In-universe play-acting or not, it's still strengthening the motif by having it keep turning up.
Right. I was just pointing out that it's not being presented as something EY is actually suggesting. Here we have it as advice from Voldemort and a lure to someone who's actively attracted by conspiracy.
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 116.
There is a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)