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Kindler:
I've been trawling through the collected Words of Jim for the past couple of days instead of doing the work I should be doing, and came across one that I don't see discussed often:


--- Quote ---When Harry is battling Sharkface in the end, is that all in his head, or did everybody there hear?
And the answer to that is yes. It’s all going on in his head, and everybody there heard. Which, if you’ll remember the closing to book 1, because book 1 was written from the perspective of a guy who has already finished his story, um, all the books are really, they're him looking back, you get to the end book 1, and Harry says “My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, but conjure by it at your own risk” which, you know, there’s a reason for that. Figured I’d just throw that in there. Really, Harry’s one of those guys whose name is more dangerous to other people than it is to him, in a lot of ways, a lot of people would be vulnerable by doing that, he’s not. We’ll get to see that in the future.
--- End quote ---
Emphasis added.

Why would Harry's Name be more dangerous to someone else than it is to him? How would Harry's name make them vulnerable, but not him? Consider that, while the entity itself is dangerous, conjuring the Erlking (as far as I can tell, the most dangerous thing Harry has summoned thus far by Name; he guessed some of Mother Winter's names, but didn't have all of them) doesn't make Harry especially vulnerable.

I invite everyone to speculate wildly about what kind of powerup Harry is going to get by the end of the Big Apocalyptic Trilogy. Is he going to become a modern day god? Merge his consciousness with the cosmos? Become the personification of magic? Keep in mind that his name doesn't change.

raidem:
Oh, if mother winter wanted to, Harry would have been quite vulnerable when he summoned her.  The text already showed some vulnerability because he unintentionally hurt her in doing so.

Kindler:

--- Quote from: raidem on September 27, 2017, 01:53:08 PM ---Oh, if mother winter wanted to, Harry would have been quite vulnerable when he summoned her.  The text already showed some vulnerability because he unintentionally hurt her in doing so.

--- End quote ---

Granted, but did the use of her name make her vulnerable as well? Because Jim indicates that Harry's name doesn't make him vulnerable, but whoever uses it.

Still, I'll take it as true and assume that Mother Winter is the upper limit of Harry's powerup.

Could he become... Old Man Winter?  8)

Mr. Death:
The way I figure it, any connection goes both ways.

Making yourself a link to Harry connects you to him, but it also connects him to you. Think back to when the Shadowman is watching him and Susan -- Harry's able to strike him through the spell, something the Shadowman didn't even know was possible.

Harry -- at least at the point where he's writing the books and looking back -- is too hot of a potato for most people to conjure by and summon safely.

Yes, Harry summoned the Erlking safely -- but that was with a specialized circle, and even then it took a significant act of will for him to survive the experience. Imagine if Harry's containment hadn't been perfect, or if he hadn't been able to resist the Erlking's temptation.

jonas:
Look at what is actually contained within MW on a hindu level, what she is an amalgamation of in identities, all contained in the mask of MW. Now imagine Harry, as Harry, containing countless... Say from the popular theory of Dark Hallow on DR. You are what you eat but what you eat becomes a part of you, So all that energy, all those beings are identified under the original. They became Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden in truth. Now imagine calling directly upon such an amalgamous unstable being with literally thousands of forms ad the combined might and willpower of all of them while keeping that Mortal spark of choice....
You CAN'T contain it, you can't stop it. Conjure by it at your own risk...

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