The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Harry really is an idiot [BG Spoilers]
huangjimmy108:
--- Quote from: vincentric on October 04, 2020, 03:50:16 PM ---Harry could have potentially ended the threat of Nemesis even in his exhausted state. All he had to do is wait below deck until they were close enough to dock and have Alfred take custody of her. He might not have been able to fight but Justine would have been stuck until he had time to recover and complete the binding.
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Harry can't hold on much longer. He is almost out. If Harry still has some energy lef doing as you suggest may be a good idea, but with his condition at the time it will be too risky.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Nemesis would have revealed themselves in the hope Harry would try a binding he was too exhausted to succeed at. If he lost, Nemesis would have control of Harry and Demonreach. Harry’s normal resistance to Outsiders would otherwise normally prevent this.
vincentric:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on October 05, 2020, 04:02:49 AM ---There's also the question of if Harry could handle the binding in his exhausted state.
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He could have taken one or two steps onto the island with her and buried her neck deep in the ground just by thinking about it. The binding could have waited while he took a nap and Alfred watched over her.
StrayDog:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 04, 2020, 06:15:00 PM ---Not a spoiler, even Harry openly admits he is an idiot.
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JB in general has been doing a great job of building a Hero's Journey with Harry but we've had 17 books now of "Whoa is me" and "I can't do it" and "How do I weasel out of ..." etc. So much so that I found myself rolling my eyes and forwarding past the exact same words printed several times the exact same way in each book. This took me out of Dresdenverse repeatedly and, as the reader, even thanking Mab for saying what I had been saying all book. It would be great if JB stopped using these tired tropes. BG is, IMO, the worse book of the series as well as, since I have the audiobooks, James Marsters' worse performance of the whole series.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on October 05, 2020, 11:21:50 PM ---He could have taken one or two steps onto the island with her and buried her neck deep in the ground just by thinking about it. The binding could have waited while he took a nap and Alfred watched over her.
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Which demonstrates just how exhausted Harry was, his brain didn't go there. I also think he was very unsure about whether or not Alfred could handle an Outsider. Most likely he can, but it is too late to ask if the locks work once the horse has already left the barn.
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