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knb comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 118 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: knb 09 March 2015 10:42:39PM 0 points [-]

I guess I'm still confused by something, hopefully someone can explain it to me...

I believe Voldemort stated he had some sort of fail-safe set up to kill the students at the Quidditch game if he did not get the Stone of Permanence. Was it ever explained how the fail-safe was dismantled?

Comment author: Jost 09 March 2015 11:04:16PM 5 points [-]

It was briefly noted in chapter 111:

The Dark Lord reached into his robes, took out a Knut, and flipped it to her. "Klaudia Alicja Tabor, I command you thus. Take this Knut to the spell circle I showed you beneath the Quidditch stands and put it in the center. Then Obliviate yourself of the last six hours."

"Yes, lord," the witch said, bowing to him, and went on her way.

"I thought -" Harry said. "I thought you needed the Stone to -"

The Dark Lord was still smiling, he had never stopped smiling. "I did not say that part in Parseltongue, child. All I said in Parseltongue was that I had set events in motion to kill students, events that I would stop if I obtained the Stone. […]”

Comment author: CellBioGuy 10 March 2015 03:15:19AM *  8 points [-]

... ... ... someone else at the school knows that Quirrel was doing something weird, and called him lord.

Mind magic, or their own will? Obliviation, but was the entire inception of that loyalty during that six hours or does she remember anything?

Comment author: kilobug 10 March 2015 09:10:38AM 2 points [-]

Some usage of the Imperius curse seems most likely to me. Or a Death Eaters using polyjuice. There are so many ways for LV to manage such things that it doesn't really matter how exactly he did it. ;)

Comment author: knb 10 March 2015 02:22:41AM 1 point [-]

Thanks, not sure how I missed that.

Comment author: higurashimerlin 09 March 2015 10:47:22PM 0 points [-]

He told another student to disarm it. He didn't need the stone to undo it.

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