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[GS Spoilers] Harry's Power Ups

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Alablast:

--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on June 17, 2011, 12:48:38 AM ---Can at some point expose BOB to mccoy book collection, including the merlin journals, over a thousand years of magic from powerful senior council magicans. bob could translate them all, and teach harry their secrets,

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Does anybody else think this is a capital-B Bad Idea?

lovejoy69:
I'm not sure how this would be categorized, but getting the coin and burying it called upon Harry for significant actions. First, Harry raced to out-reach toddler Harry C to slap his hand down over the coin to protect the child. That's a knowing and intentional act of sacrifice, because Harry knew how incredibly dangerous it was to touch a coin without protective fabric between skin and coin. There was no time to take any precautions because little Harry C would have grasped the coin, so Harry D chose to take the hit instead.

Second, and related, is that Harry immediately and decisively sealed the coin away from himself and everyone else. No one in the Church, which is the only history we know, has known of any other person who has resisted the temptation. That leads into a third point, or at least an extension of the second point, in that Harry kept resisting the temptation. Lash ran the gamut - more personal power, less personal discomforts, and perhaps the most insidious one, that of how much good Harry could accomplish for others if only he had the assistance of partnering with Lasciel and her fellow denarians.

A less courageous man would have hesitated that split second which would have meant that little Harry C got to the shiny thing first. Harry may not have a conventional set of beliefs about TWG and the afterlife, but Harry did know how absolutely devastated the lives of human hosts had all become.

Grabbing a hot metal poker without knowing that hot metal burns one's flesh is one thing. The poker will sear and scorch but the mental choice to grasp it was simply uninformed, not brave.
OTOH, to know what the red-hot metal will do to you, how excruciating the pain will be, and still to do so because one needs to do it in order to protect an innocent -- that's selflessness and valor.

Harry not only resisted Lash all that time but even interacted with her enough that he persuaded her to "self-actualize", if one were to wrap it in psych lingo. Harry persuaded her to form an intent of her own and to break with her own origin and source. She chose a better purpose for her existence than the one she had begun with. Without Harry, Lash wouldn't have become an entity of her own.

Arjan:
Dark Harry wanted the temptation because he saw it as a chance. That is what he said. More or less as it turned out to be.
Harry could have tried to grab litle Harry or push him away (unless he was too close to the coin and there was no time to think).

Harry had these discussions with himself.

Harry handled it well at the end but dark temptation played a role from the beginning.

Praeceps:
You mention that he reads the Word but you didn't mention his new necromantic abilities (some of which I have a feeling are caused by necro!Bob's attempt to convert him into something else but that's just speculation).

Phariah:
i would lump his new bracelet under molly tbh. he was still walking around w/ his broken bracelet and after he got Molly as an apprentice he started reworking things. such as making his portable CSI style magic kit. also when he made his newer rings, the triple ones and one for each finger.

let's not forget his being accepted by Charity and becoming an adopted member of the Carpenter family. i would have to say it has given him new perspectives and the love of a family. i mean his reaction when Charity told him to stay after Michael was shot up was amazing. also when Charity was keeping up hope while Harry was flailing trying to track Molly. that is more of an ally imho. it gives him a resources for love. remember he needs to regen his soul after using soul-fire. having more people that cares for you has to help.

i would have to add Elaine in there somewhere tbh. it was with her help Harry created the Paranet w/ the weirguild given by Lara.

also where's Butters? he is a resource. also where's Murphy? i would classify her as an ally.

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