This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 110.
There is a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
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Is it just me or is that kind of a weird comparison for a good guy to make... when I think of an animal that is being sent away and, not understanding, keeps wanting to return, I see Albus feeling compassion for the animal, rather than seeing it as something to which to liken an enemy/someone whose intelligence he wants to insult.
Made me wonder if it's a real Dumbledore in there or just a conjured one that Quirrel wanted to see.
Dumbledore is human (or, at least, wizard). He hates Voldemort, who has killed thousands. He has motive to talk to him to keep him there long enough for the Fixed Instant to trap him. The temptation to spend a little of that time insulting Voldemort is too much for even his self control to resist.
Voldemort, by contrast, is just playing with him, letting him waste time till he won't be able to cancel the Fixed Instant, such that when Voldemort grabs the True Cloak of Invisibility Dumbledore will have no choice but to choose who dies forever, the "good Voldemort" or himself. Its very similar to how he toys with Rita Skeeter before murdering her.