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Harry's use of Black Magic
Arjan:
Using black magic taints you, changes your nature. But free will is the ability to make choices against your own nature. It is difficult to do and most people don't but the coice is there not to go full warlock.
Yuillegan:
Hmm. I think that's only possible answer that suits the text. Interesting though that Harry mostly has resisted. But I wonder who else has used lots of Black Magic but hasn't gone full Warlock...Cowl might be a good example, and Kumori.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on February 25, 2020, 05:18:26 AM ---Hmm. I think that's only possible answer that suits the text. Interesting though that Harry mostly has resisted. But I wonder who else has used lots of Black Magic but hasn't gone full Warlock...Cowl might be a good example, and Kumori.
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If you use it a lot then you do no have resisted it and you are a warlock. Not all warlocks get dysfunctional crazy probably because they have other goals in life but in real life the most dangerous lunatics are not in the asylum either.
didymos:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on February 25, 2020, 05:18:26 AM ---Hmm. I think that's only possible answer that suits the text. Interesting though that Harry mostly has resisted. But I wonder who else has used lots of Black Magic but hasn't gone full Warlock...Cowl might be a good example, and Kumori.
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Kumori is interesting because her magic doesn't feel like the other necromancers:
--- Quote ---It felt strange somehow. Dawn had dispersed most of the energy that had been there, but even as an aftertaste of the magic that had been worked there, the cold was dizzying. I’d felt dark power similar to this before today—similar, but not identical. There was something about this that was unlike the horrible aura surrounding Grevane, or that I had sensed from wielders of black magic in my past. This was undeniably the same power, but it somehow lacked the greasy, nauseating sense of corruption I’d felt before.
Butcher, Jim. Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files (pp. 128-129). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.
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Mira:
--- Quote ---As to the Mab literally, personally, physically killing Maeve debate...clearly this has to be an agree to disagree. You have your interpretation of the text, others have a different one. You are welcome to believe your interpretation of course. But I wouldn't expect anyone to agree with you on it, either. You have made your case but I think largely it has been rejected by the rest. You could be right and may well one day be vindicated, but for now let it rest. Your argument is not yet a fact - like a lot of what's in these forums we are all just speculating by and large. Let's just move on.
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Nor has yours been proven, time will tell... Looking at the elephant's tail, Murphy pulled the trigger ergo, it was her, she saved the day... Verses the whole elephant, none of it would have happened had Harry not summoned Mab, who freed Murphy's hand, thus using her... Harry knows, Harry to Mab, "You didn't answer my question." I said. She stopped her back straight. "Was it hard for youto kill Maeve?" Not witness, not enable Murphy, but for Mab to kill her daughter.
Rest my case, yes, let's move on.
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