The canonical False Memory Charm is obviously not the same thing as the MoR!FMC, given what canon!Hermione did with it. I don't think we can draw conclusions from that.
Good point. They're obviously at least somewhat different from canon. The rules on fixing their effects are unknowable without the author's say-so.
I suppose it isn't critical whether Obliviates and FMCs are normally removable in this universe - Harry would still be able to use a delay in carrying out sentence to either attempt to find a counterspell or find the real perpetrator or both.
So no matter what, for Harry, a one-year delay in carrying out sentence has a really good cost/benefit tradeoff.
And if Dumbledore won't exert himself sufficiently to secure that, there's no one Harry will be left trusting excerpt McGonagall -- and Quirrell.
EDIT: New discussion thread here.
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. With two chapters recently the previous thread has very quickly reached 500 comments. The latest chapter as of 17th March 2012 is Ch. 79.
There is now 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.)
The first 5 discussion threads are on the main page under the harry_potter tag. Threads 6 and on (including this one) are in the discussion section using its separate tag system. Also: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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