That being said, if you look at Harry's darkest moments (particularly the ones where he tried going down the left hand path - e.g. Storm Front when he's outside Sells house & Battle Ground when he tried to kill Rudolph) he looks pretty bad. Really bad. If you look at the language he uses he very much could be that being.
Yes, but in Storm Front if you are talking about when he was outside of the lake front house that Sells owned, I think he was thinking of what is possible verses him going down that road himself. Yes, he was tempted for the moment, remember he'd slipped on that banana before when he killed Justin, which makes slipping again easier. But then the spirit of his mother saved him, he felt her touch and he clasped the pentacle that came from her, it reminded him of the danger and what he should be about.
I don't count his feelings when he went after Rudolph when he killed Murphy as the same. I think the wild range of emotions he felt in that moment can be considered normal, ugly and violent to be sure, but a pure emotional reaction. Having said that, yes, I know he is a wizard, Winter Knight, which ramps up whatever reaction he was having, and that makes him very dangerous. Not unlike someone who is armed and witnessing a loved one being killed. I've read of at least two war time accounts where upon witnessing "buddies" being killed a soldier goes a bit "crazy" taking out numerous machine gun nests etc single handedly. However that doesn't make him a antichrist or the antichrist. Now I can be wrong, but from what little I've read, Harry doesn't fit that definition, at least not yet.
From what Basil said;
So this isn't just a pseudochristos, but THE Pseudochristos. The Man of Sin is a rebel and a destroyer, an agent of chaos whose hubris and arrogance sets himself above God. That's what Harry is telling us he could end up being. And, given the amount of personal power at his disposal .... not an unrealizable goal.
I can see Harry being sorely tempted because he does have what some would call "godlike powers."
Harry doesn't have that kind of hubris.. However I just came across something very interesting when I looked up the definition of "hubris."
(in Greek tragedy) excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
Is it a coincidence or is this what Jim is driving at by calling the Enemy, "Nemesis"? Or more to the point, Harry is the one to defeat Nemesis because he lacks that kind of pride and defiance?
I don't necessarily believe it was Malcolm's genetics that played a key role. Rather, it was his parenting. His teachings and modelling of behaviour.
That too, and I think Margaret saw that in Malcolm, it is almost a given that at some point they soul gazed, though I have no proof of that. She also saw his goodness, there is a reason why over the series Harry is repeatedly told he inherited his father's good heart. That good heart has prevented him from going too far down the wrong road when he has crossed the line.
think there is an alternate version that could be the Pseudochrist. Whether the Harry we are familiar with could be is another question.
The temptation is there, with the exception of the Gail, he now has in his possession all the Artifacts we associate with Jesus and the Crucifixion, redemption, salvation, however far one wants to go with it. So if Harry wanted to set himself of as a Christlike figure and demand a following based on that, he now has the tools. Actually in Battle Ground when ordinary people followed him under "his Banner," if Harry was going to go all pseudochrist on us, that would have been the time.
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