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drethelin comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 12 December 2013 10:29:24PM 14 points [-]

Nothing specifically to do with these chapters, but it's only just occurred to me: Is it supposed to be significant that the initials of Potter-Evans-Verres are also the start of "Peverell" (indeed, you can get more if you take a few more letters of "Verres")? It seems a rather superficial observation, but "Verres" is a really unusual surname and it would be nice to have an explanation for why Eliezer chose it.

Comment author: drethelin 13 December 2013 06:18:53PM 2 points [-]

I think there's a good chance Eliezer started writing before he read any of the books that have the name peverell in them?

Comment author: Dentin 13 December 2013 09:43:41PM 10 points [-]

Peverell -> Potter Evans Verres Quirrel?

Yay pattern matching.

Comment author: somervta 14 December 2013 08:15:01AM -1 points [-]

PEVQ? erell = rrel? Doesn't really work.

Comment author: TobyBartels 15 December 2013 06:14:00AM 0 points [-]

AFAIK, he still hasn't read them, but he should have read ABOUT them before beginning.

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