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pedanterrific comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: pedanterrific 12 April 2012 12:20:55AM 13 points [-]

I notice that the only thing we're told about Hermione's appearance in Chapter 78 is that she has bags under her eyes, no mention of a cut on her cheek.

Comment author: Vaniver 12 April 2012 02:45:56AM *  1 point [-]

That seems like the sort of thing wizards would heal as a matter of course.

Comment author: pedanterrific 12 April 2012 02:58:26AM *  3 points [-]

Not first-years.

[...] even the most trivial healing Charms, if you tried to cast them with wand and incantation, were at least fourth-year spells.

(I'm referring to the scene at breakfast before the arrest.)

Comment author: Vaniver 12 April 2012 04:41:11AM 2 points [-]

(I'm referring to the scene at breakfast before the arrest.)

Ah, okay. I was thinking at the trial. A slight cut could heal up in the ~eight hours between the fight and breakfast, especially if she managed to sleep, but that does seem like a clue that the memory is fake.

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 12 April 2012 01:17:17PM 3 points [-]

A slight cut could heal up in the ~eight hours between the fight and breakfast

Really? Papercuts bother me for a couple days at least.

Something about a witch's constitution, perhaps.

Comment author: SkyDK 12 April 2012 09:01:36PM 8 points [-]

I suggest you reroll. I heal paper cuts in a couple of hours.

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 13 April 2012 06:47:26AM 12 points [-]

I suggest you reroll.

Thanks, but nah. I'm a healthy white male American with a middle class background and an intelligence greater than one standard deviation above the mean. Slow healing wounds are not enough to reroll in the face of the great risk of a less privileged life.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2012 01:35:53PM 0 points [-]

Well, you get to pick your race and your class (middle), and assuming you roll 3d6 for stats the odds are at least one of your results will be 14 or better, so none of those attributes are at risk.

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 14 April 2012 03:31:16AM 0 points [-]

Well, you get to pick your race and your class (middle)

Pfft

I'd stick with the Human race. I don't like the lack of supplemental material for the others. They're really under developed.

I have serious doubts that class in the sense you use it in could possibly be elective. The spread just doesn't match any decision making process I'd want to relate to.

Comment author: thomblake 12 April 2012 11:21:05PM 1 point [-]

Papercuts bother me for a couple days at least.

I heal paper cuts in a couple of hours.

Both statements are true of me, depending on what's meant by "heal". Depending on where the papercut is (sensitive place, callus, etc) it might stop bothering me long after it's any risk of bleeding.

I suggest you reroll.

Upvoted for this suggestion.

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