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linkhyrule5 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 110 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Gondolinian 24 February 2015 08:01PM

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Comment author: linkhyrule5 24 February 2015 08:11:12PM 3 points [-]

... Huh.

... Is it just me, or is Harry Potter now in the same room as the Elder Wand and the Philosopher's Stone?

... Well, there's a great big Dark Lord in the way, but.

Comment author: Macaulay 25 February 2015 02:40:04AM 0 points [-]

Does Quirrell have the Resurrection Stone? If so, that's 3/3 Deathly Hallows (invisibility cloak and elder wand).

Comment author: TobyBartels 25 February 2015 08:02:45PM 0 points [-]

He had it when he learnt what it was, and he would hardly have let himself lose it afterwards.

Comment author: Gabriel 24 February 2015 08:21:04PM 0 points [-]

My reading was that he threw the objects aside, not through the mirror, so they got sealed together with Dumbledore's pocket mirrorverse (a mirrorverse... he must have been hiding a goatee under that fake beard!)

Comment author: Vaniver 24 February 2015 08:23:27PM 10 points [-]

My reading was that he threw the objects aside

Outside of the mirror's reflection, and into the real world. It probably be devastating to the government / long-standing enchantments on Britain if the Line of Merlin Unbroken were broken, and Harry will miss out on set bonuses if he doesn't get the Elder Wand.

Comment author: Vaniver 25 February 2015 02:01:06PM 0 points [-]

I've reconsidered. This remains the interpretation I consider most likely, but the secondary interpretation is that Dumbledore is storing them in the mirror so that Harry can retrieve them.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 24 February 2015 08:41:25PM 4 points [-]

I assumed that by throwing them away, they were not taken into the Mirror with Dumbledore when he sent himself into the frozen instant, instead of Harry.

Comment author: Gondolinian 24 February 2015 08:12:43PM *  0 points [-]

... Is it just me, or is Harry Potter now in the same room as the Elder Wand and the Philosopher's Stone?

... Well, there's a great big Dark Lord in the way, but.

Also Dumbledore's scepter-thing (Line of Merlin Unbroken?), if that has any power.