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ChristianKl 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: iceman 13 December 2013 04:36:01AM *  29 points [-]

Premise: Quirrell plays the game one level higher than Harry Potter.

Observation: This entire incident is uncharacteristically sloppy. Why were the unicorn corpses found? Why was Quirrell discovered?

Observation: Harry Potter is now really pissed off that herds of unicorns to slay aren't standard procedure for stable-izing people with life threatening injuries. He has just been given another "if only" to fixate on. It has been brought to his attention in ways that wouldn't trip his "why am I being told this" sense.

Father had told Draco that to fathom a strange plot, one technique was to look at what ended up happening, assume it was the intended result, and ask who benefited.

Hypothesis: Reminding Harry that there were ways the wizarding world could have saved Hermione was the primary effect. Possible secondary effects may include impressing on Harry just how ridiculously powerful he is. Perhaps implanting the desire to save Quirrell into Harry's mind? Quirrell may not actually need the blood right now, though I suspect it doesn't hurt.

Comment author: ChristianKl 13 December 2013 10:04:08PM 1 point [-]

Hypothesis: Reminding Harry that there were ways the wizarding world could have saved Hermione was the primary effect.

Hermione was dead before she could have killed a unicorn and drank it's blood.

Comment author: kilobug 13 December 2013 11:13:28PM 0 points [-]

Depends exactly how it works. Is someone dead when the heart is stopped, but can still be restarted ? What happens if someone is forced fed unicorn blood (and the unicorn dies in the process) just after cardiac arrest, but when no damage is done to the brain yet ?

Comment author: linkhyrule5 14 December 2013 01:10:16AM 0 points [-]

By the time a capable wizard (Dumbledore) was on the scene, Hermione was dead.

I doubt there's anything unicorn blood can do that phoenix tears can't, so.

Comment author: Xachariah 15 December 2013 12:24:06AM *  15 points [-]

I'd think that unicorn blood has unique properties on phoenix tears.

Otherwise Quirrel would be tracking down Phoenixes and... showing them the first 5 minutes of 'Up' or something.

Comment author: TobyBartels 15 December 2013 06:31:21AM 5 points [-]

Yes. "Up" was a fairly good movie, but it doesn't hold a candle to the short film that constituted its first 5 or 10 minutes. That should have won an Oscar.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 27 December 2014 11:53:19PM 2 points [-]

Here it is

Comment author: TobyBartels 28 December 2014 02:33:49AM 0 points [-]

I prefer the original audio, but that might be too much to hope to find on YouTube.

Comment author: Baughn 15 December 2013 09:22:16PM *  2 points [-]

I could rewatch Up, except that doing so would require rewatching the first ten minutes.

And I can't do that.

Comment author: TobyBartels 16 December 2013 02:22:49AM 0 points [-]

I know that you're probably not serious but … you can always skip that part. You already remember what happens.

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