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Is Harry OP? [Battle Ground Spoilers]
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Greywolf on October 04, 2020, 05:54:43 AM ---If I recall correctly he was mostly halo-ing Murph, right? And she was in full-on-angel-possession-mode? I think it’s likely that if anyone saw it they’d assume it was angelic presence, and I don’t think anyone tipped wise to Bob.
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And if any of the Grey Council had engaged Bob during the fighting with Kemmler, they'd be familiar with the blue Evil Bob, doing a whole lot more actively destructive stuff. Drastically changing tactics with the removed memories and glowing a different colour is a decent casual disguise ... even if most of them recognized Harry's squad had a spirit being helping them, the don't have reason to connect that it's /that/ spirit being.
Now, on the general topic of things that make Harry scary, it's yet to pan out, but his "they're looking now; let them find something positive" strategy seems to be about laying groundwork toward eventual contact with the vanilla authorities. I don't doubt the Librarians are going to be somewhere between inconvenient and antagonistic for a while, because, hey, it's Jim writing this. But longer term, when they're ready to reach out to someone to make contact with, the monster-slayer who advertised in the Yellow Pages is probably going to look better than supernatural nations they're starting to see the outlines of but are trying to hide. In practical terms, good relations with the mundane authorities would actually be more useful in a lot of ways than something like the ability to let horrors out of Demonreach.
If you think the Council is pissed and frightened now, just imagine the apoplexy if, around about book 19 or 20, Harry is leveling up from consultant to SI to consultant to Interpol and the UN security council. You want to kill the guy who's talking to the mortals about how to protect themselves from another supernatural attack? Enjoy your new #1 spot on the list of things they think they have to protect themselves from.
At this point I really want to see Ramirez drop by to spot-check Harry's conduct, and barge in on Harry hosting some feds he's on good terms with for a chat. Explaining that one of the secretive nations has someone under a suspended death sentence for going too far in defending Chicago would be a /great/ look for the Council in front of mortal authorities.
Yuillegan:
^^ Agreed. I do expect the Librarians to be a challenging foe (based on Lara's description) but like a lot of things that have been powerful initially, to get nerfed to be in-line with the rest. I suspect they already have a file on the openly operating Wizard. Hopefully, that ends up in Harry's favor.
I am with you in that it would be great to see Dresden become a consultant to the UN or something on the supernatural (assuming one doesn't exist already...) and making himself far more untouchable than he was as a member of the White Council. It's about time those smug bastards got a reality check.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on October 05, 2020, 02:10:26 AM ---In practical terms, good relations with the mundane authorities would actually be more useful in a lot of ways than something like the ability to let horrors out of Demonreach.
If you think the Council is pissed and frightened now, just imagine the apoplexy if, around about book 19 or 20, Harry is leveling up from consultant to SI to consultant to Interpol and the UN security council. You want to kill the guy who's talking to the mortals about how to protect themselves from another supernatural attack? Enjoy your new #1 spot on the list of things they think they have to protect themselves from.
At this point I really want to see Ramirez drop by to spot-check Harry's conduct, and barge in on Harry hosting some feds he's on good terms with for a chat. Explaining that one of the secretive nations has someone under a suspended death sentence for going too far in defending Chicago would be a /great/ look for the Council in front of mortal authorities.
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All pretty solid. My only counter argument is "would Jim make it that easy on Harry?"
forumghost:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on October 05, 2020, 02:10:26 AM ---At this point I really want to see Ramirez drop by to spot-check Harry's conduct, and barge in on Harry hosting some feds he's on good terms with for a chat. Explaining that one of the secretive nations has someone under a suspended death sentence for going too far in defending Chicago would be a /great/ look for the Council in front of mortal authorities.
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I feel like this would go against Harry's goals of not starting a war between the Muggles and the Magical World.
Mira:
Listen to Mab, the White Council is going to realize that they need that wolf and take him back. At the moment they see him as a monster. But I bet inside of a book or two, Harry is going to confront them about something as Rashid predicted, and they will realize, he is their monster.
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