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Dabble Interview 23 August 2023
vincentric:
--- Quote from: SerScot on November 05, 2023, 10:14:45 PM ---Is “the Law” available in anthology yet?
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No, but it's $4.99 US on Kindle.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 23, 2023, 10:15:30 PM ---WoJ says IIRC that Ebenezer's wife -- Margeret LeFay's mother -- was NOT a magical talent... whither Salic Law, hmmm?
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his precise answer was,"well... She was mortal. So there's that."
Considering Thomas is "mortal" to mab, we really can't give that any context. That she was not a practitioner is inferred from this, but without any context to what counts as mortal.
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 23, 2023, 10:15:30 PM ---Wizardly "Salic Law" suggests that the mother's line matters for magical talent, not the fathers.
OTOH, that's from unreliable-narrator Harry.
WoJ says IIRC that Ebenezer's wife -- Margeret LeFay's mother -- was NOT a magical talent... whither Salic Law, hmmm?
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However as genetic lines go, that doesn't mean that Harry's great grandmother didn't have talent, passed the gene on to Harry's grandmother, who while having no talent herself passed the gene on along with Eb to their daughter, Margaret.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 06, 2023, 07:12:49 PM ---However as genetic lines go, that doesn't mean that Harry's great grandmother didn't have talent, passed the gene on to Harry's grandmother, who while having no talent herself passed the gene on along with Eb to their daughter, Margaret.
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I just think that we -- the fans -- don't really have a solid basis for theorizing about genetic lineages of wizards.
Between Harry being an "unreliable narrator" (which sometimes may include simply being mistaken or ignorant about his info) and Jim Butcher seemingly-intentionally avoiding giving definitive answers, I think "what we can be sure of" in this regard is a vanishingly-small basis for drawing any conclusions, inferences, extrapolations, etc...
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on November 07, 2023, 12:42:32 AM ---I just think that we -- the fans -- don't really have a solid basis for theorizing about genetic lineages of wizards.
Between Harry being an "unreliable narrator" (which sometimes may include simply being mistaken or ignorant about his info) and Jim Butcher seemingly-intentionally avoiding giving definitive answers, I think "what we can be sure of" in this regard is a vanishingly-small basis for drawing any conclusions, inferences, extrapolations, etc...
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Oh I don't disagree with that, often repeated is it is passed though the mother's side of the family, generally. All I pointed out is it is possible for the gene to be carried by the mother, and she, herself, not have talent. There are lots of examples of that in the real world. So just because Harry's grandmother supposedly had no talent herself, that doesn't mean she didn't carry the gene. We can quickly get into the weeds when we start talking dominant/recessive genes, sex linked genes, etc.. Listens To Wind has enough science as well as magical background to explain it, though he hasn't. Harry maybe an unreliable narrator, but in the case of who has and passes the gene on for magical talent, it is a complicated subject. As you say, we just don't know enough to say that Harry is right, wrong, or both.
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