Would you mind going over your cerebrolysin injections a bit?
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Integrated Method for Policy Making Using Argument Modelling and Computer Assisted Text Analysis
That ones actually a bit dangerous. The current regulator is rated to go that low, so it’s going to be unreliable. In this instance unreliable means brain lesions.
they locked to his own
legilimency of some sort? or simply dramatic license. I don’t remember any example of that particular action being pointed out that wasn’t leglimency.
Yeah, I’m not arguing the point. I just have a weird sense of humour and “Because he’s insane” tickles my funny bone.
My running theory is because he’s a horcrux, but it’s hard to say. Apparently there’s one point where this fix departed from cannon, if we can pin point that you’ll have your answer.
Alright, fine. An actual non-sarcastic answer. He plays with the trope of being insane. He’s entire chaos legion cackles maniacally. He is very certain of strange ideas that are almost the opposite of that his experienced elders believe, about their areas of expertise.
From that point of view it’s easy to see why people would think he’s crazy. Not to mention the simple fact that he doesn’t adhere to social rules like normal people do.
Bellatrix truly believed she was doomed, that’s a strong belief against harrys position. Harry himself didn’t fully believe it either. I’d argue that the extent of bellatrixes disbelief was greater then the great halls, although it’s hard to say. That coupled with the fact that harry wasn’t a true believer leads to a consensus that they’re not leaving. Now we have 2 true believer on harrys side and a bunch of people who probably don’t have real strong opinions one way or the other.
Also, it’s entirely possible that magical ability decides how many “votes” you get in the consensus!dementors actions. Albus has reason to very very strongly believe that the dementor will do as he’s told. Whether that’s enough to overwhelm the rest of the voters, who believe that the dementor will not do what harry says, but fear them and would certainly be thrown off gourd by the first question, is hard to say.
My hope is that is answers “yes” to the first question, enough to raise enough doubt that the second question can also be a yes. Once the second question has been answered in the mysterious yes manner, hopefully it confuses the expectations of the crowd enough to allow the dementor to be ordered about. You start with a question that can be answered innocuously enough, but changes the expectations enough. Then you keep doing that. Like murder gandhi.
Because he’s insane.
That’s why it needs to be phrased in such a way as to put them off guard. if they’re consensus!dementors then hopefully that seed of doubt combined with McGonigal’s and Albus’s belief could tip the balance. I admit my own attempt to create doubt (by using “just say yes or no”) was a bit amateurish. I’d imagine that dark!harry can do better. Intuitively it seems like all he’d have to do is create doubt in the non-believers and his true believers could carry it.
the risk of revealing what he did in Azkaban (at least to MoR!Dumbledore).
Harry doesn’t know of this risk. If we’re modelling harry we should discount it.
True, but it doesn’t have to actually communicate anything to its peers at azkaban. People just need to believe it did. It’s obviously threatened in the middle of a court room, then starts flying to azkaban. Most people are going to presume that after something like that the dementors would leave Hermione alone. If they are consensus!dementors, not some-motive!dementors they’ll still leave her alone, because people will believe they will leave her alone.
if they’re some-motive!dementors, they’ll leave her alone because they don’t want to die. Either way he wins.
Even if the hypothesis that they don’t really think, just behave in a way that people think they will, is true; it’s phrased in such a way as to cause doubt in the purple-robes (the use of “just say yes or no” to make them think there’s more information then they’re getting) and belief in albus. If it just answers “yes” to the first question, it’s still plausible within the purple robes belief sets, but hopefully makes harry seem mysterious enough that they believe the next question can also be a yes. Then albus, who’s a true believer, pushes the consensus reality over to a yes with his understanding that harry has the power to destroy them.
Dementor, do you know who I am? Just say yes or no.
Do you know what I’m capable of? Once again, yes or no.
Leave Hermione be. Do not approach her or tread upon her thoughts during her time in azkaban. Run along and tell your compatriots at azkaban. Now.
Hopefully albus’s belief would be enough to bolster them even if they don’t have a mind if their own. If they do have a mind of their own they can be threatened, and have been in the past.
I’ve got several prototype devices for doing this. I’m having someone else sort through promising abstracts. If anyone has any experiments to try or any other questions let me know. I don’t have the facilities to do proper studies of any sort, nor do I have an licensing or legal authority to conduct any studies. But I’ll gladly answer things from a guy-in-his-basement perspective.
I’m not suggesting that any emotion should be attached to the lack of a great truth or true indisputable morals; I’m simply stating the obvious,
Harry with the ability to invent potions would be powerful enough to wreck the story.
Harry with time travel would be enough to wreak the story. Harry with an invisibility cloak would be enough to wreak the story, Hell, harry with rationality would be enough to wreak the story.
That is, unless the other obstacles were ramped up to deal with it. Give Harry a time turner and enemies clever enough to know how to check on him. Give harry an invisibility cloak but add spells that can detect the presence of a deathly hallow. Give Harry mastery of potions but make creating them slow or just plain difficult.
“even stopper death”
What I got from that was snape claiming to be able to temporarily store or stop death. To extend someones life. Not a great interpretation in hindsight, but I was ~ten the last time I heard that line so I’ll forgive myself.
Morals are axioms. They’re ultimately arbitrary. Relying on arguments with logic and reason for deciding the axioms of your morals is silly, go with what feels right. Then use logic and reason to best actualize on those beliefs. Try to trace morality too far down and you’ll realize it’s all ultimately pointless, or at least there’s no single truth to the matter.
The had blinders as far as lying goes. Their species was simply incapable of it.
Because harry can carry through on his threats, and it seems the standard mental model for dementors has them being self-serving. A dementor should respond to threats, as far as I can tell.
When I was arguing this I was also taking into account that albus (and the great hall) had seen the dementor be afraid of harry, but it occurs to me that that was in the future.