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If you have not yet listened to chapter 113,

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please stop listening right now and go back. You

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don't want to listen to this. Listen

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to chapter 113 and then come back. Okay,

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so I have now had

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my 60 hours to, admittedly

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slightly more, to think about this

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problem. And I have to

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admit, I don't have a

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complete solution. I

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have like an idea of what he should do,

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but I don't know how he would do it. A

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lot of my pondering ended up focusing

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around prophecy and how

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it could potentially be interpreted differently.

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I also was trying to think about what

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the book tried to teach, what was its main themes.

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And so if there was something that we were supposed

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to be using the techniques,

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so to speak, that we had been taught through

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this book,

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rationality, the scientific

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method. And so I

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started asking myself questions like Harry would.

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I noticed that I'm confused. What

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do I think that I know and how

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do I think that I know it?

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And I decided that Harry

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was in an impossible situation. He couldn't win

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through brute force. So he

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had to do something with

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his words. And most of the time, I think in the

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story, when he really does something, he

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does it through thinking it through and persuading

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someone. And

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if he's being a rationalist, he

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does it through thoughts, not necessarily through action.

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So what thoughts is he having? And

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then how does he use those thoughts

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to persuade someone else? And how is that persuasion

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going to keep him alive? And so

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to conclude my thoughts, Harry

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could have come up with a solution at any point in this story,

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but he doesn't. And

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there must be something that happens in chapter 113 that

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makes him realized,

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gives him some new piece of information that he didn't

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have before. And so the

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last thing that Voldemort says is

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about the power. What power

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is it that I don't know about that

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you have? And I think the

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author will use that as a springing

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off point to give Harry

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a light bulb moment and go, hmm, the

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prophecy says that, and then he thinks

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about the prophecy, and then he'll reinterpret the

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prophecy. So it's not a power that

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Harry has that Voldemort doesn't.

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It should read, in my mind, like this. He

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will have power the

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Dark Lord knows not,

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in that the Dark Lord

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knows a power and

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thinks that Harry has it, but he will

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not have that power. He

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won't have, and that power that the Dark

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Lord thinks that he has is the power

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to destroy the world. And

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then as the prophecy goes on, either

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must destroy all but a remnant of the other,

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and these two spirits

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cannot exist in the same world.

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And I think this is about hypotheses

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and the scientific experiment. So

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either must destroy all but a remnant of the

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other is two hypotheses

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put against each other, and then these

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two spirits can't exist in the same world. You

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can't have two ideas that are opposing

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that are both true. One

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is true and one is false. They can't both exist

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in the same world. So

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the conclusion I have

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is that Harry will realize

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this reinterpretation of the prophecy, tell

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that to Voldemort, and

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then say, you need to perform

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an experiment to work

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out whether it is me who

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is going to be the destroyer of the world. Because if

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I'm not, then you're doing

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away with the wrong person. And for

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some reason, for this is... experiment Harry's

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gonna have to be alive and Hermione's gonna have to be

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alive and I don't know what the experiment

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is that's as far as

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I got and I could be barking up completely

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the wrong tree but there

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you go you have my theory and

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we shall now read chapter 114