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

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 18 April 2012 10:12:55AM *  4 points [-]

I evaluated your arguments, I precisely showed how you were wrong in one case (his words didn't exactly echo her thought), how her eyes burning can't be treated as evidence of Legimancy if burning eyes are never correlated with Legimancy.

At this point the only specific argument you got left that I didn't address was that Quirrel is mentioned staring at her. So here, let me address that one as well: In chapter 70 (one of the Self Actualization chapters) Quirrel is again mentioned to be looking at her:

Then Professor Quirrell’s gaze shifted away from Tracey, he was looking at her, the pale blue eyes staring at her with an awful intensity— “Tell me, Miss Granger. Do you have an ambition?

But we are pretty certain there was no Legimancy done back there, because when her mind was later examined, Legimancy had only been used on her in January (back when Dumbledore communicated with her)

So tell me, chaosmosis, which argument of yours have I now failed to evaluate? Do you have a fourth suspicious sentence?

I'm downvoting this comment, btw, as you falsely accused me, as you ignored my own arguments, as you failed to show where I was supposedly ignoring your, as you don't indicate where I was being disingenuous, and as you didn't provide three of the many ways that Hermione might have had to step away from Quirrel.