thomblake comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: FAWS 11 April 2012 03:39AM

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Comment author: gwern 13 April 2012 05:03:31PM 9 points [-]

A question not on the latest chapter but ch4:

McGonagall shook her head. "Your father was the last heir of an old family, Mr. Potter. It's also possible..." McGonagall hesitated. "Some of this money may be from bounties that had been placed on You-Know-Who, payable to his ki-" McGonagall swallowed the word. "To whoever might defeat him. Or those bounties might not have been collected yet. I'm not sure."

Did we ever find out whether the bounties were collected? I was wondering whether 40k Galleons was a reasonable sum for last heir of ancient family + entire wizarding world's bounties on Voldemort, but I can't remember the question ever being answered in the first place.

Comment author: thomblake 13 April 2012 06:06:06PM 2 points [-]

Did we ever find out whether the bounties were collected?

No.

It's still possible he's got some money down the pipe.

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 14 April 2012 04:40:39AM 1 point [-]

Or that the unpaid bounties were put up by people who now believe Voldemort to have returned.