The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
"Stars and Stones..."
Mira:
--- Quote from: JumpyDragon on September 18, 2020, 08:51:20 PM ---Well...he lived in a basement for 15+ years. Probably never considered attacks from below.
Jim has also stated that Harry is the incompetent buffoon type of wizard. In WK while fighting Malvora in the deeps, he never considered 3D fighting, only 2D.
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Living in the basement has nothing to do with it, he knew about the abilty to "earthwalk." Harry may have started out as incompetent, but he no longer is. It was never a question of competence, more of laziness, he never studied any harder than he needed to to get by. Like a lot of bright students, he got along because of his raw talent. It was only when he was saddled with the responsibility for Molly that he applied himself. Where pre-White Night he'd be hard pressed to pull off a half assed veil, he can do a very competent job of one now.
JumpyDragon:
True true. And with Mabs's training, Harry should have known better.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 18, 2020, 08:38:22 PM ---Another thing that bothered me on the reread, Harry put heavy wards around the apartment, but knowing the svartalves can "earthwalk" or move through the earth like water, why didn't he ward the floor as well?
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Good catch.
Warding the door, but not the floor:
1) It's a *much* smaller surface area.
2) It suggests he wasn't thinking of the svartalves as a threat, just external invaders.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Presumably because he thought the Swartalves guarded that approach
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 18, 2020, 10:58:18 PM ---Presumably because he thought the Swartalves guarded that approach
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More to the point, I don't think he saw them as a threat. But then again he states that though he doesn't like to do it, he did know how to earthwalk, or more precisely it is something if any decent wizard is capable of learning. So an unwarded floor left him and his little family vulnerable, except he has Sir Mouse, who is always on the job.
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