buybuydandavis comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 121 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 14 March 2015 12:31:32AM 4 points [-]

This sentence just clunked for me:

There was so much to do, so many things, that even Headmistress McGonagall didn't seem to know where to start, and certainly not Harry.

"and certainly not with Harry", with Harry as the object of McGonagall's starting, or "and neither did Harry", as in "Harry didn't know where to start either"?

Comment author: Vaniver 14 March 2015 01:15:38AM 4 points [-]

"and neither did Harry", as in "Harry didn't know where to start either"?

That was my interpretation.

Comment author: TobyBartels 15 March 2015 04:17:57AM 0 points [-]

I agree with the second, but I read it as ‘and Harry certainly did not’, which makes the actual phrasing seem slightly more justifiable than it otherwise would seem.

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