wwa comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101

wwa 22 Dec 2013 14:41 UTC
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The Severing Charm wouldn’t bring down a tree, so he’d started partially Transfiguring cross-sections through the wood.

Quirell saw that. Partial transfiguration is not the power the dark lord knows not.
- mjr 17 Jan 2014 12:32 UTC
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  I’ve pretty much assumed that cat to be out of the bag since the escape from Azkaban. Though he didn’t see how Harry penetrated the wall, he could probably reason it out with decent probability. But sure, beside what Sheaman said about PT being already counterindicated, this does clinch it.
- Sheaman3773 4 Jan 2014 3:02 UTC
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  http://hpmor.com/chapter/28
  
  Those dreadful words, spoken in that terrible booming voice, didn’t seem to ﬁt something like partial Transﬁguration.
  
  http://hpmor.com/chapter/86
  
  it will be something stranger to him than Muggle artifacts. Something perhaps that he cannot comprehend at all, even having seen it...
  
  Still, good catch.