Misha comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 14, chapter 82 - Less Wrong
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No, it's a set of premises which happen not to be true in the real world. Logic consists of starting with a set of premises and making conclusions. Obviously Harry Potter is going to arrive at different conclusions about his world, than we will arrive at about ours. That doesn't mean that he is using a special kind of logic called "magic-logic".