Actually, based on the Legilimens finding all the fantasies about Draco and Snape conspiring to hurt Harry and her, I’ve adjusted my probability estimate that Hermione actually did it significantly upward.
Hermione has been having paranoid fantasies about her friends being harmed by Draco → Draco attacks her, she weakens Draco → Hermione is suddenly in a position of power over someone she views as a threat to her friends → Hermione temporarily goes crazy and tries to eliminate Draco.
However, my probability that she did this without mind control being the deciding factor is still virtually zero.
My belief is and has always been that she did it, and was not given false memories, nor Imperiused or controlled in any way beyond the Groundhog Day attack. Eliezer believes that humans are hackable (cf. AI box experiments) and this Hermione storyline is showcasing it. Hat-and-Cloak had to find the right hack by proof and error, but once he found it, it was just ordinary words and no magic which influenced Hermione to “freely” decide to murder Draco (just like the AI gatekeepers who “freely” let the AI escape).
ETA: by “proof and error” I meant “trial and error”. I guess the reason for the mental typo is the Spanish equivalent “prueba y error”.
In that case: she knew when she awakened next morning that it should have killed him. If she had known that the night before, then after disabling Draco with the charm, she should alerted a teacher, or maybe woken him up and stunned him the usual way. If she didn’t do any of that, she was knowingly leaving him to die.
Actually, based on the Legilimens finding all the fantasies about Draco and Snape conspiring to hurt Harry and her, I’ve adjusted my probability estimate that Hermione actually did it significantly upward.
Hermione has been having paranoid fantasies about her friends being harmed by Draco → Draco attacks her, she weakens Draco → Hermione is suddenly in a position of power over someone she views as a threat to her friends → Hermione temporarily goes crazy and tries to eliminate Draco.
However, my probability that she did this without mind control being the deciding factor is still virtually zero.
My belief is and has always been that she did it, and was not given false memories, nor Imperiused or controlled in any way beyond the Groundhog Day attack. Eliezer believes that humans are hackable (cf. AI box experiments) and this Hermione storyline is showcasing it. Hat-and-Cloak had to find the right hack by proof and error, but once he found it, it was just ordinary words and no magic which influenced Hermione to “freely” decide to murder Draco (just like the AI gatekeepers who “freely” let the AI escape).
ETA: by “proof and error” I meant “trial and error”. I guess the reason for the mental typo is the Spanish equivalent “prueba y error”.
What about the possibility that Draco attacked Hermione with sufficient force that the blood-cooling spell was plausibly self-defense?
A “blood-cooling charm” doesn’t sound like it would have had enough stopping power to be effective in self-defense.
In that case: she knew when she awakened next morning that it should have killed him. If she had known that the night before, then after disabling Draco with the charm, she should alerted a teacher, or maybe woken him up and stunned him the usual way. If she didn’t do any of that, she was knowingly leaving him to die.