The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
"Stars and Stones..."
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: JumpyDragon on September 20, 2020, 03:04:55 AM ---This made me almost spew my food. But let's be honest, Harry would have high stats in Intelligence and Charisma (don't get me wrong, he uses wit a lot and is able to get people to follow him into the crazy, scary, frightening situations) but his stats in WISDOM are extremely low. Hence the not warding on the floors and his constant putting of foot in his mouth. He's very smart and can think quickly, but doesn't do so well with common sense and perception.
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Yes but his corresponding stats in WISEASS are immeasurably high. Pity it does him absolutely no good at all.
And yes please, let’s have Uriel have to pick up the Kringle Mantle when Odin dies at Ragnarok /BAT with Sasha dressed as an especially heavily armed elf. The kids would wet themselves if they thought they had made the naughty list.
Imagine Sasha growling out “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town “ to a group of 5 year olds “You’d better watch out, you’d better not hide...” the parents would wet themselves, let alone the kids.
Mira:
--- Quote from: JumpyDragon on September 20, 2020, 03:04:55 AM ---This made me almost spew my food. But let's be honest, Harry would have high stats in Intelligence and Charisma (don't get me wrong, he uses wit a lot and is able to get people to follow him into the crazy, scary, frightening situations) but his stats in WISDOM are extremely low. Hence the not warding on the floors and his constant putting of foot in his mouth. He's very smart and can think quickly, but doesn't do so well with common sense and perception.
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Of course not, in wizard years, Harry is still young.. He has seen a lot, but not like his peers that have a couple of hundred years under their belts. He has done and does pretty well, considering, but he is going to make mistakes, that is how the young learn. Harry also never had the benefit of proper training in ALL aspects of being a wizard. Justin did teach him the basics and did that very well, but Justin also had a goal in mind for his young apprentice, so so much for ethics and theory and other things that go into a well rounded wizard. Eb, when he got a hold of Harry was worried about having a powerful young time bomb on his hands.. He also had orders to kill his grandson if need be. Eb also knew the mistakes he made with his daughter, so he eased off. It isn't like he let Harry play, plenty of chores on that old farm in the Ozarks, however aside from a heavy dose of ethics and what magic should be, he didn't teach him a whole lot. That comes through while they are battling the Cornerbreasts in Peace Talks.. So the practical side of things Harry has had to teach himself the last twenty years... That is barely a blink of an eye in the life of a wizard.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Harry is a bit of an idiot savant, with emphasis on the idiot.
He is in his own words “Kinda smart” but it is case solving, and most of that is his subconscious, which is waaay smarter than conscious Harry. This is largely improvising, with the occasional forethought thrown in However in more recent books he is thinking more ahead on everything, he may be playing more dumb now than being dumb, as with Eb, where he outmaneuvred a wizard with three centuries on him.
He is also kinda dumb though, he still, despite knowing better, shares the wisdom of his ass when he shouldn’t, and misses things like the tension between Molly and Lara and or what is wrong with Carlos which he really shouldn’t and doesn’t ask about. He annoys people sometimes just for the sheer joy of annoying them
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 20, 2020, 12:58:36 PM ---Harry is a bit of an idiot savant, with emphasis on the idiot.
He is in his own words “Kinda smart” but it is case solving, and most of that is his subconscious, which is waaay smarter than conscious Harry. This is largely improvising, with the occasional forethought thrown in However in more recent books he is thinking more ahead on everything, he may be playing more dumb now than being dumb, as with Eb, where he outmaneuvred a wizard with three centuries on him.
He is also kinda dumb though, he still, despite knowing better, shares the wisdom of his ass when he shouldn’t, and misses things like the tension between Molly and Lara and or what is wrong with Carlos which he really shouldn’t and doesn’t ask about. He annoys people sometimes just for the sheer joy of annoying them
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Since he wrote about it, Harry didn't miss the tension, what he missed was the significance.. However I don't think that has come out yet.
The annoying people for the sheer joy is at once immaturity and being a smart ass... However being a smart ass has also been a clever tactic when going up against someone stronger and smarter than he is.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Yes but he antagonises people he doesn’t need to antagonise, merely because sometimes they are in authority. Jokes on Harry, by the end of BG he is going to be THE authority, and boy is that going to bite him in the ass. If Jim doesn’t write a character who treats Harry like he treats people in authority, with the same type of snart assery, then Jim isn’t allowing Harry to develope.
About time Harry had a new apprentice.
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