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

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Comment author: glumph 20 April 2012 06:29:13AM 8 points [-]

The most promising option that remains, by my reading, is that there's nothing separate about the Horcrux contents for the Hat to key off of -- they effectively are Harry, or part of him.

That seems to be supported by this passage from Chapter 85:

Maybe because his dark side wasn't an imaginary voice like Hufflepuff; Harry might imagine his Hufflepuff part as wanting different things from himself, but his dark side wasn't like that. His "dark side", so far as Harry could tell, was a different way that Harry sometimes was. Right now, Harry wasn't angry; and trying to ask what "dark Harry" wanted was a phone ringing unanswered.

The idea is, crudely, that if Harry is a Horcrux, it is not because he has some distinct thing inside him, but because some part of Voldemort (part of his soul?) has "merged" with Harry.

Comment author: MixedNuts 20 April 2012 10:08:08AM 16 points [-]

Voldemort's Killing Curse worked. Lily's son is dead. The sacrifice magic hurt Voldemort and created a new person in Harry's body from Voldemort's mind, who we've been reading about ever since. The hat doesn't notice this because it never met the previous Harry. Voldemort knows all this and is treating Harry as his mind-child.

Comment author: chaosmosis 20 April 2012 06:18:32PM 11 points [-]

So Harry 1.0 was overwritten by Tom Riddle 2.0, but this time Tom got a loving family?

Comment author: chaosmosis 21 April 2012 03:06:14AM 7 points [-]

I just realized that the existence of the Dark Side is evidence against this.

Harry would be all Dark Side if his original personality had been overwritten.

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