The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
So Fitz is...
Mira:
--- Quote ---Yeah, the biggest BAs we have seen circled are Mab, Titania, and the Erlking.
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Don't forget Chauncy, Harry used his circle for him, the others he managed to contain with a mere chalk circle if I remember correctly.. Also a chalk circle apparently protected Butters back in Dead Beat. I guess you could say back in Dead Beat Harry knew just enough to be dumb as my brother in law would say. His education was never complete, and he also admitted to being too lazy to really apply himself and study.
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: Mira on December 06, 2022, 10:50:59 PM ---Don't forget Chauncy, Harry used his circle for him, the others he managed to contain with a mere chalk circle if I remember correctly.. Also a chalk circle apparently protected Butters back in Dead Beat. I guess you could say back in Dead Beat Harry knew just enough to be dumb as my brother in law would say. His education was never complete, and he also admitted to being too lazy to really apply himself and study.
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I recall Chauncy, but I simply do not put him in a class with Mab or Titania or the Erlking. I think those three would swat Chauncy like a bug. Harry used his circle on Chauncy because he HAD it. If I am a farmer, and I come home from hunting moose, and I see a raccoon trying to get in my chicken house, do I run inside to my gun safe to get a light rifle? No, I use the big rifle I brought to hunt moose - it's handier. Even though it is WAY overkill.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on December 07, 2022, 06:48:05 AM ---I recall Chauncy, but I simply do not put him in a class with Mab or Titania or the Erlking. I think those three would swat Chauncy like a bug. Harry used his circle on Chauncy because he HAD it. If I am a farmer, and I come home from hunting moose, and I see a raccoon trying to get in my chicken house, do I run inside to my gun safe to get a light rifle? No, I use the big rifle I brought to hunt moose - it's handier. Even though it is WAY overkill.
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But that is my point, Harry used a 22 on both Mab and the Erlking, while he used his 270 on Chauncy. And as an aside, I grew up on a chicken farm and a racoon did get in to go after the
chickens in the middle of the night, I was small but I still remember the pitiful cries of the chickens. My father had plenty of time to grab, I believe he used a shot gun, and he successfully killed it.
heidi_storage:
--- Quote from: Mira on December 06, 2022, 10:50:59 PM ---[Harry] also admitted to being too lazy to really apply himself and study.
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I agree with most of your comment, but is he really lazy about studying? We see him researching stuff a lot--exploding heart spell in Storm Front, vampire cures after Grave Peril, etc. In Skin Game, while fighting Hannah Ascher he rhapsodizes about loving the Art and spending time on it, as opposed to just liking the power of it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: heidi_storage on December 08, 2022, 12:47:58 AM ---I agree with most of your comment, but is he really lazy about studying? We see him researching stuff a lot--exploding heart spell in Storm Front, vampire cures after Grave Peril, etc. In Skin Game, while fighting Hannah Ascher he rhapsodizes about loving the Art and spending time on it, as opposed to just liking the power of it.
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I agree with that also, but by his own words, Harry says he was lazy about studying. Not until Molly becomes his apprentice that Harry starts to really apply himself. In Storm Front a lot of his knowledge comes mostly from Bob. Harry may of been mostly referring to his younger self, but that as you know is a critical foundation. Like a lot of very bright kids, they don't have to work hard to get by in their studies, so he didn't. Not that it was all Harry's fault, what Justin taught him he learned well, but Justin's education of Harry was limited to what Justin eventually wanted to turn Harry into, an "enforcer." However things like Latin, important for a wizard of the White Court, right? Harry was capable of learning it, but more often than not he cut class. Hell, he had no clue that the White Court even existed, so why learn a so called dead language? When he lived with Eb, it was mostly ethics that he learned and hard physical farm labor. Why? Maybe partly out of Eb's own guilt about driving his mother away by pushing her, but also in my opinion to keep Harry safe. Because young Harry had that much potential talent, and the Council was already terrified of him in many ways. So Eb kept many doors to knowledge closed to Harry, as did the Council apparently. Remember the comment about parts of the library at headquarters being forbidden to him?
Since Molly, Harry has applied himself, take veils, when we first meet him they are rudimentary at best, he complains he has no talent for them. That might be true, but when he starts training Molly who has a natural talent for them, he applies himself and by Battle Front he can pull off a decent one. Same goes for the Latin, he isn't comfortable with speaking it, but it is passable now.
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