Steven Zuber

But I would say Harry's and rationalists as a whole desire to want to understand things and...

not be afraid of the truth is the other major core like i i it's weird to say something can have two cores but um because those two things don't really tie together unless i really squint uh one's heroic responsibility and one's dedication to the truth but i mean i guess you can't can't really be responsible if you're lying to yourself maybe and i

Yeah, I was going to say to successfully interact in it.

For sure.

Yeah, no, I love it.

But there's at least one other major moral or major other plot or thrust of the story, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

And it's beautifully done.

And Hermione is, as far as Death of the Author goes, Yudkowsky called her a Mary Sue, which is derisive.

But I don't think that she's unrealistically good.

There are people who can be Hermione Grangers.

And

So, you know, if she's a Mary Sue and how quickly she learns magic or whatever, fine.

But she's not an impossibly good person any more than Voldemort's an impossibly bad one.

that's what it takes that's that's her death star or her lightsaber whichever whichever side she is uh in order to keep the two sides in check so that there can be an actual battle for harry soul i like that yeah i i remember that quote and i took it to mean that you can't make harry smarter without making the enemy smarter because otherwise it'd be very boring story like that one outtake that it had where after like first whatever their first breakfast he goes to dumbledore's office and explains yeah i noticed that it hurts when i look at the back of professor quarrel's head

But I guess this is not related to the post, but I have an interpretation of it question for you.

So Quirrell assumes that Harry will be aligned with him immediately, right?

Do you think it's because, well, of course you can't be smart and good because I'm smart and good people are morons is what Quirrell's thinking.

Or is he thinking, of course he's aligned with me.

I imprinted my brain on his infant brain.