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

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Comment author: Ishaan 01 March 2015 08:12:44PM *  -1 points [-]

I think those are just safety rules, rather than laws of transfiguration magic, so it should be possible.

(in any case, I don't really think partial transfiguration is actually the solution, since anything which involves combat is necessarily a long shot with too many magical unknown unknowns to count).