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Kincaid microfiction "Goodbye"
Mira:
--- Quote ---Depends... Harry was under the Doom until the Council lifted it. He had been considered a full wizard (albeit a disreputable, kitty-literbox'es-his-dress-robes sort of full wizard).
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He was considered to be a full wizard because he was able to kill Justin if I understand it right in supposedly a fair fight. However because he was still under age he was shipped off to live with Eb.
Because he broke one of the Seven Laws, and because some refuse to believe an apprentice could pull of what Harry did unless he was a warlock, many wanted his head.. The Doom was a compromise and the fact the Eb had a lot of pull. You will remember back in Summer Knight some thought that Harry should be demoted back to apprentice because he never completed the number of years of study or took the test or underwent the trial that an apprentice must take to earn full wizard status. Don't ask me what that is but I believe it was hinted at also in Summer Knight.
--- Quote ---But the point is I was responding to Morris's comment that the Doom is simply a metaphor for the responsibility one has when they accept a student. I was just asking what's the scope of that responsibility.
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I believe that is only if you accept a young person with talent who has shown a propensity towards being a warlock but is salvageable, thus placed under the Doom.. The wizard who accepts this charge is then responsible for the rehab as well as further training of the apprentice.. If there is a backslide into warlockhood the wizard gets the chop along with the student.
--- Quote ---I suspect that if Molly had gone warlock, Harry could have escaped execution by turning her in (with the recommendation to kill, instead of clemency); or maybe if he killed her himself.
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I doubt that simply because he pissed the Merlin off when he got her sentence reduced to the Doom.
--- Quote ---I don't think Harry could escape responsibility by killing Molly. That's only partially because Harry didn't have any such orders, but mostly because it's never ever brought up. I don't think the Doom was applied to Eb. Not once does Harry even hint that Eb was under the Doom. I'm uncertain if a wizard could take responsibility for a warlock who wasn't a wizard level talent.
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I don't think Eb was under the Doom either, but not because Harry was already considered a full wizard, but because he was the Blackstaff and under orders to carry out Harry's execution if he stepped out of line.
Bad Alias:
@Morris: What's a meta for? ???
morriswalters:
@g33k
Any sentence that has
--- Quote ---Kim wasn't under the Doom
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has mangled my metaphor. But don't worry about it, metaphor's were made to be abused.
More seriously, ask yourself why he chose to call it The Doom of Damocles? Other then the fact it sounded cool.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on March 26, 2020, 03:38:31 AM ---@Morris: What's a meta for? ???
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A product of my failed education and cabin fever.
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 26, 2020, 04:18:29 AM --- Any sentence that has {SNIP} has mangled my metaphor.
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I see!
May I abuse it further, then?
The "Doom of Damocles" isn't even slightly metaphorical. It's a specific legal doctrine within the White Council.
--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 26, 2020, 04:18:29 AM --- More seriously, ask yourself why he chose to call it The Doom of Damocles?
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Possibly to show that the Council are a bunch of pretentious twits? "Someone stopped us from snicker-snak'ing you, and we think it may have been a mistake. So we'll put a hardcase on YOUR case, and hope for the best (i.e. an only-slightly-delayed snicker-snak). But we'll give it an impressive name, instead of 'delayed murder.' "
Mira:
--- Quote ---The "Doom of Damocles" isn't even slightly metaphorical. It's a specific legal doctrine within the White Council.
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It is, but rarely used because most wizards don't want to take the risk by playing parole officer and teacher to a young warlock.. If they fail the price they pay is too high.
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