The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
In Hindsight, These Story Choices Were a Mistake
morriswalters:
Ghost Story, the whole book. Although I liked Mort's arc. The story has been done better, by Dickens.
huangjimmy108:
--- Quote from: toodeep on July 13, 2018, 07:34:26 PM ---I agree that there are serious issues with some of the black magic interpretations.
Apparently, using black magic, even once with a reasonable cause (self defense) like Harry did against Justin had repercussions on Harry, but in Cold Days as he races from the wild hunt and uses magic to blast a hound the hound turns out to be a human - another use of black magic on Harry's part, but we haven't seen any effect from that.
Additionally, things keep getting redefined in the series as we learn more. Most wizards seem to think it would be fine to kill white court vampires with magic - no black magic twisting them because of it. But over time, we've learned they are scions (per an angel), human enough to become the winter knight, and probably human enough to wield a sword of faith. All things that point to them being human enough that it should be black magic to use magic to kill them, but we've never heard that is the case...
Same argument for the half-reds. They appeared to still be human, with souls and free will, and yet Harry caused the death of thousands of them with the curse, and yet.... no going crazy because of it.
The whole black magic thing appears subjective to the viewpoint of the caster, but then we are told repeatedly that it isn't (both in the books and in WoJ). It doesn't make sense.
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It make sense if we consider one fact. "Nobody's perfect"
Not Harry, and not the white council. In book 1, and during the early parts of the series, Harry is a punk wizard. He is a kid. He knows very little and part of the things he knows is either incomplete or downright wrong. As Harry matures, this misconceptions is corrected thus the changes. And Harry truly matures. Unlike many other Urban fantasies, the DV timeline is more then 15 years with a lot of life changing events and revealed secrets presented.
The white council is also not all knowing. It is confirmed that what the council considered as violation of the 7 laws may not actually be black magic. A lot of them overlapped, but it is definitely not precise representation. In other words, the council's 7 laws is not the Heavenly laws.
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