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

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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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