Axel comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 19, chapter 88-89 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 30 June 2013 05:34:01AM *  5 points [-]

All he would need to do is replace Hermione with a suitably transfigured/polyjucied/magicked rat to avoid the paradox.

I would imagine that "dying-soul-magic", or whatever that was, is impossible to fake (or, at least, really dang hard to) like prophecy magic.

Comment author: Axel 01 July 2013 12:57:14PM 1 point [-]

Harry is the only one to witness the 'dying-soul-magic' and he has no idea what it is supposed to look like. Adding any sort of magical disturbance to the dying magicked!rat would have the same result from Harry's point of view.