The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Peace Talks snippet on Entertainment Weekly
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 26, 2020, 11:52:20 PM ---The Archive knows what was written, it knows everything that was ever written. But whether or not it would translate for Harry through Ivy is another matter. Who knows? I can see Ivy willing to do it because she and Harry have a special bond, but there may be rules against her doing so.
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It is written down. Ivy knows. But beings like Ivy can not just go around and help people, that would make life too easy for everyone else.
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on January 26, 2020, 02:27:07 AM --- ... For all we know Alfred could translate it.
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Harry know some things on the island just by thinking about them, as we've seen him run in the dark, etc.
Magic seems to be different. Harry didn't know, for example, that he could get through the barrier, at the climactic Fae Showdown in Cold Days; that was an educated guess, a deduction... maybe an intuition, that it "should" work that way.
I don't think Alfred knows a lot about the various enchantments. I don't think he's a viable translator.
OTOH, time-travelling Merlin could easily have realized the problem, and left a Rosetta Stone in Alfred's care, just as Maggie left the Way-Stone in Lea's care...
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 27, 2020, 03:22:42 AM ---It is written down. Ivy knows. But beings like Ivy can not just go around and help people, that would make life too easy for everyone else.
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That is true, however Harry may be a special case. 1] He gave her a name and treated her like
the little girl she was, instead of merely a living vessel for the Archive. 2] When she was captured by the Denarians, he risked quite a bit to save her when the Council would have let her rot.. She might feel that she owes him... However that is Ivy the young human woman, not the Archive, let's not get the two confused.
toodeep:
Hmmm. Raises the question of how intellectus works. Could Harry take the books to the island and "just know" what information they contain...
Mira:
--- Quote from: toodeep on January 27, 2020, 03:38:44 PM ---Hmmm. Raises the question of how intellectus works. Could Harry take the books to the island and "just know" what information they contain...
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I doubt it, remember that is why he "borrowed back" Bob, because he needed him to break down
what Alfred was trying to explain to him. If being warden on the island meant he'd just know, he wouldn't have had to do that.
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