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

6 Post author: bogdanb 27 March 2012 06:07PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 March 2012 06:41:15PM 15 points [-]

In fairness, circulating air in a castle whose geometry is best represented by an arbitrarily connected graph (not necessarily acyclic), is a non-trivial engineering challenge. After a few student asphyxiated, they may just have gone a little overboard.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 March 2012 10:22:59PM 13 points [-]

I now declare this to be MoR!canon. (That large magical dwellings in general have large highly-connected, possibly magical air-ducts, by tradition, to prevent the occasional cases where somebody asphyxiated; and that Salazar used this as his excuse for why Hogwarts's ventilation ducts had to be so large.)

Comment author: pedanterrific 28 March 2012 07:07:23PM 8 points [-]

Aguamenti creates water out of nothing, which you can drink. The Bubble-Head Charm could, in theory, work some way other than creating thin air out of thin air, but personally I doubt it does.

Comment author: thomblake 29 March 2012 09:56:53PM 0 points [-]

creating thin air out of thin air

Ha!

Comment author: pedanterrific 29 March 2012 10:03:27PM 0 points [-]

I initially wrote 'create breathable air out of thin air' and then couldn't resist.

Comment author: thelittledoctor 28 March 2012 08:10:29PM 1 point [-]

I never, in Canon, got quite such an impression of Eerie Alien Geometries from the castle as I do in MoR. Thankfully Event Horizon hadn't come out in 1991, or I'd wager a lot of Muggleborns would be very uncomfortable in the upper floors.