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In response to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality predictions

Comment author: EliAndrewC 19 April 2012 04:55:43AM 2 points [-]

Suggestion: the person who memory charmed Rita Skeeter was Gilderoy Lockhart, who was the most famous master of Memory Charms ever mentioned in canon.

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In response to comment by FAWS on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85

Comment author: loserthree 18 April 2012 11:50:43AM * 23 points [-]

The clock is a gift from Dumbledore. On the one hand, it could be recording. On the other hand it could be transmitting. On the gripping hand, Dumbledore has a Time Turner.

If Dumbledore wanted to assure that any time he was the best pressure-release for a prophesy that pressure was released as easily and discretely as possible and less likely to be overheard, he would want to make it easy for the Prophesy Force to get that information to him.

So he gives her a clock and tells her to ask it for the time each time she wakes up in the middle of the night. The clock tells Dumbledore. Dumbledore gets invisible. Then it's just a jump to the left and he receives any prophesy intended for him.

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Comment author: EliAndrewC 18 April 2012 04:15:48PM -1 points [-]

That might explain the first sentence of Albus Dumbledore's aftermath in Chapter 63: "It might have been only fifty-seven seconds before breakfast ended and he might have needed four twists of his Time-Turner, but in the end, Albus Dumbledore did make it."

Or perhaps not, since there would presumably be more than 4 hours between 2am (when Trelawny heard the prophecy) and the end of breakfast.