SilentCal comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 112 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilentCal 26 February 2015 12:06:49AM 3 points [-]

I don't think the curse caused the resonance, for two reasons. First, Voldemort never harmed a Riddle. He arguably killed a Potter, but he made no move against the ensuing Riddle. This isn't the type of story to have a race condition bug in the Dark Lord's curse, though that's a great idea for omake.

Second, the don't-kill-each-other curse doesn't explain the feeling of doom or the Azkaban resonance incident very well.

Comment author: ChristianKl 26 February 2015 09:48:03AM 0 points [-]

First, Voldemort never harmed a Riddle.

He did kill his family.

Comment author: Jost 26 February 2015 10:29:12AM 1 point [-]

True, but irrelevant since they are not subject to the curse:

Before I created you, I invoked a curse upon myself and all other Tom Riddles who would descend from me.

(chapter 112)

Comment author: hairyfigment 26 February 2015 12:25:06AM -1 points [-]

Nor does it explain the pain in Harry's scar or his crawling feeling after the gunshots. (Harry was supposedly never under the curse to begin with, in which case he can't still be under it.)

Relevant, from Ch 111:

Harry felt a sense of terrifying apprehension in the air, as though the sense of doom had always been been out of focus and had now clarified, concentrated into a physical pain in the scar on Harry's forehead.

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