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

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 25 February 2015 01:31:40AM 5 points [-]

If you feel any sympathy for Riddle at all then that's not funny, it's tragic

I was wondering how EY would play this. For my part, the "pity me, I couldn't help being me" argument is not very compelling. He is what he is.

One wonders what Dumbledore's "unusual power of Divination" is.

I had assumed that he was busy faking divinations strategically.