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Kincaid microfiction "Goodbye"
Bad Alias:
I just think Jim didn't do a great job writing his second book. I think FM is the worst book in the series. The characters' motivations are confusing. Jim's characters are much fuller and more believable in basically every other book. The only other character problem I have is the role reversal of Murphy and Harry from GS to SG. I have a problems with a lot of stuff Harry does from a "stop being an idiot" perspective, but that fits the character Jim has written.
Kim could have been written in a way to where we understood why she did something so stupid, or, better yet, the scene could have been written where Harry gave her enough information to think she could do it, but withheld some critical piece of information that would have stopped any rational person from attempting it.
@g33k: MacFinn had industrial interests; I don't recall whether or not it was inherited wealth.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: g33k on March 27, 2020, 10:49:47 PM ---
Maybe the jihadist "dying in the right cause guarantees heaven" mindset will intentionally "die trying" (with no expectation of success).
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Zealots do not die trying. They know they will win, they have god on their side after all. They die knowing they did the right thing, they know their side will ultimately win etc.
--- Quote ---I don't think we have ANY evidence that Kim was in that sort of mindset.
Instead, I think she seriously hoped she COULD do it. She knew the consequences of failure -- not just that she might die, personally; but that her beloved cause would be WORSE OFF. Consequently, she would have been expecting to succeed... or at least, seeing this course as the best odds of success.
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I think she just saw no alternative to trying. She probably considered telling Harry more but deemed it too dangerous.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on March 28, 2020, 10:04:01 AM ---Zealots do not die trying. They know they will win, they have god on their side after all. They die knowing they did the right thing, they know their side will ultimately win etc.I think she just saw no alternative to trying. She probably considered telling Harry more but deemed it too dangerous.
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Which was her fatal error, that, and being over confident in her own modest abilities.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on March 28, 2020, 12:25:05 PM --- Which was her fatal error, that, and being over confident in her own modest abilities.
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We know Harry a lot better than she did.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on March 28, 2020, 02:28:04 PM ---We know Harry a lot better than she did.
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That is also true, which is part of my argument that though he called her his sometime apprentice, that wasn't the kind of relationship they had because by Harry's own estimate, her talents were modest at best, ergo she wouldn't be White Council material, i.e. a future full wizard. So if he told her anything about the White Council, it would be little because there is a lot he was not allowed to say. And if she really had the kind of close relationship a master/apprentice is, she should have known she could have trusted Harry to help, especially in this case.
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