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MoroccoMole:
So I was reading GroinKick's thread on previous wardens ( http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,47345.0.html ) and remembered this from Cold Days:

“Hey, how come you called me Warden?” I asked. “I mean, I’ve been a Warden, but there are a lot of other guys who are better at it than me. I’m not exactly the poster child.” “WARDEN,” Demonreach said. “NOW THERE ARE MANY. FIRST THERE WAS ONE.”

Who are these people?!  Don't they care that there's a noob on the island? 

Why doesn't Harry ask who they are?  He's creating a sanctuary for himself, shouldn't he care about who has keys to it?  He doesn't mention anything about it in Skin Game in his, "After the year I've had here, I could stop that Outsider incursion of last year before my morning coffee" bit. 


If Eb, the GateKeeper, and Listens all know about this, and i think they do because they all kind of react the same way, then i think it's possible that they could be wardens and were letting the Noob do a trial by fire with the whole Outsiders' incursion.  Risky & frightening, but a true test of a warden.  Or, and this to me is even scarier, Eb, the GateKeeper and Listens aren't wardens and just know about the nature of the island.  Then if there are other wardens besides Harry, they either don't care about their responibilities, or have grown so much that they think that DR and the inherent risks are beneath their concern.

~M

groinkick:
Hey could you say where DR says that?  I don't remember it.  The first thought that jumped into my mind is that Alfred doesn't really know what death is, and so there could be a lot of Wardens who have died, but to Alfred they are still Wardens.  On the other hand maybe there are other Wardens walking around.  Good topic to go over.

ClintACK:
I thought he meant that the term "Warden" used to refer to the White Council police force is a nod to the position of DR's Warden.  That once upon a time DR's Warden was the head of the White Council's police force.  Or something like that.  But DR was always something of a secret, so people didn't realize that.  And the origin of "the Wardens" was lost to the memory of all but a few senior wizards... and DR itself.

At the time, I remember speculating that Harry's role as DR's Warden comes with some official status and/or responsibilities in the White Council (something adjunct like the Blackstaff, and similarly not something most wizards know about) -- something that could come up during Peace Talks, perhaps, and make Harry's life more complicated.

MoroccoMole:
Page 154 on my kindle version. It's right as Harry is finishing his first descent into the well with Bob.

Second Aristh:
Yeah, Demonreach is referring to the wardens as the White Council's police force.  There's a WoJ floating around that it isn't a coincidence that the warden cloaks are grey and match Alfred's.

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