The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
McCoy and Bob
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on July 16, 2020, 07:36:08 PM ---Didn't Eb write a beginner book on evocation magic that all the little wizards read as part of their apprenticeship? At least in normal times? "McCoy style" isn't that big of a deal to notice if he's had a hand in teaching a bunch of wizards.
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Yes, buy Yuillegan's question isn't about inconsequential reasons why Evil Bob would know about it. The question is why would Jim put that in there. Probably not because Evil Bob looked it up in a book.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on July 17, 2020, 03:35:00 AM ---Yes, buy Yuillegan's question isn't about inconsequential reasons why Evil Bob would know about it. The question is why would Jim put that in there. Probably not because Evil Bob looked it up in a book.
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I mean, the simplest reason is Evil Bob was giving an assessment of the magical work on the staff. It doesn't scream any non-inconsequential reasons to me. McCoy's style of evocation magic is well-known.
Bad Alias:
That makes it a throwaway line. "Everybody knows this" doesn't add anything to the story.
Second Aristh:
It's just a nice easter egg for the readers, yeah. Nothing especially noteworthy with respect to Harry.
Yuillegan:
Second Aristh - Bad Alias gets it. There's a million possible reasons. But very few probable ones. There is always a reason that the author does something, and it's never just something that throwaway. Especially a good author like Jim.
Eb did write a book on the fundamentals of moving energy around. Harry claims that all wizards read it, but that is likely a poor assumption. Look at the logic. It would only apply to Wizards of Luccio's generation of wizards at the oldest (depending on when Eb wrote the book). But most wizards probably learned from much older texts that weren't written by a relatively new wizard. In the supernatural world things are measured in centuries and millennia, by those standards Eb's book is a recent addition. The modal age of Wizards was likely higher than Harry's at the time he made that comment, whilst more magical talents are born than ever, they also didn't die out as much as regular humans due to their extended lifespan and propensity to be shut ins. McCoy is more well known as a brawler and assassin than as a teacher. That's very clear from how everyone reacts to him. Evil Bob also wasn't commenting on McCoy's "style of evocation magic" as you put it. If you read the passage carefully you will not he was very specifically referring to the staff that Harry made. He was noting that the staff was in the style of McCoy.
So whilst your reason is possible, it isn't probable because it fails to address why Jim bothered to write the line.
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