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

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Comment author: MathiasZaman 30 January 2015 06:24:44PM 0 points [-]

But, if the whole of Hogwarts stops playing altogether, perhaps because the school has been destroyed, then technically they have stopped playing with a

Harry's wish was for quidditch to be played without a snitch. Not playing quidditch doesn't fulfill the wish.

Comment author: AnthonyC 02 February 2015 10:36:28PM 0 points [-]

Is the present king of France bald? I'm not sure where Quirrell and Harry stand on the truth of vacuous statements- if Hogwarts plays zero games of quidditch, all of them do not involve the snitch.

Also, technically Harry wished that "in Hogwarts we should play quidditch without the Snitch." Should can mean "will" but it can also mean Quirrell will somehow make it a moral fact that quidditch should be played that way, not a factual matter of actually playing that way.

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