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Reference: X compared to Y = possible Discrepancy?
Serack:
Btw, by moving this thread, I ment the discrepancy thread.
spades8006:
i don't know if this has already been addressed but in dead beat after the power goes out harry and billy are talking in his office the harry rides the elevator down... i don't have my book on me so i can't directly quote the relevant passage
Paladino:
I'm not sure if it has been mentioned, but:
On Backup, Bob tells Thomas that the sorceres/witch didn't kill him because she wouldn't be able to hide the stench of black magic from Harry so soon after casting it. On SF, Morgan confront Harry at Sells lake house after Harry summons Toot, even grab his shoulders, and acuse Harry of killing two person (or it's people?) the night before. Had Harry really comitted such act, he would have the black magic feel on him, and Morgan should know such thing..
So there is a discrepancy, or one day is enough for the stench to go away, or Morgan dislike for Harry was so big he was disregarding evidence of Harry inocence?
I think the last option is unlike Morgan character, as shown at the end of the book. The way Harry describe Black magic foulness, I think it would last little more than a day. So I think it was something Jim hadn't decide so early in the series.
Mr. Death:
Probably has to do with the sunrise. If I'm not mistaken, a full day had passed between Sells blowing up Tommy and Morgan confronting Harry, and the sunrise would have wiped away residue from any spell. Backup takes place over the course of less than a day, with no sunrise in the middle.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: knnn on July 02, 2012, 11:44:47 PM ---Another possible discrepancy is that in Storm Front, Harry feels hopeless because someone got a piece of his hair, yet in Changes, Binder simply shaves his head and dips in the lake, removing all chances of Harry tracking him.
One can get around this by saying that in SF the spell was powered by a lightning storm so maybe that had the ability to target better?
--- End quote ---
I'm doing a reread and I just got to this part, so I've some new insight to add here.
In Turn Coat, Harry mentions that shaving your head would prevent the spell from working, but not if the hair being used had been plucked root and all. In Storm Front, Harry had no way of telling whether the person had tore it out by the root or not, so for all he knew shaving his head wouldn't have helped anyway.
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