Even so, the most terrible ritual known to me demands only a
rope which has hanged a man and a sword which has slain a woman; and
that for a ritual which promised to summon Death itself—though what
is truly meant by that I do not know and do not care to discover, since it
was also said that the counterspell to dismiss Death had been lost.
Since Harry wants to defeat Death, and has a glowy counterspell to destroy him, he’d have some use for this.
Strangely enough, Harry:
or Hermione Granger’s robes, which can be torn into strips and tied
into a rope and used to hang someone,
If this bit of obscure bit foreshadowing comes true, I update for the probability of Harry living in some simulation or story to 1.
I don’t understand how that’s a reply to my comment.
By far the most likely explanation for this passage is the Quirrel is describing the ritual to summon a dementor, and Harry rediscovers the counterspell. So the hinted-at event has already happened.
At first I wrote “foreshadowing,” but I was too lazy to look up the order in which things happened, so I substituted what I thought was a word safely agnostic to timing.
1-epsilon: Perhaps Harry winds up simulating this world and beaming the ideas for HPMoR to Eliezer to see how people react, or perhaps Eliezer is really Harry James Potter Evans Verres with polyjuice and lots of memory charms, or some other highly unlikely possibility that could make it less than 1.
All of which is to say that the probability that Harry is living in a story is ~1, given the evidence available to us.
Foreshadowing patrol.
Quirrell:
Since Harry wants to defeat Death, and has a glowy counterspell to destroy him, he’d have some use for this.
Strangely enough, Harry:
If this bit of obscure bit foreshadowing comes true, I update for the probability of Harry living in some simulation or story to 1.
Nah, there are already enough dementors around.
The probability of Harry living in a story is already 1.
I don’t understand how that’s a reply to my comment.
By far the most likely explanation for this passage is the Quirrel is describing the ritual to summon a dementor, and Harry rediscovers the counterspell. So the hinted-at event has already happened.
That wouldn’t be a hinted-at event, since that passage occurs way after the Patronus chapters. It would be… aftershadowing?
At first I wrote “foreshadowing,” but I was too lazy to look up the order in which things happened, so I substituted what I thought was a word safely agnostic to timing.
My comment was a reply to the comment above yours, sorry.
1-epsilon: Perhaps Harry winds up simulating this world and beaming the ideas for HPMoR to Eliezer to see how people react, or perhaps Eliezer is really Harry James Potter Evans Verres with polyjuice and lots of memory charms, or some other highly unlikely possibility that could make it less than 1.
All of which is to say that the probability that Harry is living in a story is ~1, given the evidence available to us.
I was assuming the -elipson part just went without saying. Of course you’re right.