skeptical_lurker comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 117 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dxu 08 March 2015 08:24:33PM *  17 points [-]

Does anyone else feel like /r/hpmor (but not LW, thankfully) has been suffering from a lot of hindsight bias lately? First "Dumbledore was stupid with the mirror", then "Harry/Voldemort was stupid with the Riddle curse", then "Voldemort was stupid with letting Harry keep his wand", and now "Harry should've thought to preserve the Death Eaters' heads"? Apart from the wand thing (which I believe was pointed out by a few commenters before Chapter 114 was posted), pretty much all of those complaints were made after the fact. (No one talked about preserving the Death Eaters' heads until after Chapter 117 came out, for example.) I don't post on the subreddit, but I do read the comments there, and some of the complaints have honestly been fairly cringeworthy.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 08 March 2015 08:35:14PM 7 points [-]

No one talked about preserving the Death Eaters' heads until after Chapter 117 came out, for example.

I'm pretty sure some people did, actually.

Comment author: dxu 08 March 2015 08:36:17PM 0 points [-]

Did they? I don't recall seeing any.

Comment author: alexanderwales 08 March 2015 08:48:53PM 4 points [-]

See here for a thread posted shortly after chapter 115:

http://www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comments/2xtdi5/ch_115_so/

Comment author: dxu 09 March 2015 03:32:13AM *  2 points [-]

Ah, there we go. I must've missed that one. Perils of not double-checking, I suppose (though in my defense, the subreddit has a heck of a lot of threads right now, so that one might have been buried under a lot of other threads).

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 08 March 2015 08:43:15PM 0 points [-]

I might have been looking at r/HPMOR when I saw it. To be fair, preserving 37 heads would have taken a long time- as in, he might not have had the magic to cool them all, so most would be warm and dead anyway. It would also be hard to maintain the transfigureations.

Actually, I had just assumed that Harry had decided that Lucius deserved to die, and had blamed it on LV partially so that he could continue his friendship with Draco.

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