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Battle ground questions
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---Michael touched the blade of Fidelacchius again, more reverently. “Angels aren’t allowed to interfere with mortals or their free will,” he said. “If you’re right, Harry . . . this blade of light is a direct expression of the will of an angel. It can’t impinge upon the free will of a mortal. It can only fight evil beings who attempt the same.”
Butcher, Jim. Peace Talks (Dresden Files) (p. 178). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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It matters not one whit that it didn't cut off his arm. Nor did Lucifer have to be involved. Harry was going to commit murder. Whatever was driving him was EVIL. Had it not been so the sword couldn't have hurt him at all. Butchers Rule.
This side of Harry has been showing up since Storm Front when he didn't wear the Mantle.
--- Quote ---I clenched my fists in fury, and I could feel the air crackle with tension as I prepared to destroy the lake house, the Shadowman, and any of the pathetic underlings he had with him. With such power, I could cast my defiance at the Council itself, the gathering of white-bearded old fools without foresight, without imagination, without vision. The Council, and that pathetic watchdog, Morgan, had no idea of the true depths of my strength. The energy was all there, gleeful within my anger, ready to reach out and reduce to ashes all that I hated and feared.
The silver pentacle that had been my mother's burned cold on my chest, a sudden weight that made me gasp. I sagged forward a little, and lifted a hand. My fingers were so tightly crushed into fists that it hurt to try to open them. My hand shook, wavered, and began to fall again.
Then something strange happened. Another hand took mine. The hand was slim, the fingers long and delicate. Feminine. The hand gently covered mine, and lifted it, like a small child's, until I held my mother's pentacle in my grasp.
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Blood Rites
--- Quote ---I didn't care about that, either. The power felt too good—too strong. I wanted it. I wanted Raith to pay. I wanted him to suffer, screaming, and then die for what he had done to me. And I was strong enough to make it happen. I had the power and the resolve to bring such a tide of magic against him that he would be utterly destroyed. I would lay him low and make him howl for mercy before I tore him apart. He deserved nothing less.
And then fire blossomed in my hand again, so sudden and sharp that my back convulsed into an agonized arch, and I fell to the floor. I couldn't scream. The pain washed my fury away like dandelions before a flash flood. I looked around wildly and saw the old man's broad, calloused hand clamped down over my burned, lightly bandaged flesh with bruising strength. When he saw my eyes he released my hand, his expression sickened.
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And something very similar in White Knight and in Grave Peril when he burns Bianca's place down.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Brimstone is smelt only in two instances in the Dresdenverse
(1) when the devil and his minions are in play, and
(2) when Mouse has been fed onion rings.
Neither Mouse nor onion rings featured in that scene.
Fcrate:
Revenge is evil? What happened to "an eye for an eye"? I'd say that when Harry knelt and cried in shame is the part where he was out of character. The revenge part is on par.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Fcrate on April 24, 2022, 09:10:19 PM ---Revenge is evil? What happened to "an eye for an eye"? I'd say that when Harry knelt and cried in shame is the part where he was out of character. The revenge part is on par.
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Here's a logical syllogism.
If Butcher says the sword can only work against evil.
and it works against Harry
Then Harry was evil when the sword struck.
Seems clear enough. Take it up with the angel in the sword or Butcher, whichever you run across first.
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on April 24, 2022, 08:30:15 PM ---Brimstone is smelt only in two instances in the Dresdenverse
(1) when the devil and his minions are in play, and
(2) when Mouse has been fed onion rings.
Neither Mouse nor onion rings featured in that scene.
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Neither was Lucifer unless you are saying that Harry was possessed or has picked up a coin again.
Mr. Mouse:
The scene in Battleground when Butters and Sanya stopping Harry from killing Rudolph is a parallel of the scene in the short story "The Warrior" when Harry stops Michael from continuing to beat an unconscious Douglas (possibly killing him) after the priest had kidnapped Michael's daugher Alicia.
Would the Fidelacchius of Butters have burned Michael in that moment?
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