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Harry's use of Black Magic
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: g33k on February 26, 2020, 08:35:39 PM ---But he used modern(ish) language, modern(ish) accent, and a vernacular construction that originated in 1934. So he is a relatively-recent arrival to the prison.
Unless you wish to posit that the prisoners can learn such things from an ambient gestalt or "overmind" of some sort... But he spoke of a "stasis" (that Harry was disrupting) which doesn't sound like he would have been learning during that time.
I think this (mid/late 1930's (maybe 1940's (maybe post-WWII?))) is the last time there was a Warden, and this prisoner went in at that time.
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He could have something like Toot when it comes to language; see Toot's explanation for where he learned to speak Russian in Changes.
Something I noticed last time I read Turn Coat was that when Shagnasty arrives on Demonreach, the island is apprehensive. Taking prisoners even on the island may be more difficult than some have theorized.
noblehunter:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 28, 2020, 04:46:59 PM ---He could have something like Toot when it comes to language; see Toot's explanation for where he learned to speak Russian in Changes.
Something I noticed last time I read Turn Coat was that when Shagnasty arrives on Demonreach, the island is apprehensive. Taking prisoners even on the island may be more difficult than some have theorized.
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Harry wasn't properly Warden then. There's commentary later (the beginning of Skin Game?) that he could take Mab down if she set foot on the island on he'd gotten up to speed on what the island could do.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 28, 2020, 04:46:59 PM --- He could have something like Toot when it comes to language; see Toot's explanation for where he learned to speak Russian in Changes.
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That's a fair point.
I suppose the thing where he was "trying to recall" the phrase could merely have been a rhetorical flourish.
Everything about that figure is at the pretty-wild end of the WAG spectrum, just because we know so little about it... except that Harry is going to revisit that figure, one way or another.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: noblehunter on February 28, 2020, 06:30:33 PM ---There's commentary later (the beginning of Skin Game?) that he could take Mab down if she set foot on the island on he'd gotten up to speed on what the island could do.
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That's why it kind of surprised me.
Mira:
--- Quote from: noblehunter on February 28, 2020, 06:30:33 PM ---Harry wasn't properly Warden then. There's commentary later (the beginning of Skin Game?) that he could take Mab down if she set foot on the island on he'd gotten up to speed on what the island could do.
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Actually it was at the end of Cold Days.. Page 502, Molly just got the mantle and Mab is threatening Harry with a gun, they were having a little debate about who is who's servant...
and Harry says;
--- Quote ---"Demonreach," I said. "If our guest pulls that trigger, take her below and keep her there."
The guardian spirit's vast shadow fell over us even though there was nothing actually casting it, and Mab's eyes widened.
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So while Harry at that point might not know everything there was to know about the island or being it's warden, it is clear that on the island he had the authority to jail the Winter Queen if he so ordered.
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