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Alejandro1 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Alejandro1 20 April 2012 12:54:32AM 1 point [-]

Upvoted. I don't have any enlightening ideas about the nature of Horcruxes, but I have always wondered (given what the Hat said) why so many of the theories in these threads take for granted that Harry is a Horcrux, and I invite anyone who subscribes to this theory to explain how they reconcile it with the Hat's statement.

Comment author: 75th 20 April 2012 01:16:35AM 0 points [-]

Well, I think the repeated and explicit naming of Harry's Dark Side as a thing within and separate from the rest of Harry is a decent reason to take for granted that Harry's a horcrux. But then, we had decent reason to take for granted that Lucius thought Harry was Voldemort, until we learned a couple of chapters ago of the mysterious unnamed hero from the seventies.

Comment author: pedanterrific 20 April 2012 01:30:09AM 4 points [-]

But then, we had decent reason to take for granted that Lucius thought Harry was Voldemort, until we learned a couple of chapters ago of the mysterious unnamed hero from the seventies.

Am I misreading you, or do you think the new information about Noble Hero is evidence against the idea that Lucius thinks Harry is Voldemort? If that's so, could you elaborate as to why?

Comment author: 75th 20 April 2012 03:37:30PM *  7 points [-]

Yeah, eh, that statement was actually based on a major stupid error that I didn't realize was a major stupid error until I tried to type it just now. Quirrell's Yule speech made Amelia Bones think Quirrell was this Noble Hero; Harry's Yule speech made Lucius Malfoy think Harry was… someone. I stupidly pattern-matched this Noble Hero into that blank, somehow forgetting the fact that the speeches involved were not the same or made by the same person and were in fact in direct opposition to one another. If I hadn't been so coy about it I would have discovered this before embarrassing myself.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 20 April 2012 07:06:04AM -1 points [-]

Well, I think the repeated and explicit naming of Harry's Dark Side as a thing within and separate from the rest of Harry is a decent reason to take for granted that Harry's a horcrux.

Take for granted? Maybe Harry has read some IFS stuff in with all the cognitive science, math, philosophy, modern physics, and other things that he's read.

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