Twelve Months Discussion Thread

[Mira]

I also thought Carlos was a bit too far back to normal given how hostile things left off between him and Harry at the end of the last book.

  I totally agree with this, he did the same thing with Thomas and Harry's relationship after Turn Coat.  At the end of Turn Coat Harry was very unsettled with what Thomas was saying at the end of Turn Coat and there appeared to be a split between them, then in the next book it was like it never happened. 

I also noticed that Harry's attitude towards Wardens beheading suspected warlocks and those who do Black Magic out of ignorance maybe had come to resemble the Merlin.  In Proven Guilty Harry was for at the very least due process for the accused before his or her head was lopped off, why the Merlin argued that 1] too many of them and too few wizards willing to take on the Doom to try and help these kids. 2] That too many were too far gone and there was no reforming them so they had to lose their heads, not doing that was too costly.  In Twelve Months, Harry has seemingly come around to that view.

[Bad Alias]

At the end of Turn Coat Harry was very unsettled with what Thomas was saying at the end of Turn Coat and there appeared to be a split between them, then in the next book it was like it never happened. 

I always thought Harry and Thomas's relationship was strained until Cold Days. In Changes Thomas ignored Harry and acted like he didn't care about Maggie being sacrificed. In, Ghost Story we see Thomas is very much not being a monster. In Cold Days, Thomas calls Harry out on his suicide, and what that says about what Harry must think of Thomas.

[Mira]

  Is it just me, but did anyone else get hungry for pot pie after reading this book?

[Snark Knight]

I don't know what they did. As you said, perhaps magically undetectable microphones. We will see.

Oh yeah, there's no way the spooky feds wouldn't take advantage of that opportunity.  Somehow.

Hopefully someone kept Bob's skull and anything else too sensitive out of their sight, at least.

[Mira]

Oh yeah, there's no way the spooky feds wouldn't take advantage of that opportunity.  Somehow.

Hopefully someone kept Bob's skull and anything else too sensitive out of their sight, at least.

 Bob now seems to live in the castle walls themselves, is his skull even to be found these days?

[Dina]

Oh yeah, there's no way the spooky feds wouldn't take advantage of that opportunity.  Somehow.

Hopefully someone kept Bob's skull and anything else too sensitive out of their sight, at least.

I think Harry is oblivious but not that oblivious. I am sure his most sensitive things are out of sight.

[Bad Alias]

Bob now seems to live in the castle walls themselves, is his skull even to be found these days?

It's in the lab. Bob went into it at least once.

[Mira]

It's in the lab. Bob went into it at least once.

Then there is the lab!  Actually Bob's scull can be explained away in terms of archology since it is over a thousand years old.  Depending of course how closely the inspectors want to question why Harry has it.  However we know from before that Harry keeps some very interesting things in his lab.  Though I cannot remember the book, he says when he can afford it he even has some radioactive material for his experiments. That might be a bit harder to explain, however I wouldn't be shocked it Harry managed to shield the lab from the inspectors.  It's still a basement of a basement, accessible only through a trap door in the floor.

[Bad Alias]

Harry had depleted uranium, which is "weakly radioactive" and illegal to own without a license. I'm not sure what weakly radioactive means. I know granite is also radioactive, but we use it for countertops.

Generally speaking, it's legal to own human bones in America.

I doubt Harry has collected a lot of illegal stuff yet.

[Mira]

Generally speaking, it's legal to own human bones in America.

It is, you can buy them from "The Bone Room."  I have bought them for training cadaver dogs.  They are expensive, usually or did when I bought them years ago come from places like China.  Old cemeteries are dug up to make room for something else and the bones are sold.  However in recent years I believe that China stopped selling the old bones, or I have heard that.

I am not sure what weakly radioactive means either, lots of people have granite counter tops, but not many have "depleted" uranium.

[Bad Alias]

I am not sure what weakly radioactive means either, lots of people have granite counter tops, but not many have "depleted" uranium.

Depleted uranium is toxic in addition to weakly radioactive. I doubt most people have any need to own it.

[Dina]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#:~:text=Depleted%20uranium%20(DU)%2C%20also%20referred,isotope%20235U%20than%20natural%20uranium.

That is a very long article, it mentions the toxicity, weak radiation and even the non-military uses.

[Bad Alias]

That's where I got my specifics from. I remembered that my brother commented that depleted uranium wasn't radioactive when he read that part of Grave Peril. I was trying to figure out how radioactive it was compared to granite, but didn't find anything.