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McCoy and Bob
Yuillegan:
Interesting idea that McCoy's background (and even the original Merlin's background) might be scion based. I like the research into McCoy's last name.
But no one has so far addressed the Doylist problems: why would Jim name drop McCoy at this point, in this scene, by this character?
Which narrows down the "it could be..." arguments and changes the possible into probable.
So can anyone explain to me why Jim would have Evil Bob name drop McCoy? What purpose does it serve in the scene and the greater story?
Often Jim puts things in scene's which Harry completely ignores or misses. A perfect example is in Chapter 2 where McCoy hints at the true meaning of curse phrase "Stars and Stones" and Harry just snarks back and doesn't bother to uncover it. He is extraordinarily short-sighted still sometimes. But the series is full of them.
Walter the skull:
Yuillegan: I reread ghost story recently and kind of wondered about that line. It's a good thread topic. Bob could be showing off his knowledge to try to intimidate Dresden. As for how Bob could know McCoy's style, he did write at least one textbook on magic. Maybe staff creation is talked about in a text book. Who knows, the white council might have been cool with Bob before he was acquired by Kemmler. Maybe Bob worked for Ebenezer at some point.
vultur:
--- Quote from: Walter the skull on July 08, 2020, 03:39:06 AM --- Bob could be showing off his knowledge to try to intimidate Dresden.
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I think it's probably this.
Evil Bob might not be completely cut off from the post-Kemmler knowledge Bob acquired; Bob was "activated" in Evil Bob mode in DB before Harry made him cut the memories loose totally. So IMO Evil Bob could potentially know that Harry learned from Eb because Bob knew that in DB.
He might not *really* have any personal experience with Eb's style.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Kemmler would have had Bob seek intelligence of McCoy during his possession of Bob and integrated that with existing info, which was hived off.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vultur on July 08, 2020, 06:02:29 AM ---I think it's probably this.
Evil Bob might not be completely cut off from the post-Kemmler knowledge Bob acquired; Bob was "activated" in Evil Bob mode in DB before Harry made him cut the memories loose totally. So IMO Evil Bob could potentially know that Harry learned from Eb because Bob knew that in DB.
He might not *really* have any personal experience with Eb's style.
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We also know from Bob, that he could be wrong about things. We also don't know if Evil Bob can just lie..
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