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Harry's Blasting Rod
jonas:
--- Quote from: Rasins on January 03, 2018, 06:57:29 PM ---I hear you, but .... Harry's staff has been observed to be stronger than just the wood. He mentioned once that using it for magic has made it stronger. I was just wondering if his blasting rod would get something like that too.
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Technically his staff is stronger when he's directly channeling kinetics with it or otherwise reinforcing it. Blasting rod is all fire I think. The multipurpose nature of the staff gives it that fringe benefit.
Viktor:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on January 03, 2018, 08:17:48 PM ---Harry's staff is made of oak -- which is already a very hard, very heavy type of wood. I don't recall it ever being mentioned that the workings make the actual wood physically stronger, but six feet of oak is already pretty darn strong.
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It hasn't been mentioned that the /workings/ make the wood physically stronger, but Harry has used his staff + spell (Forzare) to bend metal bars (Fool Moon, p. 175 kindle edition). He also stated later that "Of all my foci, the staff was the most versatile. Meant simply to assist with the redirection of forces I could use to call wind, to bend steel bars, and to channel lightning." (Blood Rites p. 376 kindle edition).
So I think that no, the runes themselves don't give it power, but by channeling power through the Staff, he can make it stronger (see him crushing the "xenomorph" skull in the hallway in Proven Guilty). He probably can't do that with his blasting rod since it's made solely to focus his fire magic in evocation spells.
groinkick:
This is just my opinion, but here goes.
I believe the runes were a type of way the wizard is able to push his intentions onto the magical tool. The runes on the blasting rod were Harry's way of making the object understand his will. It's kind of like when he uses words for spells. The words themselves don't matter, as long as to the caster they carrying meaning. I feel the same way about the runes. He's pouring his focus into them as he carves them so that the magical tool is more efficient at pouring out that specific form of magic.
The staff is an all around good tool, but not great in any one thing while the blasting rod has one very specific purpose. Harry made those intentions clear when he put the runes in.
Rasins:
I can buy the argument that his staff is stronger when he is using it, like in FM. And I can buy that when it's not being used for magical purposes, it's just a hunk of wood.
I wonder if his blasting rod is any more sturdy when he's using it too.
We know he's made several, and that it's not all that strong when not being used. I'm thinking of when Inari broke it over his head in Blood Rites, but I wonder about when he's using it.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Rasins on January 04, 2018, 07:04:49 PM ---I can buy the argument that his staff is stronger when he is using it, like in FM. And I can buy that when it's not being used for magical purposes, it's just a hunk of wood.
I wonder if his blasting rod is any more sturdy when he's using it too.
We know he's made several, and that it's not all that strong when not being used. I'm thinking of when Inari broke it over his head in Blood Rites, but I wonder about when he's using it.
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Belief, will, desire are powerful. I would not be surprised if Harry's need/will/belief would be enough to make the staff stronger.
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