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The one thing in battleground the bugged me: [BG Spoilers]

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Dina:
Thanks Griff. We'll do.
My belief about Fatima is "it could have happened. Many witnesses, several times. And I am sure Sor Lucia believed it" but my personal opinion is irrelevant. I understand a lot of people will have their doubts and utterly disbelieve it, and that was my point. Because basically I am saying that "yes, many people will understand the supernatural exists" but many others won't.
But what affected me was this sentence: "I could go on but the entire event is entirely nonsense that only a fool could believe. Just like all religious experiences". Because I do believe in other religious experiences (that I won't mention here).

So, on topic, do you really think all the versions about what happened in Chicago are coherent? That they will all tell the same thing? Remember that no many people were first hand witness. Most humans were hidden, running, trying not to be seen. The closer they were to the real thing, the more probable is that they were hurt. So more reason not to be trusty storytellers. And those who really watched it...what is your idea about the rate Rudolphs/Bradleys? I think most people would react in panic and denial. There was a big Jotun corpse there and Rudolph complained because Murph had killed it! And yes, I think the denial is stronger in the Dresdenverse than in our world (perhaps for influence of supernatural forces).

That, 'nuff said. I'll try to stay shut this time.

Avernite:
One thing I came up with...

What if it's all the Archive?

We know the Archive has worldwide reach, and its/her goal is to make mortals forget supernatural nasties. What better way than blanketly suppressing the knowledge of supernatural events? Sure, you can't make people disbelieve Harry Dresden exists, but if they disbelieve he's a wizard it makes it much easier to hide the very existence of faeries, jotuns, and icky fish-people. Not to mention the big nasties.

Therefore we don't need it to truly make sense, anymore than it had to make sense that Harry's volunteers stood and fought with a casualty rate that would break the most hardened of elite troops - supernatural power is wielded to make it so.

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