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Why Conjouritis, Why??

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Conspiracy Theorist:
Why? why???

Harry normally acts under some injury or other, but why this silly, silly made up disease? Has Harry run out of bits of anatomy to be shot in?

It is in my opinion only justifiable if it has some prolonged impact upon Harry, for example that wizards do not come into their full power until they have got over conjouritis. The wizard population is too small and too spread out for it to be a virus or bacteria, it just couldn’t spread enough to continue within an active population, unless vanilla mortals are asymptomatic carriers, but then Harry would have picked it up years ago. This suggests that it might be a developmental condition related to magic users rather than a disease, like descending testicles for mortal men, part of the maturation process.

The only other distinguishing point physiology speaking Harry has in relation to other wizards is that he is Starborn, which gives protection over Outsiders. Is his delayed Conjuritis related to that?

But why?????

Regenbogen:
I thought that disturbing, too. I was hoping it was an early sign of conjuring and shape shifting abilities. And not some children's disease. But it could still be. I'm not giving up hope. Also, I can't imagine, Harry has never heard of that. Except, someone manipulated memories, either Harry's or those of everyone else, so that they told him, it was a disease and not some curse or some new abilities. As to why, I have no idea. Let's wait and see.

OK, maybe one idea: it could be developing a new talent, that would make him more dangerous, if he concentrated too much on it to learn to master it, so some adversary tries to make it appear as something else. Maybe a talent that isn't practiced, withers and dies, or one does never gain control over it.

I was thinking on manipulation of memories that have knowingly occurred in the books until now.
There was the missing blasting rod and therefore fuego in Small Favor through Mab and the memory manipulation by Molly in Changes, so that Harry forgets that he has hired a killer.
I counted only manipulations directly involving Harry.
And there were the mind magic attacks by corpsetaker in dead beat.

mrbassman:
People have drawn parallels with Tavi.

He made the bargain with Lea and never fulfilled it. Lea told us at the Red Party that it affected his power.

With him taking the Winter Mantle all bargains are fulfilled and he has access to his full power for the first time since adolescence. Without Bob or someone else to explain when "young wizards" usually get it will have to guess. After no sign of it with Molly and she was a wizard in her late 20s.

Mira:


  Weak attempt at comic relief? ???   Other than that is seemed pretty pointless except maybe to
point out that Harry is still a mortal.  He may have a mantle that numbs him to physical pain, but
he still can get injured.  He is a powerful wizard and a star born, but he is still human and not immune to catching the same things that the rest of us are, i.e. allergies, colds, and yeah, childhood diseases.  We all know there are vaccines against the likes of measles and mumps now, but some do not get them and if an adult catches one of these diseases it can be lot more serious than in their kids.. 

My theory is little Maggie had it, we know that she has talent from the short story, but Harry doesn't.
If she had a very mild case, especially since he had never had it before and doesn't know she has
talent yet, he may have thought it was a mere cold and he simply caught it from her.  Welcome to the "Parent's Club" Harry, we share a lot with our kids, and they share a lot with us, that includes any contagious diseases that we don't have an immunity to.  So I think it was thrown in there simply to underscore that little Maggie has talent, she had the wizard's childhood thing, Harry didn't recognize it, caught it, got sicker because childhood diseases are almost always harder on adults.

ClintACK:

--- Quote from: mrbassman on July 21, 2020, 11:27:27 AM ---People have drawn parallels with Tavi.

He made the bargain with Lea and never fulfilled it. Lea told us at the Red Party that it affected his power.

With him taking the Winter Mantle all bargains are fulfilled and he has access to his full power for the first time since adolescence. Without Bob or someone else to explain when "young wizards" usually get it will have to guess. After no sign of it with Molly and she was a wizard in her late 20s.

--- End quote ---

I like it.

I also think his experiences in Ghost Story (where he learned how ghosts can make stuff out of memory) could give him a unique perspective on conjuritis.

Controlled conjuration, with the stabilization technique Eb uses on the bucket in the cornerhound fight, could be a really powerful technique.

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