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

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Comment author: raecai 05 March 2015 08:25:12PM *  5 points [-]

Come to think of it, what Harry said was mostly true. It's just that he omitted the part that the Tom Riddle who killed Death Eaters was known to magical world as Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, that Hermione followed him by means of being attached to his toe and that only the weapon which "destroyed" LV was first transfigured by Hermione.

I'm curious a bit about how he achieved the trick with the scar. Was it just by prodding? By taking/applying anticoagulant? DId he ask Moody to help him with it (apart from other things to cover the real story)?

Comment author: banx 05 March 2015 11:15:39PM 1 point [-]

I thought it was bleeding because of the magical resonance that was actually happening at that time when other Harry hit LV with the stuporfy.

Comment author: Decius 07 March 2015 11:48:56PM *  1 point [-]

That magical resonance didn't make the scar bleed the first time the scar encountered it, did it? If so, what happened to the blood?

Comment author: Jost 05 March 2015 11:49:42PM 1 point [-]

My first thought was about the centuries-old theatre trick: Harry hides a few drops of red paint in one hand, presses that hand on his forehead because “the scar hurts” … and voila, a bleeding scar.

Your thought seems simpler, though, as well as plausible:

The pain that flashed through Harry's scar was searing, it made him cry out and a red haze appear across his vision

(chapter 114; although I’m not quite sure whether that really refers to blood from his scar, or just garbled sensory input caused by the resonance)

Comment author: TsviBT 06 March 2015 03:02:59PM 4 points [-]

I'd say your first thought was right.

She noticed half an hour later on, when Harry Potter seemed to sway a bit, and then hunch over, his hands going to cover up his forehead; it looked like he was prodding at his forehead scar. The thought made her slightly worried; everyone knew there was something going on with Harry Potter, and if Potter's scar was hurting him then it was possible that a sealed horror was about to burst out of his forehead and eat everyone. She dismissed that thought, though, and continued to explain Quidditch facts to the historically ignorant at the top of her lungs.

She definitely noticed when Harry Potter stood up, hands still on his forehead, and dropped his hands to reveal that his famous lightning-bolt scar was now blazing red and inflamed. It was bleeding, with the blood dripping down Potter's nose.

Comment author: SilentCal 05 March 2015 11:25:18PM 0 points [-]

I assumed with a blade, his fingernails, or minor magic... Everyone's eyes were on the game.

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