Alsadius comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: solipsist 01 March 2015 03:17:47AM *  6 points [-]

I was going to correct you

Some of these items are expensive even in the Muggle world, and your contact may have to go outside Britain; but one hundred Galleons will be enough to pay for it all

But then I remembered -- no handguns in Britain! That was a clue I missed right there!

Comment author: Alsadius 01 March 2015 03:18:53PM 5 points [-]

That happened about 1997 after a famous school massacre, but the story is set in 1992. Guns are still available in the UK(though, obviously not so freely as in the US).

Comment author: TobyBartels 03 March 2015 02:19:33AM 0 points [-]

Right, so what he actually must asked them for is a gun that was already banned in the UK but not in the U.S.. Maybe one of those ‘assault rifles’?

Comment author: Alsadius 03 March 2015 04:26:03PM 0 points [-]

You think he had two guns in his pouch? I mean, it's not impossible, but it seems unlikely(and if he did, why did he use the lesser gun to shoot at Voldemort?).

Comment author: TobyBartels 03 March 2015 11:32:28PM 0 points [-]

Not seriously. I'm just trying to save the beautiful theory (that what the Weasleys' contact had to leave Britain to get was a gun) from the ugly fact (that guns were available in Britain at the time).

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