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jkadlubo comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jkadlubo 28 February 2015 08:57:53PM 3 points [-]

I would say no to the Flamingo, but yes to any object ever mentioned in the story (e.g. car engine that he tried to use in the first battle), after all, Harry prepared his pouch for anything and everything that he could fathom.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 28 February 2015 09:45:09PM *  2 points [-]

In pouch, no. Transfigured in his glasses, maybe... but Harry is not allowed to move his hands to touch the glasses.

Unless the glasses already a contain a killing machine operated by eye movements. Then Harry can kill everyone with a blink of an eye. (Undiscriminate killing would also hit Hermione, but she would survive.)

Comment author: TsviBT 28 February 2015 11:01:38PM 4 points [-]

Since they are touching his skin, does he need his wand to cancel the Transfiguration?

Comment author: jkadlubo 01 March 2015 10:13:25AM 2 points [-]

No. He just learned to dispell Transfiguration without a wand when he dispelled the one on Hermione's body.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 28 February 2015 11:43:12PM 2 points [-]

Unless the glasses already a contain a killing machine

in that case he'd have used that in Failure Pt 2 obviously.