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Macaulay comments on [FINAL CHAPTER] Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 122 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Macaulay 14 March 2015 11:05:28PM 5 points [-]

Now Hermione learns Patronus 2.0 and destroys Azkaban. So both the Boy-Who-Lived and the Girl-Who-Revived can kill dementors. Sounds like "surviving/defeating Voldemort" is a plausible cover for explaining the origin of the ability to destroy dementors.

Comment author: MathiasZaman 16 March 2015 08:22:30AM 5 points [-]

With Dementors out of the way, the cost of telling people the secret of the True Patronus becomes a lot lower.