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jimrandomh comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 112 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jimrandomh 26 February 2015 05:32:36AM 11 points [-]

Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line...

(black robes, falling)

...blood spills out in litres, and someone screams a word.

Prediction: This is the scene where that happes, and the "fraction of a line" is partial transfiguration used as a cutting weapon.

Comment author: avichapman 26 February 2015 10:30:29PM 3 points [-]

I agree. A carbon nanotube metres long and whipped around fast. And Hermione screaming, "Harry!!!"

Comment author: noahpocalypse 27 February 2015 09:41:07PM 1 point [-]

Such a thin chain of carbon nanotubes like that would have almost no mass, ergo no force. It'd be like if you could make a string perfectly rigid and then you hit something with it.