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Battle ground questions
morriswalters:
If it was the right thing to kill him then he would be dead, the sword couldn't have stopped him. And that's the point. Butcher is trying to take you on a journey. He's trying to show you the Harry you never see. He just clutters the stage so bad you can't see it.
Mira:
--- Quote ---On Murphy's death. There is another purpose. First she wasn't murdered, which was what the putting Harry in Rudolph's shoes is telling you. The shooting was accidental. The other is to sell you on Harry being a ruthless killer when provoked, the Destroyer so to speak. This has been going on since Storm Front, with someone there to stop him before he goes over the edge.
--- End quote ---
No, I don't think the shooting qualifies as accidental. Why? Because before that moment at least once Rudolph was called out by his fellow officers for having his gun out and his finger on the trigger when there wasn't a reason for it. I'm no lawyer, but I think that qualifies for negligent homicide, or
manslaughter, no clue what the degree is. It happens in car accidents or when a pedestrian is hit and killed, the driver didn't set out to kill anyone, didn't mean to kill anyone,it wasn't deliberate, but neither was it an accident. But if it is proved that his or her reckless behavior caused or led to the death of another, while he or she usually isn't charged with murder, he or she can be charged with negligent homicide or manslaughter. If found guilty, the person can and often does go to prison for it. Rudolph can argue that he was insane in that moment, but he was negligent and reckless with his handling of his firearm and a death resulted from it.
As far as Harry goes, it wasn't just he lost it in the moment witnessing Murphy's death. He also knew that Rudolph was out for both Murphy and himself before this. So in the emotion of the moment he'd think it was murder and be hard pressed that it was an accident, which in truth, it wasn't.
morriswalters:
The sword settled the question. Whatever you want to call it, the sword said that killing him was off limits and put Harry into his shoes to show him why. His friends tell him and he hurts them. And he would have broken the First Law and become what the Council said he is, a monster. That's straight out of the text.
This is what I mean when I say that the text is cluttered. It isn't clear what the point of it is. He seems to be trying to keep the reader in the dark about what monster Harry is. What part of Harry did that moment represent? Was it the Destroyer or was it the Mantle?
Mira:
The Sword warned him, it didn't cut off his arm, it could have, but it didn't. It gave him a nice burn to bring him back to sanity, painful, but even it wasn't all that serious.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Importantly that burn overrode the Winter Mantle and continued to so. It didn’t cease to hurt afterwards.
The burning smell was that of Brimstone. That suggests Harry was being manipulated by Lucifer, NOT purely the Winter Mantle. I think at this point Harry has mastered the Mantle, even to the extent that the woman he loved killed by the man he loathed wouldn’t have been enough to tip him over. The Sword burnt out the satanic influence and Harry was able to regain equilibrium. That’s what Sanya and Butters were there for, that was their battle.
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