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Question of the day.
morriswalters:
@Mira
As of Dead Beat when the conversation with Malcolm takes places he still has the sigil doesn't he? His hand is burnt in Blood Rites.
--- Quote from: Dina on February 10, 2022, 08:41:49 PM ---I agree with those who said Malcolm was special because he was good, not because he had angelic blood or anything like that. He "simply" was good, like Father Forthill. And I think his good deeds (including Margaret's redemption) granted him a blessed afterlife, which includes some rewards, like having the chance of seeing Harry. By the way, I think Margaret herself got some kind of reward too. In one of the first books Harry feels a woman with him, who helped him when he was about to do something wrong, and that feeling increases when he touches his pendant. I think she was granted some chance to watch over him.
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That's certainly one way to read it. I'm just investigating other ideas. Harry is 6'9". That's at the high end of normal. Nephilim can be giants, so there is that to consider. The thought is that whatever Margaret intended to do that it wasn't just to create a Starborn. Unless Butcher has some magic up his sleeve a Starborn to this point is just somebody born at a certain time. She could have made one with some random specimen of males. She was also enthralled by Raith so something had to help her break away. So three things. Harry's size, she broke from Raith's control, and Harry gets to talk to the dead in the afterlife. To me this suggests something, although I'm not sure what. There is a lot going on in Dead Beat off the stage either before or just after Cowl attempts the Darkhallow. And IMO it's all related.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Harry may have Bigfoot blood rather than Angel blood, Dresden means People of the Forest after all, and he does get on well with River Shoulders, and given Eb is such a shrimp, he gets that from Malcolm’s side of the family several generations back, it expressed in his height when it mixed with Margaret’s wizard blood. Thomas is much shorter, suggesting the difference in their heights is due to their different fathers.
Dina:
Not necessarily. I don't remember the physical descriptions of Margaret and Malcolm. Perhaps they both were tall. Margaret's mother could have been tall, balancing Eb's short height (Argh, it always bothers me that, as far as we know, Harry never asked his grandfather anything about his grandmother. And yes, I've read the theories that it's Lea). The genetics of height are not so simple.
It is true that Thomas' height can be a hint that Harry inherited his tallness from Malcolm's size (Do you remember if Raith is tall?)
I always understood that every magical being in the Dresdenverse sees Harry as a starborn and a powerful wizard, but nothing else. I don't remember any of them hinting there is something especial in Harry's lineage (besides magic!)
morriswalters:
Both his father and mother were tall. Harry isn't out of human range, it's just that Butcher has been pointing at it more and more as time goes on. Shrug/
Conspiracy Theorist:
Not necessarily, if Bigfoot are Gigantopithecus then a relict population may have interbred with humanity as occurred with Neanderthal man. We know this is the case in the Dresdenverse because of Irwin, a noticeable percentage of humanity may therefore have Bigfoot genes, from generations back, but most are recessive. Magical ability be one set of genetic recessives from Bigfoot heritage, and height another.
Harry was originally a shrimp like Eb, he got a growth spurt about the time his magical ability started to manifest, perhaps the interaction of two sets of Bigfoot genes normally recessive, height from Malcolm and magic from Margaret.
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