored scarf spat out of his wand -

Passed without resistance through the haze surrounding Susan -

For an instant, she glowed in a strange mirror-color, like a reflection of herself -

And then the glow faded.

The young girl still stood there, hand on her hip.

"Wrong," said Susan.

Comment author: gwern 25 March 2012 09:27:10PM 3 points [-]

Ah. Should've looked harder at the other MoR hit.