solipsist comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 25, chapter 96 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: NancyLebovitz 25 July 2013 04:36AM

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Comment author: solipsist 26 July 2013 04:00:01PM *  2 points [-]

Though not spoken in Prophecy bold. It would be consistent for the brothers to have heard a retelling of a prophecy from before their birth. You could further fit evidence to this theory and claim that the Perevells' hearing of the prophecy caused great misfortune, and Dumbledore's wariness at bringing Harry to the Hall of Prophecy stems from this incident.

Comment author: Kindly 26 July 2013 06:57:11PM 2 points [-]

It would be a little too much, I think, for the omniscient narrator to "make a game of lying with truths".