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Morgan's Journal Revisited
Mira:
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Or, well, I think more accurately he wasn't good at thinking outside the box. Morgan wasn't dumb, but he was a straight-line A-to-B thinker... like most of the older wizards, it seems.
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Morgan was a good soldier, that doesn't mean that he was stupid, he wasn't. However neither was he clever, or rather he lacked imagination. When you lack imagination, you cannot see the big picture.
--- Quote ---Morgan wasn’t an investigator, he was an enforcer, when he needed an investigator, he went to Harry.
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Yes, that is the point, an enforcer merely has to be a believer, he carries out orders, it doesn't require a whole lot of thinking. An investigator is a odd combination, he has to have an imagination, but at the same time he must deal in facts. They are what they are, no belief required, then he has to be able to think to make them add up, or not.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: vultur on August 28, 2020, 02:04:28 AM ---And he still did ignore Harry's warning about the Summer/Winter issue in SK; I don't think that's explainable as just testing Harry.
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That's a good point. I have no excuse for him there.
Re: not an investigator, I'm not sure we have any basis to judge that. He's one of the Council's top wardens, not a member of the Brute Squad. In Storm Front, his plan to hold on to Harry through the storm and see if that stopped the killing was a pretty good out-of-the-box plan. It only looked stupid to us because we knew Harry was telling the truth about being the next target.
Mira:
--- Quote from: ClintACK on August 29, 2020, 02:15:15 PM ---That's a good point. I have no excuse for him there.
Re: not an investigator, I'm not sure we have any basis to judge that. He's one of the Council's top wardens, not a member of the Brute Squad. In Storm Front, his plan to hold on to Harry through the storm and see if that stopped the killing was a pretty good out-of-the-box plan. It only looked stupid to us because we knew Harry was telling the truth about being the next target.
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However if Morgan had done what you say, all he would have accomplished would be witnessing innocent Harry's heart being ripped from his body since he was the next target if he didn't get to the house to break up the ritual before the storm broke out. Either way Harry was dead, since if his heart wasn't torn our of his body, Morgan would assume he was guilty and lopped off his head. Yeah, great plan.
ClintACK:
You're looking at it from our (Harry's) perspective and with our knowledge. Yes, it would have gone horribly wrong, but Morgan had no reason to believe that. (Harry's claim that he was the next target came *after* he heard Morgan's plan, so it was a particularly convenient thing to say...)
Compare to Harry's clever plan in Proven Guilty -- the one that sends the Fetch right past all of the Carpenter residence's protections to whisk Molly off to Arctis Tor.
That's about as spectacularly wrong as a plan can go. It went that wrong because Harry didn't have enough information. Same with Morgan's plan in Storm Front. It was a good plan that would have gone spectacularly wrong because Morgan didn't have enough information.
Mira:
--- Quote from: ClintACK on August 29, 2020, 04:00:29 PM ---You're looking at it from our (Harry's) perspective and with our knowledge. Yes, it would have gone horribly wrong, but Morgan had no reason to believe that. (Harry's claim that he was the next target came *after* he heard Morgan's plan, so it was a particularly convenient thing to say...)
Compare to Harry's clever plan in Proven Guilty -- the one that sends the Fetch right past all of the Carpenter residence's protections to whisk Molly off to Arctis Tor.
That's about as spectacularly wrong as a plan can go. It went that wrong because Harry didn't have enough information. Same with Morgan's plan in Storm Front. It was a good plan that would have gone spectacularly wrong because Morgan didn't have enough information.
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Nobody is saying that Morgan is dumb, he is a good soldier, but he lacks imagination and curiosity.
And why would Morgan's plan have gone so wrong in Storm Front? Because he couldn't imagine the larger picture, alternate causes for the murder.
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