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Ghost Story Book Club - Chapters 46-FINISH **MAJOR SPOILERS**
Mr. Death:
Mortal women aren't awesome enough? Are too bland?
Murphy and Charity might have something to say about that.
Camdin:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on July 16, 2012, 10:19:45 PM ---Mortal women aren't awesome enough? Are too bland?
Murphy and Charity might have something to say about that.
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True enough, but for storytelling purposes, it isn't likely that Harry's grandma on his Mom's side was a White Council wizard since it would probably make his lineage well known among other wizards who knew her. So if that grandma was a mortal, it would most likely make her a vanilla mortal that EB never told anyone about. Because of this and Margarete's age when she died(I beleive over a century but I don't remember for certain) it would mean that this grandma would be dead and would at most get a brief description from EB if Harry could ever get him to talk about it. For storyline purposes this would be boring and a one-off that would never get brought up again. But if Harry's grandma on that side was immortal, it would bring in alot of color especially if it was someone he already knows. And it could influence him on certain factors going into the future. As an example if lets say Lea was his grandma, I could see them growing closer with him being the winter knight which could then lead him into risking his life to save her or to even usurp Queen Mab. Neither of which I could currently see him doing or at least not willingly.
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote --- It may be that there is no position of Blackstaff and EB is a warlock operating in secret from the White Council.
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Not true, The Blackstaff is a official position by WoJ.
--- Quote ---First Post: I beleive in this theory myself, has Harry actually discussed the position of the Blackstaff or the Grey Council with ANYONE else on the White Council? From what I can remember, the only person he's ever talked to about it was EB. Since EB isn't above lieing to Harry, I put forth that there is no Grey Council and EB just convinced Harry that he was doing good when in fact he was helping the bad guys.
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Also referred to by name in WoJ, it exists and all 13 (Harry included) members who showed up at Chichen Itza are members.
--- Quote ---Also I beleive that Lea is not only his godmother but also his Grandmother with EB.
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Nope, mortal who died in 1810.
Mr. Death:
I'm just going to put this out there:
Sometimes, not everything in the backstory has to be "the most awesome thing I can think of." Somewhere back along the line, the heroes' progenitors were normal people. Otherwise you get the George Lucas Effect where everyone who ever appears, is mentioned, or is mentioned second hand with a different spelling, is some incredible badass having super improbable adventures and the world becomes too damn crowded.
Star Wars isn't better because every single extra in the first movie's Cantina scene has their own EU book. Dresden wouldn't be better if everyone in everyone's backstory was some kind of super awesome badass wizard fae.
mdodd:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on July 16, 2012, 10:19:45 PM ---Mortal women aren't awesome enough? Are too bland?
Murphy and Charity might have something to say about that.
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I think bland is the last word I would use to describe Scarlett Johansson. 8) 8)
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