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Velorien comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, July 2014, chapter 102 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Velorien 29 July 2014 09:45:28AM *  4 points [-]

I don't think that Eliezer's trolls are rocks.

  • Quirrell states that sunlight freezes them in place, rather than that it petrifies them.

  • Quirrell states that a troll is constantly transfiguring itself into its own body, which means that the (apparently organic) form it's normally in is its true form.

  • The troll Harry kills doesn't turn to stone.

Comment author: mare-of-night 29 July 2014 04:43:50PM 1 point [-]

Thanks. I was getting them confused with Middle Earth trolls.