Benquo comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 23, chapter 94 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benquo 08 July 2013 09:09:51PM *  0 points [-]

Misdirection?

Although that is evidence against Ringmione.

Comment author: jkaufman 08 July 2013 09:12:14PM 0 points [-]

Misdirecting Flitwick by pretending that he's transfigured a whole ring instead of a partial one? But it would be much less suspicious just to get out of bed, given that what he'd want to hide would be that the ring was transfigured at all.

Comment author: Benquo 08 July 2013 09:24:30PM 0 points [-]

I was thinking, to leave a false clue that Hermione's body was hidden either in the bed or on his person.

Comment author: jkaufman 09 July 2013 02:52:05AM 0 points [-]

Except he wants to give the impression that he doesn't know anything about the body's disappearance and it's entirely someone else's work.

Comment author: Benquo 09 July 2013 04:35:51AM 1 point [-]

The more leads Dumbledore pursues that turn out to be false, the less likely it will seem that any future lead is true.

Kind of like how "Santa Clause" told Harry that Dumbledore would take away his cloak, so that when Dumbledore didn't, Harry trusted him more than before the suspicion.