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Donny comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 12 - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Xachariah 25 March 2012 11:01AM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 25 March 2012 03:45:28PM 16 points [-]

Because he failed as Voldemort, updated his model of the world, and is trying a different approach as Quirrell.

It seems to me this is the point of the monastery story: being gratuitously violent may have earned Voldemort status, but it did not get him what he actually wanted. MoR!Voldemort is more rational than canon!Voldemort, so he noticed this fact.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 March 2012 03:05:40AM *  11 points [-]

Did he fail or, on learning of the prophecy, pretend to lose?