pedanterrific comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 18, chapter 87 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 18 February 2013 05:46:13PM 1 point [-]

Quirrell's "ritual to summon Death" is a reference to the Seething Death from LWE's Ethshar novels, so it's a pretty safe bet.

Comment author: Manfred 18 February 2013 11:29:22PM 0 points [-]

Huh. Well, I'll clarify a bit to deprive myself of a win on reference: I guess that the style of hp:mor was similar enough to Watt-Evans that I was guessing that it was intentional, and as part of making it happen Eliezer had actually opened a book.

Or at least, that hypothesis is way above the base rate.