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

9 Post author: FAWS 18 April 2012 02:30AM

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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 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.