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kbrizzle:
The Harry setting a room full of vampires/ Young adults: Anakin personally killing young kings at the Jedi temple was more tongue-in-cheek than serious.

@KurtinStGeorge
The Jedi were definitely wary of Anakin his whole life, as can be seen when they deny him the rank of master even though it’s bestowed on him by the Chancellor (& his power level/ conduct as a general during the Clone Wars more than make him qualified). However while Anakin was being raised/ trained, the Jedi has entered into a galactic war so they didn’t have the time to focus on Anakin, sort of like the WC with Harry & the Ramp war.

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: Yuillegan on May 18, 2020, 12:14:35 AM ---BA - I always hated the Jedi for that sort of arrogance. But the Council isn't far from that I think. Harry often bemoans the fact the Council likes to think it knows more than it does, and doesn't acknowledge that it isn't necessarily the authority on everything (or even most things).

Only Eb thought he could be saved intially - and some others with him.

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I think a lot of the scorn for the Council we see from Harry is misplaced anger over his treatment as a warlock, mostly from Morgan. I think it colors his opinions on the Council's arrogance and everything else about the Council. I'm trying to think of the Council acting arrogantly and can't really come up with any examples. (Examples would be appreciated because I think it's more that I'm not coming up with them than they don't exist).

I'm not saying they aren't arrogant because wizards are arrogant, at least in the DF, but the Jedi had epic levels of arrogance. (Also, the prequel trilogy kind of ruined Star Wars for me, so I'm not half as versed in Star Wars as I was before it came out. I've probably forgotten more about Star Wars than exists in canon at this point. My opinion on Star Wars should be taken with the knowledge that I largely stopped paying attention to anything but movies sometime during the prequel trilogy and then only watched any the "new" ones once or twice).

I'm not sure if "some others" is accurate. He had enough for a majority of either the entire Council or the Senior Council. Either way, more than half of the deciders thought the costs of executing him outweighed the risks of not executing him.


--- Quote from: g33k on May 18, 2020, 11:58:23 PM ---Harry sets the whole place on fire.

AFAIK, it's never been stated whether any of those mortals -- brought in as food&toys by the Reds -- were still alive, or not.  I think the Reds had already been planning a "no survivors" event for the mortals, and it's just a question as to whether the sundry predators had all finished, or not...

At the VERY least, Harry was recklessly careless with his fire magic:  he knew the fires COULD get out of control, and COULD burn helpless mortals.

What Harry (and we) don't actually know is if it went down that way, or not.

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Agreed. I suspect he didn't because Harry seems less prone to temptation to use black magic as the series progresses. He really struggles in SF. After he touches Lasciel's coin, he starts to have anger issues, which I think is a different issue. Now he has another different temptation he has to learn to handle, the Winter Knight's mantle.

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