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Harry Dresden's New Apprentice!!?!
Mira:
Apprentice by definition;
--- Quote ---a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
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That wasn't Kim's relationship with Harry, she wasn't working for or with him, and it appears she was paying him very low wages [a steak because he was hungry] for knowledge so she could pass herself off as something she wasn't. Because of his over active sense of taking responsiblity, Harry may have called her a sometime apprentice, but she wasn't. There was no agreement between them, she did no work that we know of for him.
--- Quote ---The odds are very good that -- though Dresden was undoubtedly overqualified to teach her -- he was still the only teacher who was qualified and willing.
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No, he was the only one around that had the knowledge she wanted. Harry started to answer her questions in payment for the steak, but when he realized what she was asking about and where it could lead, he was no longer willing to answer.
--- Quote ---Someone who pilots a fighter-jet can train a student to fly a commercial airliner (for many years, retired fighter pilots were the single largest source of commercial pilots for US airlines) -- they don't have to train them to be a fighter-jock.
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You know it is a lot more complicated than that. Also you didn't define "student," in your analogy, for some trades to become a student requires prerequisites.
--- Quote ---A "practitioner" would be the term, I believe. He was teaching her to be a better (safer, more in-control) practitioner. She clearly had enough power to get herself in trouble; I really can't see Harry refusing to train someone like that (particularly an attractive young woman).
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Which doesn't make her his apprentice. He may have taught her some things, but he didn't train her, but she never was really a student of magic. I can take a cooking class which would improve my cooking skills, but that doesn't make me a chef.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 30, 2025, 12:24:32 PM ---Apprentice by definition;
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I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Harry said she was ("was" in the past tense, had been) his apprentice.
You don't believe that, thinking it a "mere figure of speech."
I don't see either of us convincing the other one.
Griffyn612:
I'm guessing Bonnie, based on the eager bit. She seems like the most eager existing character, and I feel like taking on a new apprentice he's not related to our responsible for would not be the best decision, and the therapy book is supposed to be about recovering, not making more issues, right?
g33k:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on September 30, 2025, 05:32:20 PM ---... and the therapy book is supposed to be about recovering, not making more issues, right?
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Well, that would be the normal therapeutic presumption, yes.
OTOH, this is Harry Dresden we're talking about; remind me again: when has Harry done the sensible and appropriate thing, particularly in regards self-care?
... and, of course, this is Jim Butcher we're talking about: the man has based his entire career on tormenting Harry and making his life harder & more complicated.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on September 30, 2025, 05:32:20 PM ---I'm guessing Bonnie, based on the eager bit. She seems like the most eager existing character, and I feel like taking on a new apprentice he's not related to our responsible for would not be the best decision, and the therapy book is supposed to be about recovering, not making more issues, right?
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I agree with you, she has all the knowledge of Lasciel, plus the mojo to be a wizard. However she is young and untrained, she could end up being Harry's answer to Namshiel.
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