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Looking to restart Madison LW meetups, in need of regulars
wobster10910y20

Thanks for posting! I'm working on getting a Facebook group up, and all events will be posted there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/783506698431372/

Check there for events and see if any of it works for you. If you don't mind my asking, where do you live? I'm very fond of driving and could possibly transport you for a weekend visit.

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Looking to restart Madison LW meetups, in need of regulars
wobster10910y20

Yep, I have the old mailing list! I'll definitely include the whole mailing list once I get a Facebook group and some plans set up. ^^

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 120
wobster10910y00

My understanding was Lucius came home and "found" Narcissa burned in the remnants of the house, or at least remembered doing so. It just doesn't make sense that a clever, cunning man (who brought Draco to see Death Note and criticized the plot) would find no trace of his wife and, knowing Dumbledore to be famously soft-hearted, would just unquestioningly believe that story.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 120
wobster10910y-10

Oh. Dumbledore must have memory-charmed Lucius.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
wobster10910y30

My feeling is things that are overwhelmingly likely do not get treated as information. For example, Harry's clothes go with him, but "Time" doesn't consider that to be information of his clothes still existing. It feels like that there's a Deus ex Machina aspect to how "Time" works and deals with information. Sometimes when you try to time-turn you just encounter Paradox.

So based on that I'd predict that if you try to time-turn with intention to get more uses out of the stone, you will encounter Paradox.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
wobster10910y70

There's a limit on a person going back, but I don't know about things. So maybe a bunch of people with time-turners could hand off the stone.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
wobster10910y00

My feeling is Harry doesn't want everyone knowing that he, 11-year-old warrior of light, killed 36 death eaters. People would always be wondering if you were evil after that.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
wobster10910y160

Harry, hurry up and read the instructions Voldie left you. You know, find out what dark sacrifice is needed before you make plans to revive Hermione yet again. If it requires a human sacrifice you might consider pacing the dementors out.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
wobster10910y20

I like Undead. "Hermione the Undead" ^^

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115
wobster10910y10

I'm so cross with Voldemort! How could he have possibly left Harry with the wand? How could he? It's the exact sort of mistake he obviously wouldn't make, especially since he already demanded Harry's wand several times already. How could he have left Harry with an hour on the time-turner? The game was going to last all night, it would have been so easy just to use up all the hours. Why did he wait for last words? See points 14 and 16 on the supervillain list: NO last requests, NO last words. It's all so weird and uncharacteristically unlike him!

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