![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (It said almost everything you needed to know about Hermione Granger that she had never let that stop her, or even let it interfere with her love of being tested. She really wished she wouldn’t have felt that way, the boy wasn’t a teacher, but it was still a test and she’d gotten a question wrong and that always felt like a little punch in the stomach. I like to think of myself as a very egalitarian reader. “My answer is that the robes are Charmed to keep themselves clean.” “Not quite,” said the boy. Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. And she supposed she could probably skip Step 4, about the cardboard poster. Well, Step 3 was measuring the results, but in this case, that was just seeing that the stain had vanished. ![]() Hermione let out a sigh of relief, not least because this meant she wasn’t dealing with all of the Dark Lord’s magical power. Then she stared at it, trying to remember how long the original fluid had taken to disappear… And the green stain vanished! “All right,” Hermione said, “since you say so,” and she rather gingerly poured a bit of green pop onto a corner of the boy’s robes. Hermione looked at his trunk, which, she was beginning to suspect, was rather more special than her own. Harry Potter And The Methods of Rationality ![]()
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