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Zoo Day spoilers
huangjimmy108:
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 20, 2018, 01:34:03 PM ---Molly did perfect. She could have been a raving warlock messing with peoples brains left and right and now she fullfills a necessary role in the protection of this reality against the outsiders. She is a useful member of this reality.
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She is also heavily traumatize and half way insane before becoming the winter lady. Not voluntarily, I might add.
Unless you are insane, an adrenalin junky or has an over developed sense of responsibility and righteousness, it is best not to be involve with Dresden unless you are at least 30 years old if your are vanilla and 100 years old if you are a wizard.
Associating with Harry is bad for a child's development phase. The child tends to turn rebellious and tends to get into trouble with Harry around. And not your ordinary trouble too.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: huangjimmy108 on June 21, 2018, 05:14:33 AM ---She is also heavily traumatize and half way insane before becoming the winter lady. Not voluntarily, I might add.
Unless you are insane, an adrenalin junky or has an over developed sense of responsibility and righteousness, it is best not to be involve with Dresden unless you are at least 30 years old if your are vanilla and 100 years old if you are a wizard.
Associating with Harry is bad for a child's development phase. The child tends to turn rebellious and tends to get into trouble with Harry around. And not your ordinary trouble too.
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Molly without Harry would have become a warlock, then decapitated. Her becoming the Winter Lady was based on her Choice to get involved with Leanansidhe. As Jim said, the deals Sidhe make with you are designed to get you more, and more tangled up with them.
It's not that Harry Dresden the man is a problem, it's that the world he lives in is so dangerous, and complicated. If you spend time with someone like that you're bound to get dragged into that dangerous world.
huangjimmy108:
--- Quote from: groinkick on June 21, 2018, 05:32:59 AM ---Molly without Harry would have become a warlock, then decapitated. Her becoming the Winter Lady was based on her Choice to get involved with Leanansidhe. As Jim said, the deals Sidhe make with you are designed to get you more, and more tangled up with them.
It's not that Harry Dresden the man is a problem, it's that the world he lives in is so dangerous, and complicated. If you spend time with someone like that you're bound to get dragged into that dangerous world.
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And why does Molly idolize magic so much? Who is the guy that gave the impression that wizardry is a cool job during Molly's childhood?
Harry obviously does not mean any harm and the DV world is not a very nice place as well. But Harry's track record with his first apprentice is not very good. Can't really blame him though, for a wizard Harry himself is still very young.
In my opinion, With the exception of little Maggi, it is better that children stay away from Harry if they want a normal life. I don't know weather it is a blessing or a curse, but those who stay around Harry for too long have a hard time staying normal and ordinary. Extraordinary things always happened around Harry and that in turn, tends to turn those around him into extraordinary people.
It is not all bad, but for children, well, I feell it is a bit much.
Little Maggi though, her fate is sealed. The blood of Dresden run in her veins. Her father is Harry Dresden, her grandmother is Maggi Lefay and her great grandfather is Ebenezar McKoy. Her mother is a journalist who dares to steal an invite to a vampire party. Normal is no longer a part of little Maggi's life. It is best for her to stay with Harry and turned extraordinary as fast as possible.
Carl:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on June 07, 2018, 12:59:24 AM ---Mouse is definitely a canine Harry but with better sense.
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Thats not a hard bar to pass. Also Mouse is adorable.
--- Quote from: Mpol on June 12, 2018, 02:49:25 AM ---Jim has confirmed in a recent signing Austin is just a minor character with no plans to use him in the future... as yet.
I love that Jim has this outline of the series but has kept it loose enough to allow additions and changes to the smaller details.
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As someone who loves to engage in personal worldbuilding i doubt it's that hard for him. Then again i don't know exactly what his worldbuilding and storybuilding process looks like. But if it's anything like mine it's rather easy to juggle things because each scene and each story serves a storytelling purpose, but there's room to change how that purpose is fulfilled by quite a bit. Squeezing extra bits and pieces in isn;t trivial bu it's not as difficult and first thought might make you think. For me the hard part is often filling in the necessary gaps between important scenes. Things need to happen there for the narrative to not be disjointed and thats hard as hells bells.
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on June 15, 2018, 08:50:13 PM ---Mouse's section was such an amazing intersection of hilarious and adorable and so fundamentally Dog that it had me on the verge of tears.
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I know. Daaaawwwwww.
--- Quote from: groinkick on June 21, 2018, 05:32:59 AM ---Molly without Harry would have become a warlock, then decapitated. Her becoming the Winter Lady was based on her Choice to get involved with Leanansidhe. As Jim said, the deals Sidhe make with you are designed to get you more, and more tangled up with them.
It's not that Harry Dresden the man is a problem, it's that the world he lives in is so dangerous, and complicated. If you spend time with someone like that you're bound to get dragged into that dangerous world.
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Lea didn't exactly give Molly any choice from what we know. Lea even pointed it out to Harry in GS that she was required to sub for him by winter law. That said it's not entierly Harry's faulty, he only ended up in the position that got Lea involved because of lasciel.
And Harry is well known for having seen more for his age than is normal.
Probably a combination of being Starborn and especially the fact that he's a open wizard as it where. Most wizards spend their time in their own little strongholds protecting themselves and other wizards. They don't do much to help your average joe. Harry does, that put shim in a position to be in conflict with the bad guys a lot more.
toodeep:
I recently noticed a mistake in Zoo Day, it isn't a big one, but shouldn't Maggie's primary language have been Spanish? We see her thoughts, they are in English, and she never appears to experience language barrier, confusion, or to search for words. She may even still have a Hispanic accent.
I mean, it is reasonable that she may have learned some English wherever she was, but it certainly wasn't the primary language she used. She would only have had to start using English when she moved in with the Carpenters. There has been no discussion of language/culture issues, which is easily explained in most books by Harry being totally unaware of them, even if they existed. But in this book we have her viewpoint, and there doesn't appear to be any acculturation issues.
Just a thought.
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