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I_hate_lotr:
She's the embodiment of knowledge but with as many people on the planet and the internet. How smart is she getting? Also does she know every spell the original Merlin knew?

Mira:

--- Quote from: I_hate_lotr on November 25, 2021, 04:03:53 AM ---She's the embodiment of knowledge but with as many people on the planet and the internet. How smart is she getting? Also does she know every spell the original Merlin knew?

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The Archive knows all of what has ever been written down, and now that she is growing up and
has control, she is very powerful indeed as we saw in Battle Ground.

vincentric:
Ivy is probably the greatest wizard on the planet and is only held back by her physical form's limitations. She knows all the spells and has an apparently greater efficiency than even the older White Council members when it comes to powering them. She should have access to enhancement type magic like the Fagin-like villain in Ghost Story if she doesn't just atomize her opponent.

Conspiracy Theorist:
It’s no just knowledge as an abstract, it’s the ability to comprehend and apply that knowledge.

For example she will have access to every bit of science and technical data the human race has ever developed, but does she have the native ability to apply that knowledge other than just write it out? Is she little more than a data storage device? Of can she develop new formulae and applications? She might have every bit of information about the internal combustion engine, but could she actually diagnose a problem with one and fix it?

By analogy Bob on a much smaller scale only realised some of his potential working with Butters, who Harry freely admits is a genius. Butters can’t store the information like Bob, but in some respects he can process information in ways Bob simply cannot unaided.

Mira:

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By analogy Bob on a much smaller scale only realised some of his potential working with Butters, who Harry freely admits is a genius. Butters can’t store the information like Bob, but in some respects he can process information in ways Bob simply cannot unaided.
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Not so much because Butters was a genius [agreed he is] but because Butters is an ordinary vanilla human, Bob had access to things and information, like computers etc that he couldn't with Harry because of wizard technology limitations

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