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

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Comment author: pedanterrific 26 March 2012 08:09:41AM *  5 points [-]

Actually, that's even better- we have a known mechanism by which (something that could be hooked up to) the Hogwarts wards can read minds to determine names. So it actually doesn't require some extraneous piece of paper or database or whatever, but on the other hand would only work on people who've been Sorted.

Comment author: glumph 26 March 2012 06:03:59PM 3 points [-]

So no foreign professors!

Comment author: AspiringKnitter 27 March 2012 07:34:49AM 0 points [-]

I couldn't swear to it, but I thought the map showed Krum in GoF.

Comment author: glumph 27 March 2012 07:23:16PM 1 point [-]

It's not clear. When Crouch is confessing everything under Veritaserum, he says that he saw his father entering the grounds on the Map, and so headed into the grounds to intercept him. He says something along the lines of "Then Potter came, and Krum", and it's ambiguous as to whether he sees them appear on the Map or if he sees them him person.