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Velorien comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, January 2015, chapter 103 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Velorien 16 February 2015 11:41:12AM 1 point [-]

Even when angry, Hermione doesn’t use any violent or painful spells, and she indeed doesn’t pass Defence. Even with a troll coming after her, she doesn’t try to kill it.

She does.

Cool blue fires clung to the floor in small masses, surrounding a blazing pool that seemed to burn with a deadlier, hotter blue.

In one narrow circle the marble tiles were scorched and shattered by some explosive spell that only the most prodigious of first-year witches could have cast, with the last of her strength.

Comment author: b_sen 16 February 2015 10:33:52PM 0 points [-]

Point taken. (The quote is from the start of Chapter 89, in case anyone was wondering.)