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Comment author: Vaniver 17 February 2015 03:12:40AM *  9 points [-]

Observations:

  1. Quirrell does not say what the Stone really does. Harry does, in normal speech. (Presumably Parseltongue only prevents willful lies.)
  2. "Anyone else in Hogwarts" is pretty weak, especially since Dumbledore is presumably absent, and most of the people are at the Quidditch match (where is Sprout leading the others?). Especially as Quirrell interprets Hogwarts as "castle" in Parseltongue, and "unlesss I musst" is a pretty wide exemption.

Speculation:

  1. Harry will not be saved by the power of love. (80%?)
  2. Everyone involved in the deal gets 'what they want'--that is, cooperation on the Prisoner's Dilemma with a rational agent who (somewhat) shares your source code is rational, especially when defect-defect is miserable (presumably, both of them dead). (60%?)
  3. Hermione is revived (90%?) and is an Alicorn Princess (20%?).
Comment author: hairyfigment 17 February 2015 03:31:50AM 1 point [-]

especially when defect-defect is miserable

Harry, talking about his promise to take the killer of Narcissa Malfoy as an enemy:

Look, Draco, a pledge like this is just begging to go terribly wrong somehow, you know it would go wrong if this were a play -

Comment author: Alsadius 17 February 2015 05:01:27AM *  0 points [-]

I called it long ago(well before the confession) that the killer was Dumbledore, and that this pledge would cause a rift between Harry and either Dumbledore or Draco. Not 100% sure which side Harry will come down on there, but I'd say I'm about 90% that he sides with honesty.

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