Duncan comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 March 2015 09:05:15PM 0 points [-]

So I guess no effort is going to be made to rescue Lucius or Dumbledore directly.

Comment author: Duncan 04 March 2015 09:10:36PM 5 points [-]

Lucius is both dead and warm. I think he's dead dead unless Eliezer has someone like Harry does something in a very narrow time window. Dumbledore is a much easier problem to solve (story wise) and can be solved at the same time as the Atlantis story thread if that is what the author plans.

Comment author: Nornagest 04 March 2015 10:14:22PM 4 points [-]

I doubt we can do justice to Atlantis in five chapters of plot; the last few chapters only resolved as much as they did because Eliezer fired almost all of the available Chekhov's guns. We might get some hints, a sketch of a solution, but we're not going to see it in detail.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 05 March 2015 03:16:14AM 0 points [-]

All he really has to do is convince Lucius to be a rock for about five minutes while he would have been summoned. Heal anything with transfigurative healing + the Stone.

Comment author: Transfuturist 07 March 2015 10:53:49PM 0 points [-]

That would require physical availability.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 08 March 2015 11:38:17PM 0 points [-]

He could have spent that hour sending a Patronus to Lucius, though.

Didn't think of it, though.