NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 14, chapter 82 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 April 2012 01:26:35PM 0 points [-]

What about the possibility that Draco attacked Hermione with sufficient force that the blood-cooling spell was plausibly self-defense?

Comment author: Random832 04 April 2012 01:42:09PM 6 points [-]

A "blood-cooling charm" doesn't sound like it would have had enough stopping power to be effective in self-defense.

Comment author: DanArmak 04 April 2012 03:49:31PM 3 points [-]

In that case: she knew when she awakened next morning that it should have killed him. If she had known that the night before, then after disabling Draco with the charm, she should alerted a teacher, or maybe woken him up and stunned him the usual way. If she didn't do any of that, she was knowingly leaving him to die.