Vaniver comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fezziwig 04 March 2015 03:52:19AM 4 points [-]

And now we really know why Harry had to carry around his father's rock. For practice:

And meanwhile, just like magic hadn't defined a Transfigured unicorn as dead for purposes of setting off wards, Voldemort's horcruxes wouldn't define a Transfigured Voldemort as dead and try to bring him back.

That was the hope, anyway.

Harry's scar twinged one last time when the steel ring went on his pinky finger, holding the tiny green emerald in contact with his skin. Then his scar subsided, and did not hurt again.

Comment author: Vaniver 04 March 2015 03:21:19PM 1 point [-]

And now we really know why Harry had to carry around his father's rock. For practice

I thought that we knew that like 30 chapters ago?

Comment author: fezziwig 04 March 2015 04:05:47PM 0 points [-]

I thought so too, after the troll. I've changed my mind.

Or, did you mean that we knew that it was for practice at keeping things transfigured thirty chapters ago? If so, I just missed it.

Comment author: Vaniver 04 March 2015 04:29:47PM 1 point [-]

I was thinking of this question in chapter 91:

"Is that a usual tactic, by the way?" Harry said, voice still odd. "Carrying something large Transfigured into something small to use as a weapon? Or is that a usual exercise for Transfiguration practice?"

There are a scattering of other discussions of the usefulness of practice, and I thought there was a paragraph that explicitly stated the theory that Dumbledore had given him the rock when he knew that McGonagall was right there, so that Harry would come up with the idea of Transfiguring it, and would thus practice, but I'm not finding it easily.

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