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[GS Spoilers] Harry's Power Ups
Orbweaver:
I don't remember precisely when in the series it happened, but Ebenezar's confession to Harry about being the Blackstaff had a very profound effect on the way he thought and felt not only about his grandfather, but about magic in general. It'd fall into the Knowledge category.
sociotard:
I'd say those can all probably qualify. It's just a question of demonstrating that Harry gaining or losing the ability to do something.
I'd also say that, since the list is already in a sort of time-line type format, we might put power increases and decreases on the list. Perhaps gain in black and loss in red? So, (going off memory here)
* SK Harry gains a favor from the Summer Court
* SF Harry uses up his favor to get a delicious donut
* BR Harry's left hand is burned, leaving it largely useless. Harry also loses the ability to channel fire
* DB Harry becomes a warden. This grants him some authority and greater legitimacy withing the White Council, and effectively ends 'poverty' as a plot point
Quantus:
I like the power downs idea. Then we should add:
GP - Harry gains the protection of Love
SmF - Harry looses the protection of Love
Serack:
--- Quote from: sociotard on June 16, 2011, 02:45:31 PM ---I happen to think this was a sufficiently powerful toy that it should count.
* PG Harry creates "Little Chicago" (later destroyed)
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Ah yes, when I was making this up in my head, I was thinking of this one and the shield bracelet, but didn't get them in while writing it. Actually, Little Chicago the object isn't what I consider a "Power Up" but rather the thermatalogical (sp?) skill he forged while making it is.
The shield bracelet is similar, in that before he didn't know how to make one, and now he does (and it's a significant trinket in and of itself)
--- Quote from: itshim on June 16, 2011, 03:06:45 PM ---Is it a power up when he learns to do veils as an invocation?
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I actually tried to cover that with the Molly apprenticeship. As to the rest, see above.
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 16, 2011, 02:58:28 PM ---He'd been using Force magic for a while, in the form of those rings, since SF.
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That is a very different spell, in that he is triggering a precharged charm to apply force, whereas in DB he is using raw will power to move something as an evocation. Something I believe he wouldn't have been doing if it weren't for the burn trauma effectively stunting his Fire usage which beforehand had been his fallback evocation (this right here is one of the keystone ideas behind the "hypothesis" mentioned in the OP). In SK Maeve uses frost to do something and Billy asks "could you have done that?" to which Harry responds "Yah, but I would have used fire" Which is odd, because they were referring to the imobilization of Slate, but the point is still made that at that point, Harry was a little one dimentional, and this event (the flipping of the car) personifies a rather dramatic "Power Up" that was precipitated by the fire trauma.
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 16, 2011, 02:58:28 PM ---Offhand:
WK - Learns of and uses his connection to Outsiders for the first time
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Actually the first time was when he defeated HHWB
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 16, 2011, 02:58:28 PM ---FM - Saves Marcone (gains "ally")
GP - Meets/Names Ivy the Archive
GP - Meets Kincaid the Hellhound
DB - Meets NecroBob
DB - Uses Necromancy for the first time
Changes - Meets Vadderrung
SK - Saves the crap out of the new Summer Lady and Knight
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For me, there are 2 definitions of an Ally.
1) Someone who is willing to follow Harry into hell.
2) Someone who owes Harry a marker (Jim's term).
Both, from the perspective of a "Power Up" are also effected by the power level of the "Ally" but one is much more temporary. Several of these here are more, just events or temporary markers rather than what I would consider a Power Up. However there are other individuals that obviously did follow Harry into "hell" that arn't on this list, but that's more because there wasn't a particular event that the formatino of the allegance is precipitated down to easily...
Vanderung... I'm not sure how to treat...
Bah, I gota come back and respond to the posts after itshim's after I do some more editing.
kqurollo:
Serack, i had an idea about this too. I was thinking of doing a re-read and picking up how Harry's descriptions of using his power change.
For example ( i am at work and don't have the books, so this is just my trying to expalin what i mean)
He may describe in an early book how doing a particular spell takes all his energy and concentration.
In a later book he may say the same or a differnt spell is easy or second nature.
This to me is also part of his power ups. How things are hard in the begginning and become easier or take less concentration or the spell itself has so much more power in it.
Plus i tend to read fast and not soak in details and it would force me to pay attention. ;D
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