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Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: Arjan on July 01, 2020, 01:46:10 AM ---Making and maintaining foci also takes considerable time and effort.

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Yeah, Jim has said something like Harry spends 20 hours a week maintaining his magical gear. The reason I feel like it will be a retcon if Harry doesn't end up with more and better gear is that in one of the first books, Harry says he does partial enchantments that wear off because full enchantments are time consuming and expensive, with emphasis on expensive. In Changes, Harry thinks that he has figured out how to extend the life of the enchantments on his duster from 6 months to a year.

With better equipment and materials, Harry should be able to do full enchantments that last longer and require less maintenance because he's rich now. I'm not saying he needs to have his full arsenal back by PT or BG. I am saying he needs to have it back a hell of a lot sooner than it took him to build in the first place. I'm also saying it should be better.

TrueMonk:
Also because I think someone mentioned that he has a gift for creating magical items. I cannot remember who said it though.

Bad Alias:
Bob was impressed Harry was able to build Little Chicago.

g33k:

--- Quote from: dspringer1 on July 01, 2020, 05:05:18 PM --- ...   But it feels like there is another reason as Harry could have gotten tools as they are not that expensive and he had plenty of time on the island before cold days ...

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Uhhhh... What time?

Changes was where Harry lost his staff, the most versatile & powerful of his foci.  And then he died.
Then Ghost Story.
Then Cold Days.
Not seeing his free time.

That mini-trilogy was back-to-back (as Harry experienced them; there was a period of many months post-Changes before GS, but Harry wasn't aware of them).

It's pretty explicit that the time between CD/SG was Harry being a hermit... Which is to say, NOT free to go buy a bunch of tools & gear to rebuild a laboratory... or even a construction-shop...

He was living in terror...  Terror of himself, and of "the M mob" -- Mab, Molly, Michael, Maggie.  Especially Maggie.

Walter the skull:
Harry will rebuild some of his gear over time.  He may not need all  of it.  It's hard to say, but it seems like older wizards have less gear than Harry had.  Harry may learn to live without the gear before he get a around to making new gear.  While I'm disappointed that he doesn't have his full kit, it makes sense.  Money alone isn't enough to rebuild all of the materials and tools that Harry had.  He spent years collecting that stuff, and let's face it, he probably doesn't have that many opportunities to acquire stuff like depleted uranium.

I also think we missed a minor power up.  In Grave Pearl when Harry eats Kravos to get his own power back, he also eats Kravos's power.  I may be wrong about this, but it seems like he started using more fire magic after that. 

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