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Did Michael lie?
Mira:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on March 11, 2019, 03:49:00 PM ---I think we have different ideas of what "Nicodemus destroys the records every once in a while" entails.
I don't think he picks and chooses what he destroys with that kind of granularity. If anything, that would only give away his intentions -- if you go out of your way to, for example, specifically destroy someone's theorizing on get rid of the Shadow, but leave other things right next to it intact, the logical conclusion there is, "He's afraid someone can get rid of a Shadow," which will only encourage the Church to look into that specific thing even more.
But if you just torch the whole building, the survivors won't know what he wanted destroyed, whether there was anything specific in there or whether he was just in a mood that day and happened to be passing by your library.
That seems more Nicodemus's style, to me.
Fair enough.
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And actually it doesn't matter if Nic destroys the records from time to time, this little fact if it had happened before escaped him... Apparently even he had no clue that the shadow had left Harry.. If he even had thought it possible I doubt that he was have so confidently called to the shadow in Small Favor to take Harry over, adding "we will have a little talk with him later..." He was totally shocked when Harry told him that the shadow didn't live in his head anymore...
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---The title of the thread is, Did Michael Lie?
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And the thread has 11 pages worth of posts after that. At this point, I don't think anyone on the thread is claiming that Michael lied outright; my opinion, at least, is that it's 50/50 whether Michael was told the solution by TWG or whether he exaggerated based on evidence.
--- Quote ---it worked for his wife, she was well on her way to becoming a warlock and that faded when she gave up her magic...
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What's that got to do with anything? Being a warlock is completely different from having a shadow.
--- Quote ---What is constantly repeated is there has to be a reason etc for this faith... No, there doesn't..
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And here is the real world issue I have repeatedly said I don't want to discuss here. If you must keep bringing it up, could you do it on another thread please?
--- Quote ---It has also been suggested that when Michael realized that Harry did indeed rid himself of the shadow he should have admitted that he was wrong, since he didn't,somehow he was dishonest with Harry..
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...What? Have I missed something? I can't remember anyone suggesting this. It was my understanding that Michael did admit that he was wrong when Harry convinced him that he'd gotten rid of Lasciel's shadow.
--- Quote ---I think we have different ideas of what "Nicodemus destroys the records every once in a while" entails.
I don't think he picks and chooses what he destroys with that kind of granularity. If anything, that would only give away his intentions -- if you go out of your way to, for example, specifically destroy someone's theorizing on get rid of the Shadow, but leave other things right next to it intact, the logical conclusion there is, "He's afraid someone can get rid of a Shadow," which will only encourage the Church to look into that specific thing even more.
But if you just torch the whole building, the survivors won't know what he wanted destroyed, whether there was anything specific in there or whether he was just in a mood that day and happened to be passing by your library.
That seems more Nicodemus's style, to me.
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Fair enough. I was thinking more about the timing of when Nicodemus would destroy the records, or if they were kept in different places which one he would destroy.
You're right that it would be really obvious if he was selectively going through each record to destroy them.
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