VAuroch comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, January 2015, chapter 103 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: solipsist 29 January 2015 02:03:58AM *  66 points [-]

Confirmation the prophecy isn't about Neville:

Neville Longbottom... who took this test in the Longbottom home... received a grade of Outstanding.

        

Harry raised the parchment with its EE+, still silent.

The Defense Professor smiled, and it went all the way to those tired eyes.

"It is the same grade... that I received in my own first year."

AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL

Comment author: VAuroch 29 January 2015 09:49:04AM 14 points [-]

As was first proposed on /r/rational (and EY has confirmed that he got the idea from that proposal)

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 29 January 2015 11:17:20AM 1 point [-]

Link(s)?

Comment author: MathiasZaman 29 January 2015 12:23:19PM 17 points [-]

Here was the original thread proposing this as a solution to the prophecy and here is the comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky confirming to be influenced by that thread.

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