It's much harder though, to dodge a bolt that comes straight out of a wall without any warning because you can't see the person who fired it, who if they have much sense has deliberately moved around so that they're not only attacking from a point where you can't see them or fire back, but from an angle where you won't see the beam either.
All the best ways I can think of to take the magical eye from someone who can do that, and lives in a place without "silly rules" against actually doing it, wouldn't place me in a position to lose limbs in the encounter. If he's not as Constantly Vigilant as Moody, he might be poisoned, but assuming it wouldn't destroy the eye or render it unretrievable, I'd sooner call in an airstrike. Although it's chronologically too early for transfigured predator drones, which would be my top choice.
Maybe a dark ritual involving sacrificing a limb to blind someone or something?
Edit: New thread posted here.
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 86. The previous thread has long passed 500 comments.
There is now a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
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