brilee comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 13, chapter 81 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: brilee 28 March 2012 03:54:59AM 18 points [-]

After this chapter, a lot of people are going to deduce that Harry was in fact the person who broke out Bellatrix. Including, probably Dumbledore.

Quirrell will likely be forced to show his hand when Dumbledore accuses him of having engineered the escape. Somehow, this turns into Quirrell leaving his post. End of story seems imminent :(

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 28 March 2012 06:25:41AM 15 points [-]

No. Mind the Conservation of Detail.

Harry doesn't know that Dumbledore's patronus recognizes Harry's patronus. This is a trap EY has laid for Harry.

For no internal reasons, but for story reasons, Dumbledore will not figure out that Harry was in Axkaban until the next time both he and Harry have their patronuses up at the same time. It is set up to be a shocking reveal, maybe a cliffhanger.

Comment author: thelittledoctor 28 March 2012 04:13:28AM 1 point [-]

Yes, Dumbledore's icy glare at the end seems to imply that he figured it out.

Comment author: Anubhav 28 March 2012 07:36:05AM 17 points [-]

Or just that he's pissed with Harry for putting himself in Malfoy's debt.

Or for painting a giant bulls-eye on himself.

The icy glare could really mean anything.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 31 March 2012 01:37:24PM 3 points [-]

OR for doing a stupidly flashy solution when an easier one was available, which he will now berate harry about in the next chapter....