The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers

In Hindsight, These Story Choices Were a Mistake

<< < (4/15) > >>

peregrine:
The Loa Harry calls up talks about the darkness that has stained him (or something like that) and while he says that's mostly other people's staining that's touching him, he admits it's not all other people's doing.  Which I took to include him whacking Justin.

groinkick:
We also don't know if wizards who specialize in subtle magic like Molly can mask other wizards from sensing their dark magic stain.  Peabody was probably aided by someone, or something that knows how to cover it up too... 

Gman:
I think most powerful beings/factions have limitations put on them in the story. I think that it is not random about Wizards messing up tech. I think someone powerful or a powerful faction put this limitation on wizards. Such as the Fae can't lie or their bane is iron. I think a possible explanation is wizards change reality. If reality is becoming less fixed and more fluid, some things can be less reliable and more things can go wrong especially things that are sensitive. Some things explained by Harry in the DF may be because Harry is young and inexperienced and not 100% correct. I was in the Army and shot many weapons. I've had weapons jam on occasion. Some were more reliable than others. I had an M-16 that jammed frequently and I asked the Armorer to change with another one that never seemed to jam (it was a really old one from the Vietnam era vs the unreliable fairly new one). I've had M-60s jam rarely and I've never had an M-2 jam on me. I've also had dud rounds or rounds that even partially exploded and left a bullet in the barrel. That can cause the weapon to explode if you shoot another round without clearing the bullet out of the barrel.

Fcrate:

--- Quote from: Mr. Death on July 13, 2018, 11:52:01 PM ---Harry tends to detect it one of two ways -- either by skin-to-skin contact, or when they're actively casting magic at him.

And it might fade -- in Blood Rites, Harry specifically says that the one witch didn't shake his hand because she'd cast black magic recently and wouldn't be able to hide it if he'd touched her hand.

Peabody's hands are probably stained with ink, and every time we see him on-page, he's got a bunch of papers in his hands. I can buy that he could avoid casual skin-to-skin contact. DuMorne was distant enough from Council stuff when he had Harry that Harry didn't know the White Council existed.

--- End quote ---
He was a warden. Frequently in the company of other wardens. It's their job, and one of the reasons Harry didn't want to become one. Too many secrets, and that's for a good guy. I agree with you at the peabody thing. I didn't think of it that way.

--- Quote from: peregrine on July 14, 2018, 02:20:30 AM ---The Loa Harry calls up talks about the darkness that has stained him (or something like that) and while he says that's mostly other people's staining that's touching him, he admits it's not all other people's doing.  Which I took to include him whacking Justin.

--- End quote ---
She smelled Dark magic on him, and I when he said it's not his, I took it to mean that's the remenants of the dark energy he bit off Leonid Kravos. Yes, the rest include whacking Justin, and a few other nasty stuff.

Mr. Death:

--- Quote from: Fcrate on July 14, 2018, 09:02:33 AM ---He was a warden. Frequently in the company of other wardens. It's their job, and one of the reasons Harry didn't want to become one. Too many secrets, and that's for a good guy. I agree with you at the peabody thing. I didn't think of it that way.
--- End quote ---
We don't know when Justin went bad, though -- he might not have turned to dark magic until after he left the Wardens.

Thinking about it, what we know of his attempts to enthrall Harry and Elaine may well indicate he wasn't very well versed in it -- he needed Elaine's help to subdue Harry, he had to take them one at a time and planned to restrain Harry physically... and even his enthrallment of Elaine apparently wasn't total, since she sneakily used a binding spell she knew Harry could break.

So in sum, I don't think we can use Justin as an example until or unless we have a better idea of just how often he actually used black magic.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page