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gwern 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: gwern 27 March 2012 01:40:25AM 4 points [-]

Everyone's been posting this, and they all don't explain why Lucius, with Hermione's sentence almost a done deal, would accept an Occlumens's testimony.

Comment author: Tuna-Fish 27 March 2012 02:17:20PM 0 points [-]

Because he wants to. Putting harry in Azkaban would be no minor victory.

Comment author: gwern 27 March 2012 02:55:58PM 7 points [-]

No, he doesn't want to. He's frothing for Hermione's blood, the blood of the one who tried to murder the only precious thing in the world to him.

How could Eliezer make this clearer, write in a line like 'Drool dripped from Lucius's fangs as his eyes rolled up ecstatically, contemplating that filthy mudblood's miserable death in Azkaban, a fate far too good for that murderess who tried to end the luminous life of his Draco! Death! Death to Hermione!'

Comment author: TuviaDulin 28 March 2012 06:16:19AM 1 point [-]

Is it bad that I totally want this line to appear in the story now?