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Love Potion, Huge Violation of 3rd Law?
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Paviel on July 11, 2018, 07:29:52 PM ---Fact: Harry Dresden brewed a love potion in Storm Front.
Fact: Morgan never passed up an opportunity to get Harry into trouble as of Storm Front.
Fact: Morgan did not use the fact that Harry had brewed a love potion against him at the end of Storm Front.
Conclusion: The White Council does not consider brewing a love potion to be a violation of the Third Law.
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You're missing the fact that Morgan didn't know about the love potion in the first place.
I mean, yes, from Harry's explanation in other sources, it wasn't a violation, but the logic here just does not work.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on July 11, 2018, 07:31:56 PM ---You're missing the fact that Morgan didn't know about the love potion in the first place.
I mean, yes, from Harry's explanation in other sources, it wasn't a violation, but the logic here just does not work.
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Exactly, see we do agree once in a while.... ::)
Paviel:
How could Morgan not have known about the love potion, when his job was to keep tabs on every magical move Harry made?
It's safer to assume, in the absence of evidence that Morgan didn't know about the love potion, that he did.
Or that brewing a love potion isn't a use of magic, and therefore the Laws of Magic don't apply.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Paviel on July 11, 2018, 07:36:26 PM ---How could Morgan not have known about the love potion, when his job was to keep tabs on every magical move Harry made?
It's safer to assume, in the absence of evidence that Morgan didn't know about the love potion, that he did.
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That logic does not hold up at all.
Morgan clearly and obviously did not know everything magical that Harry did, otherwise Morgan would not have assumed Harry was committing the murders in the first place. He also would have known that Harry didn't summon the demon that he accuses him of summoning.
That Morgan never brings up the love potion means he did not know about the love potion.
Paviel:
I'll conceded that Morgan probably didn't know about the love potion.
But as a point of order: The Third Law says "Thou Shalt Not (Use Magic to) Invade the Mind of Another." Neither the production nor the consumption of a love potion violates that law.
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