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

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Comment author: FAWS 14 April 2012 07:47:03AM 1 point [-]

That would only have changed if the year he started Hogwarts changed, which it did not. The birth date didn't change by a whole year, just from late enough in 1926 to enter Hogwarts in 1938 to early enough in 1927 to enter Hogwarts in that same year.

Comment author: pedanterrific 14 April 2012 07:56:34AM 0 points [-]

Yes. Exactly. That's my point.

(Not sure why you said this.)

Comment author: FAWS 14 April 2012 08:37:30AM 0 points [-]

(I lost track of what you were trying to argue, and the comment in isolation seemed to suggest that the non-trivial change had happened. A clause like "so the fact that this was carefully kept constant is evidence in favor of ..." would have helped. )