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Arjan:
--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on July 26, 2020, 10:04:12 PM ---Marcone is his mirror. Harry is also a tiger. He hates Marcone because Marcone accepts himself, and Harry denies himself.
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That is what the monsters say to him he should do, stop caring and become one too.
--- Quote ---It's actually fairly realistic antipathy.
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That is because Harry has a good heart, Morcone has not.
Dina:
Jim is asked “what is the first frivolous thing Harry buys with his gym sock full of diamonds”
Jim’s reply.
(click to show/hide)a basketball goal for the Great Hall
This appears to confirm fan theories following (click to show/hide) the trapdoor scene in Peace Talks that Harry is going to end up in possession of the BFS Building, including his beloved trapdoor. Harry is home[/quote]
I watched it (My favorite part of the interview was Brutus :)). I thought he meant the Great Hall of Edinburgh, I don't remember if the castle one was named great hall at all. I thought that somehow Harry would be able to be back at his basement but I did not imagine the entire castle would be his. I suspect, though, that Mab can eventually buy the whole castle and gave the basement to Harry as his WK dependencies. I am not sure.
I was also surprised Harry did not buy something frivolous before all that.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Grifter on July 25, 2020, 02:39:42 PM ---Is this a good place to bring up (once again) that the size of Marcone's castle seems to exceed the size of the old house Harry lived under?
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The lot of the house I grew up in would definitely be big enough for a small castle or a pretty large tower castle. Castles were a lot smaller than people think. Harry's boarding house was never described with enough specificity for us to know. What were the setbacks, what was the footprint of the boarding house, how many floors does the castle have? We don't really have enough information to say the castle is too big for the lot.
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 25, 2020, 06:25:45 PM ---In the old house he got terribly afraid of fire being used against the house and this was borne out. The castle is stone, that won’t happen.
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Castles can and did burn down. It would just be a lot harder to burn down than an old wooden structure.
--- Quote from: kel0700 on July 25, 2020, 09:05:31 PM ---Jim said harry would be getting a new position of authority.
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I missed that. Was this in the interview?
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 25, 2020, 10:19:55 PM ---Now if only Harry had access to a large fortified building with wards equivalent to Edinburgh in which to work out of with residential facilities, a gym, a boardroom for meetings and a large hall for operations/ training/ function space, he could work from home, a lot of people are doing it now and it is time to drag the White Council kicking and screaming into the world of 20th century employment practices.......hmmmm.
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With the roof being broken, are the wards even there anymore? Harry said if his wards were broken, he'd have to start over.
Working from home was a common practice before the 20th century. Definitely from before the industrial revolution.
--- Quote from: kel0700 on July 26, 2020, 03:57:17 PM ---I don't know why u think marcone would just hand over his castle to the white council or why Harry would want to live there.
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Because Marcone dies in BG and Harry has to take over as Baron of Chicago? Totally don't think that's going to happen, but that's one way to get Harry the castle.
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 26, 2020, 06:03:39 PM ---To a different time zone for the single parent of a school age child?
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What kel0700 said.
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on July 26, 2020, 06:03:39 PM ---Harry is The Warden, the Senior Council cannot take that away from him and everyone will know (Lara, Listens and Eb know at the moment).
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The entire Senior Council knows, except maybe Cristos.
--- Quote from: kel0700 on July 26, 2020, 07:53:56 PM ---From the short story even hand its clear that marcone is expecting to kill Harry at some point.
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He set up defenses because he expects Harry to come for him eventually. Assassinating Harry would actually be relatively easy.
Grifter:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on July 27, 2020, 05:49:07 PM ---The lot of the house I grew up in would definitely be big enough for a small castle or a pretty large tower castle. Castles were a lot smaller than people think. Harry's boarding house was never described with enough specificity for us to know. What were the setbacks, what was the footprint of the boarding house, how many floors does the castle have? We don't really have enough information to say the castle is too big for the lot.
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We know the boarding house was two stories plus the basement. We know it had an empty gravel parking lot next to it, possibly doubling the lot. We know the average lot size in Chicago is 250 ft by 1000 feet (thanks internet!).
We know the castle fills the lot size, save for a Harry-stride distance between it and the sidewalk. We know the castle is four stories plus basement, and has Gargoyles. We know the first floor has a great room large enough and vaulted enough for a sizeable group of people to mingle.
Bad Alias:
I think knowing the average lot size in Chicago is useless. They were probably pretty small before zoning laws mandated them be a certain size. (250 by 1000 feet is huge for a residential lot).
Thanks for the number of stories. I must have forgotten or missed that.
How big the castle is doesn't really answer the question of whether the lot was too small to hold it. My point is mostly that we don't have enough information to tell us that the lot wasn't big enough to hold it either, so we can conclude that it was.
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