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Storm Front hints and questions

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Mira:


   I thought that Harry killed the demon, but could be wrong there.   Sells if I remember correctly
had a little talent, got a hold of the wrong kind of books, in Star Wars terms, used the "darkside" to gain power and became a sorcerer as opposed to a wizard..

Bad Alias:
Harry blasted it with lightning when he was naked in the street with Susan. That "killed" it, but at that point in the series, Harry had said that you couldn't kill demons from the Nevernever, but could basically banish them back by destroying their physical bodies. Victor re-summons it at the lake house fight.

On the whole "where did he get his power" question, that was intentionally left up in the air. What we do know is that he was somewhat strong, he didn't develop his talent until he was older (old enough to have a wife and kids approaching teenage years), and he wasn't well rounded.

In every other instance of developing supernatural abilities, it seems like it is something that first manifests in adolescence or shortly after.

kbrizzle:
I think that was what made Sells a real danger - the fact that he likely didn’t fully understand what he was making & that he was able to punch way harder than someone in his weight class should’ve been capable of. All of this points to a sponsor of sorts.

We see in Blood Rites that Lord Raith is using the magical number of 3 witches (Harry even jokes about this) to summon HWWBehind - I doubt any of the 3 (even Madge) really knew what HWWB was - Harry didn’t himself until later in the series. So it wouldn’t be a great surprise that Sells didn’t fully understand the implications of 3Eye.

The genius of 3Eye was that it neatly circumvents the Laws of Magic, rendering the Council useless here - they send Morgan to basically stake out the bad guy until he makes the most minor of infractions because they don’t have anything else on him (of course Harry was the wrong target). But 3Eye’s main purpose in my opinion was to open humanity up the reality of the supernatural & make them hostile to it.

Bad Alias:
I was rereading Storm Front this week. Someone here recently pointed out that Harry notice's something weird about his and Murphy's shadow when they are in the elevator. And then it is never mentioned again. Having recently read that point and this thread, it occurred to me that perhaps Nicodemus was the unseen mentor to Victor Sells.

We're lead to believe that the exploding heart spell is from RCV because Martin knew about it from his time as a priest to Kukulkan. We're also lead to believe that the point of Storm Front was to test out the spell. Why would the RCV need to test out the spell? The Red King was 5,000 years old. Presumably he would know whether or not and how the spell worked because he was around.

Besides the shadow thing, why Nicodemus? All I got at this point is that Nicodemus said that the RCV needed to be destroyed and it was.

Mira:


    Victor got the juice for his spells from two sources, the lightning storms and the sexual act put on by the  Beckitts.  He also made the mistake of thinking the frog demon was under his control, not realizing that he was being used.   I seem to remember somewhere Harry saying these were the elements of sorcery and black magic, not a whole lot of inborn talent or power needed..  So Victor was a minor talent began to play with it not knowing what he was doing, got a hold of some serious books on sorcery, got addicted to the power trip it gave him and was off to the races..

--- Quote ---Besides the shadow thing, why Nicodemus? All I got at this point is that Nicodemus said that the RCV needed to be destroyed and it was.
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No, that was Victor projecting himself.

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