The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Love Potion, Huge Violation of 3rd Law?
Mira:
--- Quote ---Langtry's interpretation of the council's 7 laws tends to be all inclusive. All "Time magic" are forbidden and presumed tainting. All "Mind magic" are band and considered black magic. Facts in the series however gave us different signals. As early as book 4, when Elaine casted the mind fog spell, we should have known this is coming. Harry say the magic is illegal, but Elaine does not seem to be turning warlock anytime soon.
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However we haven't seen her in several books... Harry still loves her to some degree so he isn't the best judge, so it could go either way, Elaine may very well have turned into a warlock.
morriswalters:
I suspect Jim likes to keep everyone guessing. In deadbeat Kumori raises someone from the dead. Harry reflects.
--- Quote ---Even worse, if she'd been acting altruistically, it would mean that the dark energy the necromancers seemed to favor might not be something wholly, inherently evil. It had been used to preserve life, just as the magic I knew could be used either to protect or to destroy.
I'd always considered the line between black magic and white to be sharp and clear. But if that dark power could be employed in whatever fashion its wielder chose, that made it no different from my own.
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Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 11, 2018, 02:00:27 PM ---I suspect Jim likes to keep everyone guessing. In deadbeat Kumori raises someone from the dead. Harry reflects.
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Of course it is on purpose. The whole idea is that dresden verse reality is more complicated than those seven laws. That creates tensions.
morriswalters:
I was thinking more on the lines of mad writer, cackling manically, toying with his readers. ;)
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 11, 2018, 04:44:37 PM ---I was thinking more on the lines of mad writer, cackling manically, toying with his readers. ;)
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Only for readers who can not handle that. Magic really would be too simple if it was neatly catches in the seven laws.
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