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DF Spoilers / Re: Summoning Question
« on: July 27, 2017, 10:12:51 AM »
Harry is going to be summoned to the Mirror Mirror universe by his evil doppelganger.
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That's an incredibly generalized idea. It aligns the info we already know quite well, don't get me wrong, excellent organization on it. I just can't see it being the definite answer to anything. With all your inside info your theorizing has suffered with this generalization effect in recent years. Even what you choose to respond to as far as others theories has changed... avoiding heavy or major topical theorizing. Not really fair that, as the main chooser of 'quality theories'.
That's probably a part of it, but it doesn't explain very well how that belief came into existence in the first place. It's not something Harry alone believes, it's shared by all wizards as far as we know.
As technology advances, will wizards become marginalized?
It sort of depends on where magic goes. Magic wasn’t always screwing up post WW2 tech. Before WW2 magic had other effects. It sorta changes slowly over time, and about every 3 centuries it rolls over into something else. At one time, instead of magic making machines flip out it made cream go bad. Before that magic made weird molls on your skin and fire would burn slightly different colors when you were around it. I do mention this in Ghost story (in passing). It’s not really aware or something like that, but it is something that changes along with the people who use it.
PR: So, do you, yourself, when you're writing them, do you draw lines in your head between, say, the sort of magic that Harry does and the sort of magic the people in Bayport are capable of? Or is it just an issue of skill and quantity?
JB: Well, it's all a little bit different, but everyone interacts with that kind of energy in a different way. For instance, wizards cause disruptions in technology and other things around them because, you know, people are never all one thing or all the other, people are a conflicted group of weirdos, and so when you have human beings that are using magic, that sort of self-inner conflict, that's one of the side-effects that comes out, that's why they wreck things that are around them. If you're a fairy who's using magic, you're doing the same thing as a human being, but you don't have that cluttered human nature. You can sit around as a fairy and play X-box all you want, you're never going to ruin it, and still be an awesome wizard, but not as Dresden.
Reality Pushes Back
In other words, if you use your will/mind as an applied force to change reality, reality will exert an equal and opposite force upon your will/mind that could be changing it as well.
My thoughts on this idea of reality pushing back come from multiple inspirations. One of the most poignant is how Harry insists to Lash that if she has been changing him, she pretty much has to have changed in return.xrt#X
Even more fundamental is the nature of the "murpheonic field." Or at least why it exists from my theorizing PoV. As a wizard develops his ability to shape reality according to his will, he is coming into direct conflict with the fact that humanity has been doing a pretty dang good job of defining just exactly how reality is supposed to work, and as a result is accomplishing all these really cool technological things. But because the wizard is a member of humanity, and is breaking these hard and fast "rules" that this cool technology is based off of, his magic interferes with it and makes it likely to fail.
You could even say that the wizard's mind has been warped by his continued use of magic to reshape reality, until the parts of reality that utilize highly specialized physical laws that his magic flies in the face of [I.E. technology] become highly unreliable to him.
From what I've seen, Yrrah has largely been replaced by -Harry, /Harry, !Harry, and ~Harry. I thought most had decided on -Harry, but then the others keep popping up.
I think Jim is being coy.
Though I love the idea of Jim going back and identifying potential easter eggs for down the road, rather than having intentionally put them in way back when.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE easter eggs.
Why? Do you think Mirror Harry went to work for Marcone? It's not like there will be a different Marcone. The split in timelines occurred near the end of book three. Marcone was already Marcone by then.
I'm not sure why everyone thinks everyone else will be so different. Different choices will have been made, but the basic characters will remain.
Actually the character that's really interesting is the Mirror Mirror universe Marcone, and we'll get to him in a few books.
Do we get an information dump at all?
I think there will be some information on Marcone that Harry isn't aware of based on what Jim has said. Harry is very guilty I think about the Red Court, and Susan. He might see things in this reality that make him realize that the alternative was much worse.
Actually the character that's really interesting is the Mirror Mirror universe Marcone, and we'll get to him in a few books.
When are we going to see Mavra again?
Um... 19? *pondering* Wait, I'm sorry we'll definitely see her in Mirror Mirror. She's a fast ally of Dresden's in Mirror Mirror.
I'M not the one that needs such fixing. It's the one who should be delivering the Mercedes, but is only delivering the Smartcar. I'd be thrilled to get both as you seem to think we will be getting, but if he's asking audiences for ideas about what to put in the book, it's nowhere close to being done. I'd imagine that this time next year, we will still be wondering where Peace Talks is.
Jim's mentioned at signings that he wants to write a short story about a trip to the zoo for the three of them. If I remember right, it's going to be the same story told from the three different perspectives, although Jim followed up that it's turning out to be much more difficult and frustrating than he anticipated.
I didn't know what Serack just told us, but in the main site here, there is a section to tell us the news about JB works. It has been recently update to tell that Jim is working in a story exclusively for Briefcases (just like he wrote Aftermath just for Side Jobs) and it said we will see Maggie and Mouse POV