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g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 13, 2022, 08:00:03 PM --- ... I also think that Harry will find a way to the island that will get him there almost instantly. If not a way, I wouldn't be shocked if he learned to teleport in next book or two. Why else bring it up like Jim did in Battle Ground? Harry can improve his shield bracelet and the other gadgets he already has, but honestly I believe he has all that he needs ...
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I think Harry needs more "gadgets" for two reasons:
1) To cover his weaknesses. He's really really strong, in the areas here whe's strong. But he's only fair-to-middling in several other ways. Finesse and delicacy are areas where he still needs these "crutches." Also note that the Merlin -- in "combat gear" -- looks a helluva lot like a "Special Forces" guy, wearing a harness and a BUNCH of pockets, pouches, clips, etc holding a BUNCH of these gadgets.
1a) Harry's chiefest weakness is just his frail humanity. He still dies when someone shoots him, stabs him, etc. His shield-bracelet can stop a hail of bullets... if he has a moment to deploy it. Someone shooting him from under a veil would be an insta-kill. Likewise a savage brawler like a ghoul: if veiled, if Harry had no clue until the ghoul actually had his claws on Harry... that'd be it. Remember Eb's robes, in the battle at Chichen Itza? Eb didn't have to "do" anything, the bullets just thumped into the robe ... and dropped to the ground. Harry needs defenses that are always-on, that defend him even if the bad guys give him no warning.
2) Fan service. The readers just like Harry's toys. They like the scenes crafting them in the lab, where Harry and Bob snark at one another.
--- Quote from: Mira on June 13, 2022, 08:00:03 PM --- ... We've yet to see fully what the staff he made from wood on the island will do.
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The easy answer would be, "open a Gate from the staff to the tree." Boom, on the island.
The other likely method, IMHO, would be to find Runes linking the castle to the island.
I mean... the island's Runes were a level of complexity even Bob found daunting. And now Harry's living in a castle carved with such runes... and Bob is living *AS* the castle. Talk about a chekhovgun!!!
Fcrate:
This is something that's been bugging me throughout the series. Someone holds Harry at gunpoint, he raises his hands and hopes for a moment to raise his shield, then the conversation takes about 5 minutes, with Harry trying to defuse the situation because he's scared of the gun. I mean... Raise the freaking shield already. As far as we know, it only takes pouring his will into the bracelet, no gestures are even required.
I do understand that it's a little necessary for furthering the plot on many books, even if it doesn't make sense logically.
@ g33k: Harry has his duster, and there was a hint in Changes that he'll eventually be able to learn how to extend its protection to cover the head.
vincentric:
That should be the next upgrade he makes to his shield bracelet. Store enough energy and the spell sequence to activate it with a single word and no gathering of power and make it last the few seconds he needs to gather his will to sustain it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on June 14, 2022, 04:12:43 AM ---That should be the next upgrade he makes to his shield bracelet. Store enough energy and the spell sequence to activate it with a single word and no gathering of power and make it last the few seconds he needs to gather his will to sustain it.
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I'm fine with that, it is an upgrade to what already exists, like he realized after Mavra nearly burned his hand off that he had to also make the shield bracelet heat proof.
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: vincentric on June 14, 2022, 04:12:43 AM ---That should be the next upgrade he makes to his shield bracelet. Store enough energy and the spell sequence to activate it with a single word and no gathering of power and make it last the few seconds he needs to gather his will to sustain it.
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More likely that he gets finesse in how he directs his shield, making multiple shields at the same time, englobing an enemy with his shield so their fire returns at them and then contracting in to the size of a grapefruit (that would work lovely on Blamps, just like his gravitational spell but with less set up).
Now what is Harry going to do with Bob’s old skull? I would think that he would modify it to communicate remotely with Bob the Castle. If he can contact Bob with it, then Bob can patch him into the cell phone network, so that Harry would have a mobile bone phone. A telling bone so as to speak.
Mobile communications taken together with his mothers gem would allow Harry to be anywhere in North America in minutes, he could outflank the wardens. Easily.
The sonic screwdriver was abandoned in classic Doctor Who because it was too easy a solution for a story lasting 4-6 episodes. In Modern Who it’s perfect because it pushes the single episode stories on at a pace. That is the dilemma with most of Harry’s gadgets, they need to be appropriate to the speed of the narrative.
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