Tenek comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 17, chapter 86 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ygert 17 December 2012 04:26:06PM 2 points [-]

Who thinks that Lockheart was in fact possessed by Voldemort? It seems unlikely given that in canon Lockheart "accomplished" these deeds in a very different way, and there is no reason why he could not have done so here as well. (By the way on Predictionbook I estimated a 15% chance, but that is starting to look to high now that I am thinking it over a bit more.)

Comment author: Tenek 17 December 2012 05:57:56PM 3 points [-]

I don't. GL's canon strategy provides a perfectly reasonable explanation for all his supposed feats, and I didn't see anything in 86 to suggest this is going to be a major divergence. I expect it'll go something like the other CoS reference - at some future point we'll get a "gee, looks like he's just a fraud, moving on" with a possible joke about him teaching Defense.