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DF Spoilers / Re: How Murphy could return to the Dresden Files
« on: March 02, 2024, 07:21:14 AM »
I do.
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But that's the point, her style etc, as a vanilla mortal, it wasn't just the Ghost Story hiccup, her arrogance, she thought she knew more than God. She went through big changes after she was booted off the police force, this fan didn't care for them much.. That's just my opinion, I found myself rolling my eyes every time she was on page towards the end..
But she won't be her anymore. She won't be the vanilla mortal that all her fans love. Death and time in Valhalla will change her, and perhaps not in the way you want. That is why there are rules like, paraphrasing, "she won't return till all that knew and loved her have died." Or something like that, but essentially that is a kindness to those who remain, love her memory as she was. I am sure for the next couple of books at least her fans will be looking for clues whether or not it was her, returned.
A good author always gives himself wiggle room because characters often have a way of taking on a life of their own. If an author is too wedded to his timeline he often ends up ruining the series.
Or he is merely giving himself an option..
Harry is not the casual sex type, he will only get romantically involved with someone he believes lives him. This was only reinforced by Luccio’ s love being a chemical Sham. Harry would need to love Lara and I don’t think that is possible. She might however certainly end up loving Harry.
I call it a cosmic rule because quoting Gard, "That is the limit not even the Allfather can cross." Not made up, but a real limit. If Odin cannot go past that limit, it sounds like a cosmic rule to me, set down by someone more powerful, the Creator perhaps?
You are comparing apples to oranges, yes, Harry might break all Seven Laws of Magic before he is done, but those are still laws set up by mortal wizards, even Merlin himself was a mortal. The limit that the Allfather cannot cross, isn't a limit set by mortals. At the end of the day, Murphy is still dead, she may be Einherjar with limited Intellectus, which hasn't been defined yet, but she is still dead.
Harry replies that she wasn't very forgettable, and Gard agrees.. However a cosmic rule is a cosmic rule, these things cannot be broken without grave consequences. I take Gard at her word,in these matters she is the expert.
Oh, that's another interesting possibility! Considering that Murph is the type of person who might want to subvert the rules as Jim himself said, and that we still don't know for a fact how Valkyries come to be. Heorot hints at them not being the "virgin daughters" (as some myths say, and not even all of them say the same thing), and in Aftermath, Gard suggests that Odin might be interested in offering Murph a position for which she even has the hair for, it wouldn't be outlandish to think that there is a chance that Valkyrie is a "position" one isn't born into but one can access to, so who knows, if it's a promotion from the Einherjar position, Murph would be the kind of person to aspire to it.