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

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Comment author: Gondolinian 24 February 2015 08:56:27PM *  10 points [-]

My understanding:

Start: Quirrellmort is trapped in the reflected portion of Hogwarts; Harry is under the cloak and thus not reflected, but still trapped in Quirrelmort's ring; Dumbledore is on the other side of the mirror, unrestrained AFAIK.

Dumbledore starts the time-freeze on the Hogwarts side; Quirrellmort reveals Harry, takes the cloak and puts it on himself so he then doesn't have a reflection, and steps out of the reflected portion of Hogwarts.

Dumbledore reverses the time-freeze to act on his side to protect Harry. Dumbledore then disappears from the mirror.

End: Quirrellmort is free to roam about the physical world and has the cloak; Harry is still presumably trapped in the reflected portion of Hogwarts, but he is safe from the time-freeze; Dumbledore is frozen somewhere, but the Elder Wand and the Line of Merlin Unbroken have been left unfrozen as he cast them aside right before he disappeared; they are possibly now in the physical world with Harry and Quirrellmort.

[edited iteratively]