But shouldn’t Mad-Eye Moody, at least, be immune to that bias?
Yes, but he’s not familiar with how creepy Quirrel is and there may not be immediate facts available to him that put him at the top of his hypothesis space.
Um, Harry’s lunch alone with Quirrell triggered the time paradox. That should definitely raise any Quirrell-centric hypotheses to consideration.
True.
Good catch; I forgot about that.
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But shouldn’t Mad-Eye Moody, at least, be immune to that bias?
Yes, but he’s not familiar with how creepy Quirrel is and there may not be immediate facts available to him that put him at the top of his hypothesis space.
Um, Harry’s lunch alone with Quirrell triggered the time paradox. That should definitely raise any Quirrell-centric hypotheses to consideration.
True.
Good catch; I forgot about that.