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Kincaid microfiction "Goodbye"
morriswalters:
The one book I don't have in text form. But I listened to it. I stand by my point.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on March 27, 2020, 12:34:53 AM ---But if he didn't involve himself with the various people he coached through getting their powers, some of them could have ended up like the Korean kid resulting in way more suffering than would have been avoided.
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Isn't that the point of the Merlin's lecture to Harry as to why it is best to give all would be young warlocks the chop and ask questions later? Especially since the war with the Reds there are not
enough wizards willing to coach or take on young apprentices to prevent their talents from taking a bad turn. Even fewer wizards willing to face the hazard to try and rehab one, once they start down the road and the cost of failure it too high for the wizard and everyone else.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on March 27, 2020, 12:34:53 AM ---But if he didn't involve himself with the various people he coached through getting their powers, some of them could have ended up like the Korean kid resulting in way more suffering than would have been avoided.
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Exactly how would you know that? Harry can't see the future, and no one can know the results of our interactions. Anymore than I can Know that Kim would have survived had Harry not explained that drawing. But she did die.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 27, 2020, 01:14:12 PM ---Exactly how would you know that? Harry can't see the future, and no one can know the results of our interactions. Anymore than I can Know that Kim would have survived had Harry not explained that drawing. But she did die.
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You can look at the odds... Kim was doomed because she was a zealot for the cause, that affected her thought process that led to her secrecy about MacFinn, her lying about why she wanted the very restricted information, thus her doom.. In her case the mentoring didn't matter one way or the other.
The White Council has instituted almost a "zero tolerance" as far as kids with talent that go astray goes. Why? Because there are too many of them, too few wardens to monitor and channel them to wizards who can mentor them.. Without mentoring and teaching about the dangers and pitfalls of playing with awaking talent, kids experiment. Small things at first, but it affects their minds, their egos, all power corrupts to a certain degree. Hubris, they think if they can pull off little things, maybe as in the case of Molly, if she just adjusted a few things in the minds of her friends, they'd quit using drugs.. We don't know how the Korean kid got started, but I bet pretty much the same way. So yeah, all these kids when their talent awakens, have no understanding of it, experiment with it which usually leads down a very bad path, unless there is intervention. No intervention, warlocks are usually the outcome, that is bad for everyone.. Thus the White Council doesn't even bother with a trial any longer save a pro-functionary soul gaze, then it is off with your head...
morriswalters:
There is no data to derive any odds. And I suppose that you could call Kim a zealot. But given that Jim just sketches her it's really hard to say. She strikes me as someone who is committed and who wears her heart on her sleeve. How we color that sketch may say more about us then the sketch.
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