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Benquo comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 24, chapter 95 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: palladias 18 July 2013 02:23AM

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Comment author: Benquo 18 July 2013 09:41:26PM 5 points [-]

Has she read the original books?

Comment author: Benito 18 July 2013 09:43:52PM 4 points [-]

Yes.

Comment author: Alsadius 20 July 2013 07:08:10PM 1 point [-]

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Comment author: Benito 20 July 2013 07:37:47PM 3 points [-]

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Comment author: linkhyrule5 20 July 2013 11:45:48PM 1 point [-]

This is essentially why I didn't figure it out until halfway through the fic. Fanfictions depart from canon in unpredictable ways, so there's no point in saying "well it's like this in canon" when you already have major departures.

Comment author: Alsadius 21 July 2013 02:00:01AM *  0 points [-]

Huh, noted. FWIW, I went in having not read the originals before, so when I went back through and read the originals, around Ch. 30, it seemed like a lightbulb going off when I saw how things were set up in the original.

Still, you'd think "it was in the original" would result in at least a high prior probability.