What if: a) Quirrell and Harry’s actions in ch 51 only make sense in light of their planning to do something in particular, and b) doing that thing requires a charm not to be in place? I think that counts as a correct deduction.
(Somewhat) plausible hypothesis, not something to be confidently believed (which is the working interpretation of “deduction” I’m using, as stated at the beginning of the comment).
From the differing ways we treated the same two hypotheses just now I think we’re disagreeing on how fine a distinction we accept between two hypotheses before we say that they’re significantly different. From my perspective, apparating into the room and walking in under the cloak are functionally the same. In both cases, the purpose of leaving a charm off is to enable Q and H to walk out of the door as if they never left, and it’s that which I’d say is a valid deduction. Within all the hypotheses which fit that pattern, some seem more likely than others, but perhaps none are more than plausible.
What if: a) Quirrell and Harry’s actions in ch 51 only make sense in light of their planning to do something in particular, and b) doing that thing requires a charm not to be in place? I think that counts as a correct deduction.
(Somewhat) plausible hypothesis, not something to be confidently believed (which is the working interpretation of “deduction” I’m using, as stated at the beginning of the comment).
From the differing ways we treated the same two hypotheses just now I think we’re disagreeing on how fine a distinction we accept between two hypotheses before we say that they’re significantly different. From my perspective, apparating into the room and walking in under the cloak are functionally the same. In both cases, the purpose of leaving a charm off is to enable Q and H to walk out of the door as if they never left, and it’s that which I’d say is a valid deduction. Within all the hypotheses which fit that pattern, some seem more likely than others, but perhaps none are more than plausible.
It seems so, which would seemingly provide an airtight alibi for anyone except HP and his friends.