The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Snoopy, Loup Garou, and Mouse
raidem:
Knnn Linked the video and I transcribed the WOJ:
--- Quote ---Back in Cold Days we had a certain revevation that tied the plots in the earlier books into one cohesive thing, Did you have that in mind when you were writing those earlier books? Or did you tie those later on when you were writing Cold Days.
You are talking about Nemesis right. No, that was there from the get go, and has been showing up, on stage from Grave Peril. There is Nemesis characters showing up in Grave Peril doing things. And there are more of them happen along the way which you don't know about yet Which is why it is such a great threat, it can be completely invisible and transparent and you don't know it is there until later when you work it out and Ooo. My whole point in writing a lot of these books is I try to write it so that you can get a different sense of it later on after you go back and read it again and go Ooo.
And I try to do it in little ways and little things like with Mouse and you eventually work out what Mouse really is and you go back and all of a sudden the scene where he is ferociously attacking Harry Dresden Snoopy doll is a lot different because its the Snoopy doll that has the Loup Garou's blood on it from several books ago and that is what he is smelling and that is why he is assaulting it. He is instinctively good and awesome. There is a lot of stuff I don't bring out. I try not to shove things in everybodys face. Hopefully you get a different sense of it if you go back and read it again. I like rereading books. I like rereading a book and going now that I know the ending this line right here is a lot funnier than it was before. The writer must have been laughing his ass off when he wrote it and hopefully I can give that experience to readers too.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---(Pheonix Comic con, 2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH1nwP9r6-U
At the ~49:50 minute mark.
--- End quote ---
I remember a WOJL where Jim talks about the importance of rereading the series and talks about once the series is done and we reread the scenes with Mouse playing with the doll with Loup Garou blood on it, it will have more meaning. Given that. I'm wondering if anyone knows in which video I stumbled across this WOJ. It is likely the video was pre 7/14/2016 as Knnn makes a posting on Reddit about the same passage Jim refers to.
It looks like Knnn was aware of the WOJ as she commented on the pointed out passage that Jim talked about in the video.
--- Quote ---knnn 32 points 1 year ago
From Fool Moon (trapping the Loup-Garou):
I slapped the Snoopy down in the middle of the circle, then smeared the beast's blood over its eyes and mouth, over its ears and nose. "Thaumaturgy," I said.
From Blood Rites (baby Mouse was left with Murphy):
One of them, a plush Snoopy doll spotted with old, dark stains, lay on the floor. The puppy stood over it, tiny teeth sunk into one of the doll's ears. He shook his head, his own torn ear flapping, and dragged Snoopy in a little circle while letting out small, squeaky growls. The puppy looked up at me. His tail wagged furiously, and he savaged the doll with even more enthusiasm.
...Mouse is smelling the Loup-Garou blood, which is why he is savaging the doll.
--- End quote ---
[3:45 PM] raidem: So Knnn most likely was aware of either my postings on the topic of the WOJL, or the video with the WOJ. She posted that 7/14/2016.
This repeats somewhat what Knnn already quoted.
--- Quote ---I opened the door to SI and stepped inside. The main room was maybe fifty feet long and twenty wide, and desks were packed into it like sardines. The only cubicle walls in the room were around a small waiting area with a couple of worn old couches and a table with some magazines for bored adults and some toys for bored children. One of them, a plush Snoopy doll spotted with old, dark stains, lay on the floor.
The puppy stood over it, tiny teeth sunk into one of the doll's ears. He shook his head, his own torn ear flapping, and dragged Snoopy in a little circle while letting out small, squeaky growls. The puppy looked up at me. His tail wagged furiously, and he savaged the doll with even more enthusiasm.
"Hey," I told him. "Murphy's supposed to be watching you. What are you doing?"
The puppy growled and shook Snoopy harder.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---: I felt the spell grow and prepare itself, and when it was ready, I released the power and broke the circle, feeling it flow out into the night, following the blood back to the loup-garou, winding itself about the creature, blinding its eyes, fouling its ears, lashing around its jaws and forcing them shut, crippling its taloned paws. The spell would hamper and confuse the beast, hopefully drive it to ground where no one could disturb it, keep it from venting its rage upon the people of the city. And it would last until dawn.
[10:41 AM] raidem: "Magic," I clarified grimly. "Make a symbolic link between a little thing," I nodded at the Snoopy doll, "and a big thing. Make it happen on the smaller scale and it happens on the larger scale, too.
--- End quote ---
raidem:
I've watched two videos so far but haven't found it yet.
It isn't... 10/26/2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wregxGQDL4
Nor: 7/9/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gmu76ritoQ
Need to watch this one, I remember having watched it... 8/30/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6RCDkmH1I#t=734
KurtinStGeorge:
I'm not sure where you're going with this. So the next time Harry has to deal with a Loup Garou and gets some its blood, but doesn't have time to do the same ritual he did in Fool Moon, he'll smear the blood on the snoopy doll or something similar, and tell Mouse to chew it up which will drive the big werewolf nuts?
raidem:
No. This already happened in the text. Harry placed a binding spell on the loup garou via snoopy in grave peril. Mouse was playing with blood stained snippy at police station when he was a puppy in blood rites.
There is a wojl where Jim responds to a question about the importance of rereading the series.
Jim, paraphrasing, says that it is important to re-read the series. For example, once you've read the series and go back to read the passage with mouse and a doll with loup garou blood on it, it will have more meaning.
What I'm asking is if anyone knows which video this is in.
Also, what might be the meaning we get on a reread when the series is finished that we don't get now.
My guesses are that it may relate to mouse foo dog abilities and he was sensing something particular about the loup garou with the Snoopy. There may have been some trace residue left on snoopy from being magically tied to the loup garou. Mouse may have injested trace residue of the dried loup garou blood which may result in something. Could someone have meant for mouse to play with that snoopy doll as it was an important event we just don't know why yet.
peregrine:
I figure it's mostly just Mouse recognizing the blood of the Loup as being connected to a threat, as foreshadowing of Mouse's general Foo Doggy powers.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version