Bugmaster comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 109 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: WalterL 23 February 2015 08:25:36PM *  4 points [-]

Can the mirror be used to hack the Time Turner restriction? GAH!

Also, reading the letter backwards:

Is how not your face but your coherent extrapolated volition .

Comment author: Bugmaster 23 February 2015 09:01:23PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, and I am kind of surprised that neither Quirrellmort nor Harry thought of reversing the letters. I mean, we are dealing with a magical mirror here. How is this not the first thing they've tried ?

Comment author: WalterL 23 February 2015 09:07:37PM 8 points [-]

I get the feeling from Voldemort's comments and Harry's thoughts that the Letters of False Comprehension have a mind affecting power that prevents you from understanding them. I think the inversion is a joke for the readers.

Comment author: Gondolinian 23 February 2015 09:10:47PM *  0 points [-]

I assumed the inversion was because the mirror was somehow reflecting the phrase, or at least that it's some kind of artistic flair meant to suggest so.

Comment author: The_Duck 24 February 2015 05:32:21AM 1 point [-]

The inscription is not in the Latin alphabet.

Comment author: Jost 23 February 2015 09:11:49PM 1 point [-]
  • The letters are in reverse order, but not mirrored. <irony>No wonder they didn’t think of that!</irony>
  • It wouldn’t fit the narrative. (Just like it didn’t fit the narrative in canon, so nobody pointed it out there, either.)
  • Maybe the mirror has some kind of very narrow Confundus charm, that makes a person’s brain unable to process these letters? ;)
Comment author: MathMage 23 February 2015 09:20:30PM 5 points [-]

Well, yes. The False Comprehension Charm is precisely a very narrow Confundus charm that makes a person's brain unable to process these letters--by substituting a convenient, wrong, preprocessed 'answer'.

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