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Was Nemesis in Storm Front?

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groinkick:
When Dresden was using his Sight on Victor Sells home he changed....  Here is a glimpse of it:

"I prepared to destroy the lake house, the Shadowman, and any of the pathetic underlings he had with him.  With such power, I could cast my defiance at the Council itself, the gathering of white-bearded old fools without foresight, without imagination, without vision.  The Council, and that pathetic watchdog, Morgan, had no idea of the true depths of my strength.  The energy was all there, gleeful within my anger, ready to reach out and reduce to ashes all that I hated and feared."

Someone (his mom?) intervened and snapped Harry from this.  I believed that this was either Harry's own taint from the black magic he'd used in the past, or the corruption of the place.  However now I'm wondering if it was Nemesis...  Nemesis doesn't seem to force people to do things, but to use their own feelings, and twisting the person into wanting to act a certain way.  Also part of Harry snapping out of it was him saying his full Name similarly to how he used it against Before. 

Snark Knight:
Unless the WOJ that the first Nemesis character seen directly 'on stage' appeared in GP was a misdirect, I kind of doubt Sells was personally infected, and I don't see why a pool of Nemesis would be hanging around his house if he wasn't infested himself.

forumghost:
I don't think so, I think that Nemesis is a lot more limited then We've been allowed to see so far, and can't just spread around willy-nilly.

The most likely answer to me is exactly what you said- the negative energy of the place itself combined with the marks already on Harry's soul caused him to get drunk on the dark side fpr a second before recovering himself.

Which explains a lot about how the bad-guys in the DF act, really.

Griffyn612:
My guess is that the outsider contagion was present in all of the books, and Nemesis might be able to peak in and influence those people, but we didn't see anyone possessed by Nemesis.

For that matter, I don't know that we saw a Nemesis possession until Summer Knight, when Lea was already under the influence.

jonas:
I've never been able to decide how I felt on that one. On the one hand dark magic and Nemesis are certainly connected, on the other I see no real reasoning why Nemesis would step in to protect Harry here from being influenced by the seething mass of dark magic around sells house. How, cosmologically, that might be enabled or reasoned out or why She'd care. I'm more of an opinion it was his mother, but the two are not mutually exclusive necessarily.... I mean If Morgana's Atheme has a main line connection to N and Margaret is the spiritual successor to the Le Fay name, then I could see her being the influential person mirroring the original and ergo connected similar to Molly's connection to the WL position. But that still wouldn't explain a lot about the situation.

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