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prince lotore:
I don’t understand the actions of Luccio in a fist full of warlocks. We have seen Morgan try to cut people’s heads off for even the slightest infractions (granted Morgan thinks everything harry does is dark magic but still) and Morgan has modeled himself on how Luccio has acted in the past. Spoilers after this point.......... but when have Luccio with someone she knows is a user of black magic.  Someone who is the leader of a cult of warlocks.  His people are coming to kill her and free him and she doesn’t do anything but neutralize his magic.  they were going to kill molly without a trial if it wasn’t for Dresden but Kemmler gets his day in court.  Why didn’t she cut his head off the second she found out they were necromancers? I find it difficult to believe that warden justice favored the accused rights during the wild west more than it does now.   I understand from a story perspective Kemmler has to live but if a beat cop let the guy go that ends up starting WWI how does that cop does not get to be head of the wardens

RobReece:
Could it be that her knowledge of Kemmler was sufficient that she knew that removing his head would not be enough to end him?  That it was better to return him to the council in one piece so that it could be done completely?

Quantus:

--- Quote from: prince lotore on July 27, 2017, 03:26:12 PM ---I don’t understand the actions of Luccio in a fist full of warlocks. We have seen Morgan try to cut people’s heads off for even the slightest infractions (granted Morgan thinks everything harry does is dark magic but still) and Morgan has modeled himself on how Luccio has acted in the past. Spoilers after this point.......... but when have Luccio with someone she knows is a user of black magic.  Someone who is the leader of a cult of warlocks.  His people are coming to kill her and free him and she doesn’t do anything but neutralize his magic.  they were going to kill molly without a trial if it wasn’t for Dresden but Kemmler gets his day in court.  Why didn’t she cut his head off the second she found out they were necromancers? I find it difficult to believe that warden justice favored the accused rights during the wild west more than it does now.   I understand from a story perspective Kemmler has to live but if a beat cop let the guy go that ends up starting WWI how does that cop does not get to be head of the wardens

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Well, in point of fact Molly would have had a Trial, by the council's definition, just not much of a fair Hearing, and no time for Appeals.

As to why she didnt immediately go all Judge Dredd on them, she started with evidence against only Page, (who'd killed and worse several people), she knew from her magic glasses they were warlocks, but had no proof of Law violations, and no desire to take odds she didnt think McCoy could survive.  And doing so would have also put her at odds with the Sherrif, who was already expressing dubiousness over the "fairness" of the trail page was to be taken to; a summary execution of a man already in prison who by both sets of Laws was guilty of threats Only?  Nope, not gunna fly.  Though Im sure she's wished over and over that it had fallen out differently, in the years to come.


Also, just because Morgan was trained by Luccio and later became an intolerant ass with barely any integrity left does not mean that is what Luccio was or ever became. 

dspringer1:
It may also be that in the past the White Council made more effort to evaluate and test warlocks with the intent to save a few.  After all, the White Council is not what it once was....

I wonder when the Merlin took over.  Not saying the Merlin is evil, but he is not a man who sees the little people as important except in the abstract sense.   He is a "some eggs must be broken if we are to protect our position" type person

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: prince lotore on July 27, 2017, 03:26:12 PM ---I don’t understand the actions of Luccio in a fist full of warlocks. We have seen Morgan try to cut people’s heads off for even the slightest infractions (granted Morgan thinks everything harry does is dark magic but still) and Morgan has modeled himself on how Luccio has acted in the past.

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I'm not sure whether the short story is supposed to have been before she had Morgan as an apprentice, or after he had already graduated and struck out on his own. But if it was before, I could certainly see Luccio blaming herself for not taking the chance to kill him before she realized his identity, and going through a stage of being more brutal to all warlocks as a reaction that just happened to coincide with Morgan's formative years.

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