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I am 99% sure that Cowl is Dresden from the future
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---"Just as well," Cowl murmured. "I have wanted to see for myself what has the Wardens so nervous about you."
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This is about as definitive as it gets.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 30, 2020, 01:08:08 AM --- That proves nothing.. Not to mention that the Harry of this time learned how to use Darkhallow, so the Harry of the future i.e. Cowl would still have that knowledge and not need the book. Further why would he have to come back in time to set if off knowing that his past self would stop him?
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he didn't know his past self would stop him, what harry did when he stopped it was obviously a choice.. he was probably trying to keep Harry from reading the book to begin with. I just said it was about changing the fate of the book itself, not Cowl learning how to do the dark hallow.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 30, 2020, 01:21:42 AM ---This is about as definitive as it gets.
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Even if future Harry had forgotten quite how far along his brawling skills were that particular year, there's still the question of how he'd know what the wardens thought of him at that point in time.
Now, you can speculate that present Peabody passed their reports to future Harry as Cowl ... but Simon would have been receiving those same reports up until his "death".
Marconesque:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on August 30, 2020, 02:44:49 AM ---Even if future Harry had forgotten quite how far along his brawling skills were that particular year, there's still the question of how he'd know what the wardens thought of him at that point in time.
Now, you can speculate that present Peabody passed their reports to future Harry as Cowl ... but Simon would have been receiving those same reports up until his "death".
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He knows his skill vaguely because he's likely older several decades, so how could he imply he knows about it to Harry without revealing his identity?
Of course he needs to be manipulative and lie to Harry, imagine if he would outright say
"I have a vague memory of your, or should I say my skill, so let's see what my past self was all about"
Mira:
--- Quote from: Marconesque on August 30, 2020, 07:12:54 AM ---He knows his skill vaguely because he's likely older several decades, so how could he imply he knows about it to Harry without revealing his identity?
Of course he needs to be manipulative and lie to Harry, imagine if he would outright say
"I have a vague memory of your, or should I say my skill, so let's see what my past self was all about"
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Current Harry is very well aware of the lack of refinement of his skills, this is a huge point about
him until he takes on Molly as an apprentice. This forces him to actually go back to school as you will so he can be a decent teacher for her. It is very unlikely that he would forget this, wizards don't.
Isn't there also a "rule" concerning time travel? Why it is discouraged or forbidden about the consequences of meeting one's self in the past or future? Cowl would know about this and it is unlikely he would deliberately confront his past self.
--- Quote ---he didn't know his past self would stop him, what harry did when he stopped it was obviously a choice.. he was probably trying to keep Harry from reading the book to begin with. I just said it was about changing the fate of the book itself, not Cowl learning how to do the dark hallow.
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Oh, well for a guy who wasn't interested in learning how to do Darkhallow, Cowl made a pretty good
attempt to pull it off. I guess it makes as much sense as Mavra is really the future Murphy. She made a deal just before the battle with the Titian and now she gets to come back from the future as the undead Mavra to get the book. Actually it makes more sense because future Murphy has incriminating photos of herself to blackmail her past self and Harry if she doesn't get the book. And she actually succeeds.
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