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DanielLC comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapters 105-107 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: SilentCal 19 February 2015 10:15:17PM 2 points [-]

The challenge for this theory is squaring with ch. 102 Quirrell's Parseltongued dismissal of Horcruxes as "meaningless" and "not truly gainsaying death", and so on, and with Quirrell's more recent Parseltonged statement that he cannot be truly killed by any power known to him. I guess he's brainwashed into both these beliefs, with the latter being factually false?

Comment author: TobyBartels 19 February 2015 10:33:15PM 1 point [-]

The first was said as a snake animagus, and it's not clear whether the inability to lie applies there too.