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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 17, chapter 86 - Less Wrong Discussion
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The comment about Avada being unblockable strikes me as Eliezer either not doing his homework or tweaking canon. If it were blockable in-universe Dumbledore would know this in addition to Moody (IIRC Dumbledore does one of the canon blocks) and would have pointed this out during the conversation (unless Dumbledore and Moody conspired beforehand to keep Harry ignorant of this for some reason, which, y'know, penalty for complexity).
Doesn't everyone make a big deal about the Unblockable Curse being blocked by Harry in canon, too? Or is that just in HPMOR?
Hmm. So Harry Potter Wikia seems to suggest that Avada is described as unblockable in canon, but what that seems to mean is that it isn't blockable by a shield spell or anything like that. Harry didn't exactly block it in canon; it hit him and he survived anyway because of the Power of Love. I'm updating mildly in the direction of Eliezer tweaking canon because he decided that the instances of Avada being blocked in canon were Rowling cheating.
Oog, now I'm semantically satiated on "block."