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Comment author: buybuydandavis 20 July 2013 10:37:48PM 0 points [-]

Foreshadowing patrol.

Quirrell:

Even so, the most terrible ritual known to me demands only a rope which has hanged a man and a sword which has slain a woman; and that for a ritual which promised to summon Death itself—though what is truly meant by that I do not know and do not care to discover, since it was also said that the counterspell to dismiss Death had been lost.

Since Harry wants to defeat Death, and has a glowy counterspell to destroy him, he'd have some use for this.

Strangely enough, Harry:

or Hermione Granger’s robes, which can be torn into strips and tied into a rope and used to hang someone,

If this bit of obscure bit foreshadowing comes true, I update for the probability of Harry living in some simulation or story to 1.

Comment author: Benquo 22 July 2013 03:35:30AM 1 point [-]

Nah, there are already enough dementors around.

Comment author: BlindIdiotPoster 23 July 2013 10:18:25AM 2 points [-]

The probability of Harry living in a story is already 1.

Comment author: CAE_Jones 23 July 2013 10:33:25AM 1 point [-]

1-epsilon: Perhaps Harry winds up simulating this world and beaming the ideas for HPMoR to Eliezer to see how people react, or perhaps Eliezer is really Harry James Potter Evans Verres with polyjuice and lots of memory charms, or some other highly unlikely possibility that could make it less than 1.

All of which is to say that the probability that Harry is living in a story is ~1, given the evidence available to us.

Comment author: BlindIdiotPoster 23 July 2013 11:00:01AM 2 points [-]

I was assuming the -elipson part just went without saying. Of course you're right.

Comment author: Benquo 23 July 2013 12:12:35PM 1 point [-]

I don't understand how that's a reply to my comment.

By far the most likely explanation for this passage is the Quirrel is describing the ritual to summon a dementor, and Harry rediscovers the counterspell. So the hinted-at event has already happened.

Comment author: Kindly 23 July 2013 12:16:01PM 1 point [-]

That wouldn't be a hinted-at event, since that passage occurs way after the Patronus chapters. It would be... aftershadowing?

Comment author: Benquo 23 July 2013 10:20:50PM 0 points [-]

At first I wrote "foreshadowing," but I was too lazy to look up the order in which things happened, so I substituted what I thought was a word safely agnostic to timing.

Comment author: BlindIdiotPoster 23 July 2013 03:06:49PM 0 points [-]

My comment was a reply to the comment above yours, sorry.

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