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Will Harry meet the real Maeve?
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Rasins on November 03, 2017, 04:10:48 PM ---Yeah, I get it Kindler, but I'm thinking it's a decision, a big decision, that we see, and that makes sense in the circumstances. Like at the end to let Susan go and not start the war.
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Sorry, I meant to respond to you earlier; I think we're generally in agreement. Mine is a pet concept that I'm not willing to let go yet, but the Susan thing is every bit as possible, if not more so, if handled as Gryffyn said. It is not the hill I've chosen to die on just yet, regardless.
wardenferry419:
The difference between one act of reasonable cowardice versus an act of irrational courage.
Cozarkian:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on November 02, 2017, 03:11:33 PM ---Or the choice to not say he loves Susan, which has consequences that spiral for him.
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Absolutely that. The first chapter is Michael grilling Harry about loving Susan and lecturing Harry that he needs to tell her. The book starts and ends with the choice to say I love you so that has to be the big decision to which JB was referring.
Rasins:
See, I don't see that bothering him as much as you think. Sure he did love her, but he was reluctant to say it. If he never said it, he wouldn't feel regret for it with the way things went down.
Then again, it may have been saying I love you, was the thing that stopped Susan from killing him.
Cozarkian:
Michael asked Harry if he loves Susan on the second page of the book and forces Harry to say it out loud. There is also this beauty of language:
--- Quote from: Grave Peril, Ch. 1 ---"Harry Dresden," he said. "You of all people, should know the power of words."
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Then, in the last 50 pages of the book, Harry finally tells Susan he loves her, which is the key to enabling him to break Lea's spell and prevent Susan from going full vampire.
--- Quote from: GP, Ch. 35 ---"I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmothers' spell frayed as though the words had been an open flame, I don't know. . . . I'll say this though: Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. ... Those three words are good ones.
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Several chapters later we see it was of so much importance to Harry to have said the words "I love you" that he was content to die having said them.
--- Quote from: GP, Ch. 38 ---"I love you," I said, or tried to say to Susan. "I love you." She pressed her mouth to mine. I think she was crying. "Hush" she said. "Harry. Hush. I love you , too." It was done. There was no reason to hold on.
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Finally, the book ends with Susan sending a birthday card that only has three words.
--- Quote from: GP, Ch. 39 ---I'll let you guess what three.
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In sum, the start and end of the book is about the importance of Harry telling Susan he loves her and the power that those three words have. If Harry doesn't say I love you, he doesn't save Susan (she probably bites him and gets killed by the poison - he passes out and gets killed by Kravos, but Justine does CPR saving him and helping him get his power back). He then kills Bianca and the vampires out of revenge instead of because he is willing to wage war to save Susan. That is the first step down the dark road.
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