The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Battle Ground foreshadowing
Conspiracy Theorist:
His utility was as a Pratchett type wizard, (a homage I believe to the late Sir Terry) exactly the butt of Drakul’s jibe, and which played off beautifully in Peace Talks when Lara manipulates him in to bringing Thomas to the Castle.
Butcher had a lot of time for Pratchett as did Harry, the adage “make a man a fire and he is warm for a day, set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of life.” Could have been made for Harry. There are a large number of Fomor not in a position to argue with it.
Sometimes a character is just that, the set up of a joke.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 22, 2022, 10:20:24 AM --- ... Though from Uriel's reaction to his condition I wouldn't bet against it being broken either ...
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I'm pretty sure Uriel explicitly said it was broken; that healing was possible (because wizards who live can apparently heal almost anything) but would not be quick.
I don't think Uriel would explicitly lie to Harry, not even to advance the presumptive Uriel/Mab plan to load up Harry with ALL DA K3WL 9OWERZ.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I'm pretty sure Uriel explicitly said it was broken; that healing was possible (because wizards who live can apparently heal almost anything) but would not be quick.
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I don't have the book in front of me, but what I remember Uriel saying is something like,"I see your problem." So he did imply heavily that it was, but never said it was. But we focus too much on the broken spine bit, people do break their backs and recover and walk. Now a severed spinal cord is another matter all together, and a wizard may recover from that in forty years or so.. Though today's medicine improves daily, most vanilla humans never do. Uriel also said though he could fix it, he wouldn't fix it because of the rules he was working under.
Conspiracy Theorist:
He knew Harry was working to a deadline, And there was no way without supernatural intervention for him to meet it, and that he could not provide that intervention. He knew he was pushing Harry towards Mab.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on May 02, 2022, 06:30:13 PM ---He knew Harry was working to a deadline, And there was no way without supernatural intervention for him to meet it, and that he could not provide that intervention. He knew he was pushing Harry towards Mab.
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I don't know if he was pushing Harry towards Mab.. Harry still had free will and choices, his problem was his choices were , bad, worse, and worst. Harry was trying to use that as a threat, but even if he chose worst, there wouldn't have been anything Uriel could have done about it because it was still Harry's free will to choose. All he could offer was the confirmation that Maggie was his daughter, and if he chose out of love he wouldn't stray so far off the path, that he couldn't get back. Harry chose bad, or Mab over his other choices. However I also think that Uriel knew what Harry would choose, and what he was planning as he knew who had whispered in his ear when he chose. I also think that Uriel may have made the wind blow just enough so that though the bullet did hit Harry in the heart, it wouldn't result in instant death allowing Mab to keep him alive after he hit the water.
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