taelor comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 20, chapter 90 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taelor 03 July 2013 08:28:08AM 7 points [-]

My other candidate for the intermittent one is Time Turned people, but since several students have Time Turners I'm guessing the twins would figure it out eventually. More likely, it just shows the 'current' version of the person.

Bear in mind that the official explanation is that Time Turners are used to treat "Spontaneous Duplication". If the map showed multiple copies of a Spontaneous Duplication-sufferer running around, that might be dismissed as a feature, not a bug.

Comment author: tondwalkar 04 July 2013 03:33:39AM *  1 point [-]

I think "Spontaneous Duplication" is made-up by Minerva or someone as an explaination to wave off anyone who might see mulitple Harrys running around due to the time turner.

Comment author: Velorien 04 July 2013 12:03:34PM 0 points [-]

Somehow, I am unable to imagine Minerva flat-out lying to a student about an academic fact such as the existence/symptoms of a disease, certainly not without something truly staggering being at stake.

Comment author: tondwalkar 08 July 2013 05:09:16PM 1 point [-]

I think it sounds the way an official lie would sound, and afaik the consequences of botched time travel are truly staggering.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 08 July 2013 09:19:33PM *  0 points [-]

They start with "the Scotland Crater" and go up from there.

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