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

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 03 March 2015 08:58:00PM *  0 points [-]

Hm. Minerva wouldn't do it. If Snape would, the Weasleys wouldn't know that.

Dumbledore at least knows it was the Weasleys, so I count that as weak evidence towards him...

Quirrel was probably not involved. His extra strong reaction to Harry mentioning that the newpaper spoke of a prophecy suggests he was not pretending ignorance during that whole conversation, since that reaction probably came from Voldemort, not from the Quirrel-role.

But I don't know that it even had to be someone of that power level, or for that matter a Hogwarts teacher.

It's also curious why Quirrel only deduced that it was the Weasleys after he figured out the method used. What's so Weasley-like about reverse memory-charming?