## Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Chapter 111: Failure, Pt 1

* Author: u/obviousdisposable *
* URL: http://hpmor.com/chapter/111
* Score: 26

* Created: 2015-02-25T18:52:45

### Post:

[Link to content](http://hpmor.com/chapter/111)

### Comments:

> **u/Transfuturist** [+5]  *Carthago delenda est.* (18 minutes later)
> 
> Alicorn Hermione incoming.

> **u/ajuc** [+8]  (an hour later)
> 
> So, Voldemort took Harry advice, and is testing the treatment he wants to do on himself on somebody else first?

>> **u/kaukamieli** [+5]  (an hour later)
>> 
>> Daaaamn, yea, that must be it.

> **u/CeruleanTresses** [+4]  (28 minutes later)
> 
> What I don't understand is why Voldemort said out loud what had happened. Seems counterproductive and I'm not 100% convinced it isn't some kind of ploy, but maybe he was just really freaked out.

>> **u/Escapement** [+9]  *Ankh-Morpork City Watch* (37 minutes later)
>> 
>> I am guessing either:
>> 
>> A) This is all still mirror-based wish fulfillment
>> 
>> or 
>> 
>> B) This is all part of some deeper plan to make Harry think he "won" and has been "successful" and can thus *not rip apart the stars in their heavens*. 
>> 
>> Even if B), the acting seems overly dramatic and the sort of thing I expect Harry to question shortly (hand back all Harry's possible tools, then violently exclaim "No if you kill me now while my back is turned I will really no-foolin' die!"? **Really?**) This inclines me towards A); It wouldn't surprise me if in an hour and a half, Harry will question his perceptions and realize he is mirror-bound specifically because of how implausible what just happened was.

>>> **u/Jace_MacLeod** [+1]  (an hour later)
>>> 
>>> The the thing that seems confusing to me about B): If Voldemort believes the prophecy is about Harry, then why wouldn't he just *shoot* him? That seems like a much more reliable method.
>>> 
>>> Then again, we are talking about a villain whom, upon learning a baby was prophesied to kill him, decided to turn the baby *into a similarly intelligent copy of himself.* Perhaps Dumbledore finally drove poor Riddle insane.

>> **u/AmeteurOpinions** [+8]  *Finally, everyone was working together.* (an hour later)
>> 
>> If *I* accidentally overwrote more than a hundred lifetimes of save files, I would be screaming and  ranting far worse than Voldemort did here.

>>> **u/None** [+5]  (an hour later)
>>> 
>>> Think about it, he was going to unlock both the good and evil endings, and now he gets neither.

>>>> **u/kaukamieli** [+2]  (2 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> He gets the bad ending.

>>> **u/None** [+5]  (5 hours later)
>>> 
>>> Really?  My reaction upon experiencing extreme depths of frustration, and I am a damned hammy person, is usually to lapse into apparent calm and mutter "oy gevalt" or "oh bugger".  Seeing that actually shows, for me, *more* exasperation than screaming and ranting.  Screaming and ranting shows I am still *engaged* and have not yet started wanting to just fuck off and *not be there anymore*.

>> **u/kaukamieli** [+2]  (2 hours later)
>> 
>> I don't even know what happened. Why did his horcrux fail? Because Harry exists? Because the horcrux would affect Harry too, so their magic got mixed and bad stuff happened?
>> 
>> edit: Was he trying to make a horcrux for Harry? Hermione?

> **u/kaukamieli** [+3]  (2 hours later)
> 
> The power Voldermort knows not. The ability to get stuff from the pouch by drawing letters in air? :)

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