Why are people here reacting like Hermione is perma-dead?
I get that they’d act that way on reddit, but people here actually believe and sign up for cryonics. Harry’s got a whole team of Alcor cryonic specialists right in his wand. And if he can’t manage the magic, Dumbledore can. Hermione’s soul and magic may have exploded in an impressive lightshow, but her brain is still fully oxygenated and hasn’t even begun to decompose.
Everything that makes her her is still doing fine.
(And on a meta level, Elizer knows that fictional examples are strong drivers of behavior. A fictional example of cryonics working would be big for cryonics adoption.)
Harry’s brain suggested that an obvious way to stop the Dementors from seeing Bellatrix was to make her stop existing, i.e., kill her. Harry congratulated his brain on thinking outside the box and told it to continue searching.
Kill her and then bring her back, came the next suggestion. Use Frigideiro to cool Bellatrix down to the point where her brain activity stops, then warm her up afterward using Thermos, just like people who fall into very cold water can be successfully revived half-an-hour later without noticeable brain damage.
Harry considered this. Bellatrix might not survive in her debilitated state. And it might not stop Death from seeing her. And he’d have trouble carrying a cold unconscious Bellatrix very far. And Harry couldn’t remember the research on which exact body temperature was supposed to be nonfatal but temporarily-brain-halting.
He’s familiar with cryonics then, or at least the concept of suspended animation.
It was another good outside-the-box idea, but Harry told his brain to keep thinking...
The next line implies that he’d have used the plan if he didn’t immediately think up a better one. Any plan he comes up with to save Hermione has to be at least as likely to succeed as cryonics.
Because the old ancient wizard has reason to believe souls exist, which means that while it’s probably possible to keep Hermione’s body functioning, there’s “a burst of something… too vast to be understood” that’s just gone missing.
Mind, that doesn’t stop someone from figuring out a way anyway. Harry certainly plans to. It just makes things significantly more difficult.
Old people, & people immersed in the traditional wisdom of old cultures, believe many things that have playtested as useful beliefs over a very long period. It doesn’t follow from this that no dross creeps in.
I had assumed that such a, well, intense death scene would mean that her death was supposed to be really meaningful and so on … but as I’ve been thinking about it, I’ve become increasingly certain that she’ll be back.
Why are people here reacting like Hermione is perma-dead?
I get that they’d act that way on reddit, but people here actually believe and sign up for cryonics. Harry’s got a whole team of Alcor cryonic specialists right in his wand. And if he can’t manage the magic, Dumbledore can. Hermione’s soul and magic may have exploded in an impressive lightshow, but her brain is still fully oxygenated and hasn’t even begun to decompose.
Everything that makes her her is still doing fine.
(And on a meta level, Elizer knows that fictional examples are strong drivers of behavior. A fictional example of cryonics working would be big for cryonics adoption.)
from http://hpmor.com/chapter/56
He’s familiar with cryonics then, or at least the concept of suspended animation.
The next line implies that he’d have used the plan if he didn’t immediately think up a better one. Any plan he comes up with to save Hermione has to be at least as likely to succeed as cryonics.
Stuffed Into The Fridge, indeed.
Because the old ancient wizard has reason to believe souls exist, which means that while it’s probably possible to keep Hermione’s body functioning, there’s “a burst of something… too vast to be understood” that’s just gone missing.
Mind, that doesn’t stop someone from figuring out a way anyway. Harry certainly plans to. It just makes things significantly more difficult.
Old people, & people immersed in the traditional wisdom of old cultures, believe many things that have playtested as useful beliefs over a very long period. It doesn’t follow from this that no dross creeps in.
I had assumed that such a, well, intense death scene would mean that her death was supposed to be really meaningful and so on … but as I’ve been thinking about it, I’ve become increasingly certain that she’ll be back.