Who killed Dumbledore? WAS: Re: Karmic justice in Potterverse again.

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> Pippin:
> Harry is not competent to determine the cause of death by an 
> examination of the body, nor is he competent to determine whether
> an avada kedavra curse has been effective. 
> 
> Harry, furthermore, wouldn't know the post hoc fallacy if it 
> danced in front of him wearing a tea cozy. He has come to
> faulty conclusions  even when no one was making
> a deliberate attempt to trick him, that  Slughorn would be the new 
> DADA professor, for example. 
> 
> Many wizards might reach the same conclusions as Harry, but
> then, as we all know, a lot of wizards haven't an ounce of logic.


Alla:

I think he is absolutely competent to decided that Avada was 
effective , as in  he sees "Avada" thrown at Dumbledore, the next 
step - Dumbledore is dead.

Here is my hypothetical for  the RW.
The person observes the murder, the person sees the killer take out 
a murder weapon and shoot another person. Another person is dead. 
The person who observes the murder reaches the conclusion that the 
person who made the shot is therefore the killer.

IMO, this is the analogy that is pretty close to what happened on 
the Tower, no? Keep in mind that I am leaving killer's intentions 
completely alone for the sake of this argument.

And you are saying that the most LOGICAL conclusion for the person 
who observed  the murder would be to look for a posible trick? Why 
would this person do it, if all evidence of the crime ( or whatever 
everybody interprets it as) is right there?

> Pippin:
> > Harry, furthermore, wouldn't know the post hoc fallacy if it 
> > danced in front of him wearing a tea cozy. 

Amiable Dorsai: 
> Do you suppose he knows Occam's Razor?


Alla:

Exactly. Thank you. You said with one sentence what I was trying to 
say with several paragraphs.


JMO,

Alla, who goes to iron her hands right now