“Basically we have a very surprising and useful result for a self-reported self-experiment with a sample size of one, that has not been replicated in hundreds of years despite known attempts by known competent, motivated, and resourceful people provided with (allegedly) clear and complete documentation. Nobody even managed to steal either the stone or the elixir it’s supposed to make. (And IIRC, it’s claimed that Flamel needs to use the elixir repeatedly.)”
-well…
If it were purely a real-life situation I would agree. but we have priors from...cannon…
Oh. Right. it never actually DOES anything onscreen that couldn’t be done by a pretty red(?) rock. There’s still a high chance that Cannon!Stone works as advertised, though...
I shall refer to “the McGuffin”. the McGuffin may or may not be a working philosopher’s stone.
lets see.
Quirrelmort has some way of detecting the McGuffin.
Quirrelmort thinks it’s valuable.
Dumbledore REFUSES to hide it outside of hogwarts.
Harry notes that Wizards have obunoculars. I note that wizards think they’re great devices to watch Quidditch from a distance, and might not have thought to look at something CLOSE with them.
-conclusion: hm....quite the mixed bag. Quite the mixed bag indeed...
p.s. Do you REALLY think there’s any significant chance that MoR unicorn blood works as advertised in Cannon? I once fantasized about asking a unicorn for a sample of blood in order to totally bypass the downside.
...now that i’m thinking about unicorns, who’s blood Cannon Quirrel drank, I find it rather likely that Quirrelmort’s zombie-mode is the side-effect of drinking unicorn blood, and that it would be worse if he were killing unicorns. Or maybe not as bad; he could also be letting them live to avoid attracting centaur attention.
any significant chance that MoR unicorn blood works as advertised in Cannon
I’m not even sure what it did in canon. I only mentioned it as a potential example. But note that even if there are no souls in MoR, magic immortality itself is certainly possible. (I.e., if it resurrected in canon, it probably won’t do that in MoR, but it might prolong life.)
“Basically we have a very surprising and useful result for a self-reported self-experiment with a sample size of one, that has not been replicated in hundreds of years despite known attempts by known competent, motivated, and resourceful people provided with (allegedly) clear and complete documentation. Nobody even managed to steal either the stone or the elixir it’s supposed to make. (And IIRC, it’s claimed that Flamel needs to use the elixir repeatedly.)”
-well… If it were purely a real-life situation I would agree. but we have priors from...cannon… Oh. Right. it never actually DOES anything onscreen that couldn’t be done by a pretty red(?) rock. There’s still a high chance that Cannon!Stone works as advertised, though...
I shall refer to “the McGuffin”. the McGuffin may or may not be a working philosopher’s stone. lets see.
Quirrelmort has some way of detecting the McGuffin.
Quirrelmort thinks it’s valuable.
Dumbledore REFUSES to hide it outside of hogwarts.
Harry notes that Wizards have obunoculars. I note that wizards think they’re great devices to watch Quidditch from a distance, and might not have thought to look at something CLOSE with them. -conclusion: hm....quite the mixed bag. Quite the mixed bag indeed...
p.s. Do you REALLY think there’s any significant chance that MoR unicorn blood works as advertised in Cannon? I once fantasized about asking a unicorn for a sample of blood in order to totally bypass the downside.
...now that i’m thinking about unicorns, who’s blood Cannon Quirrel drank, I find it rather likely that Quirrelmort’s zombie-mode is the side-effect of drinking unicorn blood, and that it would be worse if he were killing unicorns. Or maybe not as bad; he could also be letting them live to avoid attracting centaur attention.
I’m not even sure what it did in canon. I only mentioned it as a potential example. But note that even if there are no souls in MoR, magic immortality itself is certainly possible. (I.e., if it resurrected in canon, it probably won’t do that in MoR, but it might prolong life.)