Harry didn’t quite know how to describe in words the sense of kinship he felt with Professor Quirrell, except to say that the Defense Professor was the only clear-thinking person Harry had met in the wizarding world. Sooner or later everyone else started playing Quidditch, or not putting protective shells on their time machines, or thinking that Death was their friend. It didn’t matter how good their intentions were. Sooner or later, and usually sooner, they demonstrated that something deep inside their brain was confused. Everyone except Professor Quirrell. It was a bond that went beyond anything of debts owed, or even anything of personal liking, that the two of them were alone in the wizarding world. And if the Defense Professor occasionally seemed a little scary or a little Dark, well, that was just the same thing some people said about Harry.
“I trusst you,” hissed Harry.
And the snake explained the first stage of the plan.
Do you guys think there was any significance in the reasoning Harry used to trust Quirrell earlier? Like was their a particular message that this sort of reasoning is (particularly) poor?
Like was their a particular message that this sort of reasoning is (particularly) poor?
I think this was yet another hint that obgu bs gurz ner Gbz Evqqyr. I think that the “world is mad” reasoning is one that Eliezer endorses in some sense—that is, there is a special kinship between the Only Sane People, but that kinship should not override other strategic and moral concerns.
-Chapter 51
Do you guys think there was any significance in the reasoning Harry used to trust Quirrell earlier? Like was their a particular message that this sort of reasoning is (particularly) poor?
I think this was yet another hint that obgu bs gurz ner Gbz Evqqyr. I think that the “world is mad” reasoning is one that Eliezer endorses in some sense—that is, there is a special kinship between the Only Sane People, but that kinship should not override other strategic and moral concerns.