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

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Comment author: wedrifid 28 March 2012 01:04:53PM 2 points [-]

Why, for the love of wisdom, scare him in public?

Better than scaring him in a dark alley. At least he'll have time to think through his reaction.

Far more important than not scaring Malfoy in public is not insulting him in public. Public scaring isn't too much of an issue unless the nature of the scare is also insulting.

Comment author: bogdanb 28 March 2012 09:14:49PM *  5 points [-]

Why, for the love of wisdom, scare him in public?

Better than scaring him in a dark alley. At least he'll have time to think through his reaction.

Also, he scared pretty much the entire Wizengamot (plus a Dementor!), not just Lucius. “I scared him, and people know why” is different than “I scared him, and people know it”. [ETA:] It’s no loss of face to be scared by someone who more or less scared everyone else.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 March 2012 01:10:57PM 3 points [-]

I think that being pushed into showing fear is something like an insult, especially if anyone twits him about it.

Comment author: Alejandro1 28 March 2012 05:01:09PM 4 points [-]

I read that at first as "if anybody tweets him about it" and spent some moments pondering the possibility of a magical Twitter (functioning by owl post, of course).

Comment author: pedanterrific 28 March 2012 05:19:45PM 15 points [-]

So, Hooter?