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   With all due respect, do not be lazy about your quotes..  Give page numbers as well as book titles, context is very important...  Not saying you are doing this, but quotes without context or edited can be easily twisted one way or another... At least by giving the page number, oh and saying it is hard back or paperback as well because the pages don't always line up, gives the rest of us to go back and read for ourselves...  It enhances the debate and give both sides of it better grounds to support or refute..

Major downside of ebooks/audiobooks. Much more difficult to direct people to the right spot for quotes.

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What Harry could have done with Susan--which after learning better, he does with Murphy--is recognize that she wasn't to going to listen to advice that amounted to leave the supernatural alone because it's too dangerous. Since she was never going to be sensible, he probably should have clued her enough that she understood that she needed to drastically change how she approached the  supernatural.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Black Magic - Intent, Fact & Knowledge
« on: November 07, 2017, 08:38:26 PM »
The council say that killing non humankind does not violate the 7 laws, whether or not it cause taint however is another matter entirely.
 
Harry use forzare to kill the fetch in book 8, and he get lost in battle lust. The fetch is non human, but it is shown to us in book 9 that Harry's control of his temper is growing steadily worse by the day.
 
It is entirely possible that unjustly killing a supernatural being, say killing a bigfoot like river shoulders, will cause some kind of taint even though the council won't acknowledge the act as a law violation. It seldom happens though. When it comes to supernaturals and wizards. The ones who has good intentions won't come, and those who come don't have good intentions. The way things are going, it is well nai impossible to unjustly kill a supernatural.

A wizard has to be worried about more than just magical corruption. Morgan was a stonecold bastard and he followed the laws perfectly. Getting in the habit of killing things for bad reasons is going to do bad things to Harry even if he never gets near black magic. It's one of the reasons he'd rather have died than be the Winter Knight.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Changes battle, we only saw the surface?
« on: November 07, 2017, 08:21:10 PM »
Given how quick the Formor were off the mark, I think they had pre-cogs saying something big was going to happen. By the time the book starts, I think the possible futures had narrowed down to the end of either the Red Court or the White Council. That implies either the bloodline curse was going to do more than just take out a pair of Wizards or that the White Council's attempt to stop the curse could have ended disastrously. Losing the Grey Council and the Fellowship could have been enough to make the end of the war a foregone conclusion. We saw how the end of the RC came about, though the Grey Council's original plan might have been nasty enough to take out enough of the Court to knock the reds down to Black Court levels of power.

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