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jonas:
I've always attributed Cowl's reasoning that it must be done is because he's from a timeline where it was done. Harry's action to stop it was quite Willfull considering.
Per this and another convo, I just realized if things had gone down at Bianca's how they intended, Harry's ghost would likely be one of those consumed during the hallow. Maybe nothing, but interesting to think about.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Bacchus on December 09, 2017, 06:50:06 PM ---and most importantly the white council would send everyone who could throw a spell to try and stop it when they learned, and they probably would learn because you have to destabilize the barrier between life and death with very heavy use of black magic.
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No sign they did that during or after GP, though. The Council's ability to realise people are doing black magic seems limited to looking at the after-effects.
--- Quote --- The whole city was brought to a state of panic and chaos and that cant be kept secret.
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I've never found the amount of "people in the DV don't believe in magic even when there is lots of evidence because people these days are rationalist" the books rely on to work for me; if nothing else, there is a non-trivial audience in the real world for any number of ways of looking at the world that would love to find evidence for magic.
--- Quote ---remember the kemmlerites had to make a deal with the red court to launch multiple insanely big attacks that kept the white council off their backs.
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That is a way of looking at it, certainly. I don't find it a particularly convincing one because being able to almost, but not quite, keep the Council entirely off their backs would seem rather suspicious to me.
wardenferry419:
While I find the general disbelief in the painfully obvious displays of magic to be a difficult pill to swallow; it is one of the building blocks of the Dresdenverse.
Rasins:
Harry's explaination that most people don't WANT to know about the supernatural, because it terrifies them, is completely plausible, in my humble opinion.
Just look at our history.
Many Germans and Japanese didn't believe in the concentration camps.
Many still believe the Earth is flat.
And let's not talk about the moon landing.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Rasins on December 11, 2017, 06:18:06 PM ---Many still believe the Earth is flat.
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That's the one that's actually making a comeback. I watched an hour-long YouTube video explaining why the Earth was actually flat, with perfectly reasoned arguments that essentially boiled down to "This is a millennia-old conspiracy to con the world into believing something, because..." I've yet to see anyone provide any way anyone could profit from perpetuating the Grand Lie, other than selling globes. And, honestly, what's the margin on those?
Anyway, there are plenty of people who would be totally stoked to find out that magic is real, even with all the terror. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a ghost story, or something similar. I've seen some stuff I can't explain. Personally, I'm reasonably certain that the majority of the population, at least in America, would happily believe that the supernatural exists. It would be too interesting, and, honestly, who wouldn't love watching scientists scramble to explain it?
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