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Ghost Story Book Club - Chapters 46-FINISH **MAJOR SPOILERS**
huangjimmy108:
Guys, Do you think Harry will stop having money problem now that he is WK? It will be interesting to see Harry having cool outfit like sub-con Harry for one thing, able to bribe CPD officers, driving big cars and so on. He had been poor all this time and the Warden's pay only go so far. What do you guys think?
Taylor0401:
--- Quote ---Corpsetaker, only took a year to almost return him/her/itself to a body
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Harry shot Corpsetaker in Dead Beat, that was roughly 5 years before Ghost Story, give or take. Kemmler was killed I think seven times by the Wardens before he stopped coming back and it never says how often he was popping back up. My guess is that Corpsetaker just didn't have the experience and/or the know-how to efficiently pull off defying death post-mortem.
john4200:
--- Quote from: novaseaker on July 30, 2011, 03:46:23 AM ---I mean, any dark magic wizard could break the Fourth Law of Magic and enthrall someone. A practitioner of enough power could even do it to Harry.
Are you saying that Mab doesn't have that power?
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Mab could probably do that. She could make Harry into a mindless thrall. But then, it is not Harry doing something, it is Mab controlling him completely. As McCoy said in Changes, Mab can make Harry do things, but she cannot make Harry choose to do anything. It is a fine distinction, but important. If Mab makes Harry a mindless thrall, then it is no different than if Mab did all the things herself -- Harry's body would just be an extension of Mab's own. But if Mab managed to get Harry to do something of his own free will, that is really shaping him, making him into into someone willing to do evil. But Mab cannot do that unless Harry chooses to allow it. So, at the deepest level, it is NOT within Mab's power to shape Harry.
Taylor0401:
I haven't seen this brought up in any of the forums yet, and only just now occurred to me. Near the beginning of the book, Stu tells Harry that the lemurs got past Mort's threshold, but he didn't know how. Was it ever explained how that happened?
dzimmerm:
In regards to Deomonreach referring to a parasite.
To an island, which is what Demonreach is, a tree might be considered a parasite as it lives off the minerals and water of the island. Minerals that are processed and released into the atmosphere would be effectively lost to the island.
I don't think Lash or her evil progenitor is still around.
Another point, the reason the FAE can not lie probably has to do with the fact that the very substance they are made of would be unmade if a falsehood was done. The power of a a being over magic comes from their ability to work with reality. Lies negate reality. So for a FAE to lie would be a negation of their reality and the magic that makes them possible.
I loved this book, and will read it again as time permits to see what I missed in my hurry at enjoying the reading the first time.
dzimmerm
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