The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Are there more wizards like Elaine?
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 25, 2018, 05:16:13 PM ---
One has to wonder about Harry though. If he hadn't killed Justin, got caught and put under the Doom, and as a minor in the custody of Eb, wouldn't he also be avoiding the White Council and faking his abilities if he was tested? I mean until he killed Justin and was captured by the Wardens, he didn't even know they existed. The fact that he survived and was placed in the care of Eb, not only his grandfather [unknown at the time] but also highly placed/regarded on the Council would insure a favorable view of the Council.. If he learned about the Council from other points of view, he might well have avoided becoming a member. Or if he had earlier understood his mother's rebellion against them and their prejudice against him because of her, he may also have figured out a way to avoid becoming a member.
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Given that he seemed to have a pretty negative view of the Council even /with/ his experience living with Eb, I'd assume that he'd be at least as distrustful if he'd learned about their idea of "justice" prior to being caught by it. The real catch would be that he'd still need somebody to tell him about them ahead of time. Which, now that you mention it, is a little conspicuous on Lea's part. If she actually thought warning him against them was in his own best interest, she'd have been bound by her Godmotherly duty to warn him. It's a little telling that she did did apparently believe that turning him over to them was the best thing for him, either to be taught by them or to simply learn to Survive them (or both). But she must have had a reasonably strong confidence that they wouldn't actually kill him, or she'd have warned him when she had the chance.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 25, 2018, 05:22:15 PM ---Given that he seemed to have a pretty negative view of the Council even /with/ his experience living with Eb, I'd assume that he'd be at least as distrustful if he'd learned about their idea of "justice" prior to being caught by it. The real catch would be that he'd still need somebody to tell him about them ahead of time. Which, now that you mention it, is a little conspicuous on Lea's part. If she actually thought warning him against them was in his own best interest, she'd have been bound by her Godmotherly duty to warn him. It's a little telling that she did did apparently believe that turning him over to them was the best thing for him, either to be taught by them or to simply learn to Survive them (or both). But she must have had a reasonably strong confidence that they wouldn't actually kill him, or she'd have warned him when she had the chance.
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Well, presumably Lea knew Eb was on the Council. And, from the way it was written in Proven Guilty, I think a Council member in good standing advocating for a one-mistake Warlock during times of peace is pretty likely to get a deferment of the death sentence. After all, one in bad standing during war almost managed it.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Avernite on June 25, 2018, 07:41:27 PM ---Well, presumably Lea knew Eb was on the Council. And, from the way it was written in Proven Guilty, I think a Council member in good standing advocating for a one-mistake Warlock during times of peace is pretty likely to get a deferment of the death sentence. After all, one in bad standing during war almost managed it.
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Indeed. But since he apparently did not (successfully at least) intervene on his own daughter's behalf, it seems odd if not impossible that she'd assume he's succeed with the grandson that he supposedly did not at that point know he had. Unless he knew about his grandson and left him in an orphanage, or later with a warlock.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 25, 2018, 08:00:02 PM ---Indeed. But since he apparently did not (successfully at least) intervene on his own daughter's behalf, it seems odd if not impossible that she'd assume he's succeed with the grandson that he supposedly did not at that point know he had. Unless he knew about his grandson and left him in an orphanage, or later with a warlock.
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Well, we don't know exactly all Margaret Dresden did to get onto the Council's list-for-punishment. For all we know she was far beyond anything like a single lawbreak by the time she broke up with Raith (or maybe hooking up with the enemy, being a political crime, has no such principles for reformation and education as a Warlock has).
Mira:
I don't think Harry knew of the existence of the White Council prior to his arrest, I seem to remember him saying that.
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