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FeepingCreature comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 104 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Michelle_Z 16 February 2015 02:27:37AM *  9 points [-]

"Harry had refreshed the Transfigurations he was maintaining, both the tiny jewel in the ring on his hand and the other one."

Hermione, probably.

The play on words with the title of the chapter (Riddles and Answers) and the final reveal was neat. Harry might be a copy of Quirrell!mort who's had his memory erased (rememberall,) and good ol' Quirrell!mort needs Harry to get the stone because...?

I'm still really curious how the Deathly Hallows are going to tie into this.

Also, where the hell is Cedric Diggory? Will it be another situation like what happened with the troll? The spare gets killed, or Harry is the spare, and is found defective?

Comment author: FeepingCreature 17 February 2015 08:09:14AM *  2 points [-]

I'm still really curious how the Deathly Hallows are going to tie into this.

Okay. Hm. I think maybe you can't transfigure Hermione into Hermione if you don't have a true image of what Hermione was like. But if you had the Resurrection Stone, maybe you could use it to create a true image to work from?

No idea about the wand/cloak.

Comment author: hairyfigment 18 February 2015 06:45:02AM -2 points [-]

Ahem. The current adventure will not go smoothly. Probably the best argument against my solution is that it also is not mass-producible without more work. And Harry could still do artisanal resurrections.

(We can expect the centaur back. Doubt he'll be able to find the pieces of that beetle, though.)