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Time Travel and Mirror Mirror
DonBugen:
Wild prediction: Harry will go back in time in a future book, only after Ebenezer's unexpected death and Harry's inheritance of the blackstaff.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: DonBugen on July 25, 2017, 04:40:43 AM ---Wild prediction: Harry will go back in time in a future book, only after Ebenezer's unexpected death and Harry's inheritance of the blackstaff.
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I don't doubt that at some point Harry will use the blackstaff.
That said, I can't picture the Council not completely freaking going bonkers over the idea of Harry being both The Warden and The Blackstaff. I can't picture them being OK with any one Wizard having both titles as an ongoing official thing.
Of course, the Council may be upended at some point, too, so it's a whole new ball game.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: groinkick on July 25, 2017, 04:29:20 AM ---I think when time travel happens it will be too big to be in Mirror Mirror where other things will be going on.
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Your probably right, though I supposed if you are going to go futzing with the Timeline, not futzing with your OWN timeline might be the safest way to go about it.
dspringer1:
--- Quote ---I think when time travel happens it will be too big to be in Mirror Mirror where other things will be going on.
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I am on the fence on this one as I see arguments both ways.
1) Time travel can be the anticlimax events where Harry heads home and checks off quickly a bunch of lose ends on his mental to do list based on information he discovered in Mirror Mirror. 2-3 chapters and done -- tying up lose ends basically. This is really how he handled Harry's use of necromancy in dead beat where it enabled a few things to happen, gave us some very nice scenes, but did not dominate the book.
2) Time travel can be the focus of a single book -- in which case we are going to see a complex dance as Harry interrupts enemy plots while dodging around to avoid his own past self or changing history. This option would be the focus of most of the book and probably involve more than one set of time travelers.
I think either option can be good. It really depends on how the time travel "action" is supposed to move the overall series forward.
Rasins:
--- Quote from: dspringer1 on July 25, 2017, 09:52:11 PM ---I am on the fence on this one as I see arguments both ways.
1) Time travel can be the anticlimax events where Harry heads home and checks off quickly a bunch of lose ends on his mental to do list based on information he discovered in Mirror Mirror. 2-3 chapters and done -- tying up lose ends basically. This is really how he handled Harry's use of necromancy in dead beat where it enabled a few things to happen, gave us some very nice scenes, but did not dominate the book.
2) Time travel can be the focus of a single book -- in which case we are going to see a complex dance as Harry interrupts enemy plots while dodging around to avoid his own past self or changing history. This option would be the focus of most of the book and probably involve more than one set of time travelers.
I think either option can be good. It really depends on how the time travel "action" is supposed to move the overall series forward.
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Regarding this and the OP.
It sounds like a lot of Retconning. I really hope Jim has this one mapped out well. I'd rather see Harry travel back in time and meet/do something with his mom or dad, or something. I doubt that'll happen, but I'd prefer that than him jumping around his own personal past.
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