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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116
TuviaDulin10y130

Didn't Harry JUST learn a lesson about not keeping secrets and assuming he's smarter than the rest of the world put together?

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115
TuviaDulin10y10

He could have just Obliviated himself if that's all he wanted.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115
TuviaDulin10y00

Pretty sure the Atlantians created the Source. There's probably a dyson sphere in our star cluster providing all the power needed for magic.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115
TuviaDulin10y00

Safest option would have been the dementor's kiss. Or, if the kiss isn't a thing in MoRverse, tossing his wand to them as Harry had mused.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115
TuviaDulin10y70

Looks like I had the right idea after all. I think strands of strong acid or a highly reactive alkaline metal would have been a safer tactic than the nano-wire garrotes, since Harry wouldn't need to spend the extra action to constrict, but apparently Eliezer had this planned out from chapter one and it was too late to change it (due to the silver line, black robes, etc).

What came after, though? Not quite as convincing for me. I can't believe that Harry was able to transfigure Voldemort despite the resonance cascade. I also am skeptical that Voldemort didn't have any passive shields up against stunners. And what the hell is harry even trying to do with this convoluted ploy with Hermione anyway? Hasn't he learned anything about trying overly-complicated plots?

I'd also be VERY concerned about Voldemort having backup memories stored in his horcruxes, especially since some of them are of the old fashioned personality blueprint kind.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113
TuviaDulin10y40

Also,question. Do our suggestions need to be posted on fanfiction.net, or does this thread count?

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113
TuviaDulin10y50

"You needed worthy opponentss,"

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113
TuviaDulin10y30

It wouldn't be a projectile. It would be transfiguring part of the enemy INTO acid or some other deadly substance by including a bit of their body inside of Harry's conceptual "object."

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113
TuviaDulin10y-10

Wouldn't you need partial transfiguration to make the spike out of a piece of earth?

Regardless, that's not what I'm proposing that Harry should do. I'm saying he should use partial transfiguration to make acid or cesium threads through the air that include the death eaters and Voldemort's handgun in the transfigured material. That has never been done before, and its likely there won't be defenses against it.

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Cognitive Biases due to a Narcissistic Parent, Illustrated by HPMOR Quotations
TuviaDulin10y20

Interesting analysis. I'd agree, except that we just learned that Harry got a big chunk of Voldemort's personality downloaded into him as a baby, and Voldemort is a narcissistic, amoral, manipulative trainwreck of a human being. Petunia might have played a role, but I think the author's intent is that these are Voldemort's traits making themselves known.

One wonders, though, if perhaps Tom Riddle had a narcissistic caretaker in the orphanage that raised him. Unlike canon!Riddle, the MoR version doesn't seem to have been born a sociopath, but rather made one.

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