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ThrustVectoring comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 26, chapter 97 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ThrustVectoring 17 August 2013 04:38:53AM 0 points [-]

How do we have gold that we use as a conductor? Perhaps when a muggle handles fake gold, it gets magically swapped with real gold from a small supply elsewhere.

When a muggle handles fake gold and it doesn't work as a conductor, the Statue of Secrecy comes in and they get Obliviated and the gold gets swapped over so that it works properly.

If most Muggle gold is a clever Wizard fake, then the fakes are getting watched to ensure that those who handle the fake gold stay convinced that it's real gold.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 17 August 2013 02:21:19PM 2 points [-]

That's an awful lot of surveillance. Would a spell which detects a Muggle trying to use jewelry/store of value gold for conduction and sounds an alarm be possible?

Comment author: Baughn 18 August 2013 10:55:27AM -2 points [-]

Well, it's magic. Meaning 'If the author wants it to be'.

Comment author: TobyBartels 22 August 2013 09:30:34PM 1 point [-]

That's not what it means in this fic.

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