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WAG McCoy [SPOILERS PT Ch4 + mf "Journal"]
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 29, 2020, 09:05:36 AM ---But also a parent who can not properly start a discussion with his 40 year old grandchild. It is difficult because you will always see him as your baby but at a certain moment you need to handle him as an adult.
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That is a difficult transition, but he has had the last twenty years to attempt it, and he didn't.
SerScot:
--- Quote from: Dina on June 29, 2020, 05:34:00 AM ---Harry instincts have been wrong, yes, but he has soulgazed Eb. I don't think he is so wrong about him. Besides, Eb reaction to Harry's words were (IMHO) more like a caring parent who does not want to admit that what he did was wrong than like a bastard who does not care at all-
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The Soulgaze isn’t a lie detector. Eb’s priorities may sincerely be screwed up.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 29, 2020, 11:06:19 AM --- That is a difficult transition, but he has had the last twenty years to attempt it, and he didn't.
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Because of another problem. How often in those last twenty years did they actually talk to each other? I do not think that much. If you do not see someone that often it is easy to fall into old patterns of behavior.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 29, 2020, 11:33:54 AM ---Because of another problem. How often in those last twenty years did they actually talk to each other? I do not think that much. If you do not see someone that often it is easy to fall into old patterns of behavior.
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True, however if it is important, you make the time. Especially in the light of how alienated Harry was after the first time he and Eb had that talk back in Blood Rites. It took a while for Harry to forgive him for those lies. They have to work together, lives are on the line, Eb should have made the time, for that matter so should have Harry. You don't and you get the little explosions we saw in
chapter four, especially after the angry lecture on Eb's part.. Harry is bound to push back and push back hard because he is working off of limited facts and the emotion from all the pain he has suffered because his grandfather wanted to keep him, "safe." Harry has to have the facts behind Eb's extreme measures to keep both him and Margaret "safe." If he understood it would be a hell of a lot better for both of them.
Regenbogen:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 29, 2020, 02:06:00 PM --- True, however if it is important, you make the time. Especially in the light of how alienated Harry was after the first time he and Eb had that talk back in Blood Rites. It took a while for Harry to forgive him for those lies. They have to work together, lives are on the line, Eb should have made the time, for that matter so should have Harry. You don't and you get the little explosions we saw in
chapter four, especially after the angry lecture on Eb's part.. Harry is bound to push back and push back hard because he is working off of limited facts and the emotion from all the pain he has suffered because his grandfather wanted to keep him, "safe." Harry has to have the facts behind Eb's extreme measures to keep both him and Margaret "safe." If he understood it would be a hell of a lot better for both of them.
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Agreed. They both should have talked long ago and they both didn't. But why? Because they are wizards? Because they are male ;)? Because they are stubborn?
Stubborn: "No, I won't say a thing, until HE hasn't said anything." "Yeah. Me too." Silence. "OK. Bye."
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