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RobbBB comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 120 - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Gondolinian 12 March 2015 07:03PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 12 March 2015 08:02:21PM 6 points [-]

Her memories were sealed in a way that was intentionally undoable. This may not be possible with Voldemort.

Comment author: RobbBB 12 March 2015 09:20:15PM 1 point [-]

Agreed, though there could be quite recent back-ups of LV's memories; we know there are at least older ones, the Horcrux v1s.

Comment author: DanielLC 12 March 2015 10:35:56PM 1 point [-]

Voldemort seems to have memories after making the v1s, suggesting that even they were continuously updated.

Comment author: RobbBB 12 March 2015 11:51:41PM 1 point [-]

Hm? Voldemort himself has memories, but the V1 horcruxes are basically separate people forked from the moment when he created them, whereas the V2 horcruxes are a mechanism for his revival as a single continuous succession-of-experiences that switches bodies.

Comment author: DanielLC 13 March 2015 12:39:27AM 1 point [-]

Wasn't he restored from a V1?

Comment author: Kindly 13 March 2015 12:44:31AM 2 points [-]

The narration was unclear, but I think that it makes the most sense if we assume that Voldemort came up with the V2 Horcrux before he decided to use impossible hiding places, and that he was restored from a V2 Horcrux that was not particularly well-hidden.

Comment author: RobbBB 13 March 2015 04:47:33AM 3 points [-]

He was restored from a V2 Horcrux that was too well-hidden: without the Resurrection Stone network (Horcrux V2.5?) he was dependent on someone touching his horcrux, which didn't happen for a long time.

Comment author: Subbak 13 March 2015 09:34:16AM 1 point [-]

Well, as he said, it was an "obviously hidden" horcrux screaming "I'm apowerful magical artifact" (like the locket in book 6, which he explicitly calls out), as opposed to a random pebble in the middle of the desert.