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DF Books / Re: Black Staff
« on: April 25, 2024, 03:01:08 PM »... Is the black staff her walking stick?That is the general presumption hereabouts, yes.
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... Is the black staff her walking stick?That is the general presumption hereabouts, yes.
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page 454 Ghost StoryQuote"When you say what comes next, what do you mean exactly?"... However if Harry opts for what comes next he will be judged as we all will when we face Judgement.
"The part involving words like forever, eternity, and judgement."
"Oh," I said. "What Comes Next."
"Exactly."
Here is what Uriel says; same page 454 Ghost StoryQuote"So I can stay Between," I said quietly. "Or I can go get on that train,"... You will remember that Harry did choose what comes next, though since he really wasn't all dead, he never went on to what comes next.
"If you do," Uriel said, his eyes intent and serious, "then you accept the consequences for all that you have done while alive. When judged, what you have done will be taken into account. Your fate, ultimately, will be determined by your actions in life."
"You're saying that if I don't work for you, I'll just have to accept what comes?"
"I am saying that you cannot escape the consequences of your choices," he said.
I think Harry and Lara do marry ...do the wild thing honeymoon...and Lara conceives...just a afterthought twist... besides Maggie needs to be a big sister. 😳😜👍
I wasn't thinking of it as a teaching role but more of police function or even a position similar to Mab's but covering magic. Harry would get a limited Intellectus to warn him of major magical threats and events and have the newly formed Wardens as enforcers and the Paranet as the administrative and education arms of his new council/court.
Now that is a theory worth exploring.
What if at the end of the BAT, Harry becomes a new mantle like an Archmagus that governs or at least regulates magic in the Mortal Realms?
I think what's particularly interesting to consider is how long Harry will live, and how much will we see of his whole existence. Wizards live several hundred years, and give this story goes into the End of Days and is titled "The Dresden Files" one might assume we see his whole story. Jim has openly said in previous interviews that he isn't sure if Harry will survive the series.Dresden may indeed die at the end of the BAT; it seems entirely possible, maybe even probable. But I'll note that the series is also called "The Casefiles of Harry Dresden," so if he moves fully into the "Wizard of Chicago" gig, that'd be the end of the whole PI-oriented casefiles" schtick.
... Harry may well form another White Council after the inevitable collapse of the current one. But if the White Council collapses around the various apocalypses, is there even much point?My notion (I think it's one others share) is that Harry leverages the Paranet to build a broader coalition, one not exclusive to "White Council Caliber" talents. The foundation IMHO would be educational: "how not to fall afoul of Black Magic ways." This, above all -- the lack of WC guidance for the proto-wizards who fall (all too easily) into the lures of power -- is the thing where Harry feels most-keenly that the WC is just not doing a good-enough job. And the Paranet is well-suited (in terms of "feet on the ground" & connections into communities) to spot these cases and intervene before things get to the "call for the Grey Cloaks" stage.
... Not only that, I think it should be noted that Harry fundamentally rejects authority. While he has matured and become less abrasive, he ultimately still dislikes the idea of any governing body being in charge of him or anyone else. He's quite the libertarian. So, in the event the White Council does dissolve, I don't know that Harry would be the one to rebuild it. That's more of a Carlos type-of-thing ...As others have said, it's not really anti-authority. It's anti-bullying, and anti abuse-of-power.
Spoilery discussions, speculations, theorizing, etc. over Dresden's mother's life and death? Or who Dresden's maternal grandmother is? I've searched the DF Spoiler folders without luck. Thanks.Margaret LaFey, aka Maggie Sr?
... do we know when the white council was actually created? I can't remember any hard evidence other than when Edinburgh was won...
... given their rapid rise in rank and the fact that they seem to be trusted by the Establishment ...
... Who are Carlos and Chandler's mentors.
Is there any Woj about them?
It's possible on Merlin, but if you go by mythology, Merlin had long been asleep by that time.But Merlin was a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey sort of wizard.
I understand, but if you go back and read the different definitions of what an unreliable narrator is, Harry really doesn't fit, at least not consistently ...
... Too many times the term "unreliable narrator" is the fall back crutch when there is no evidence to prove the poster's point one way or another ...OK, this is an entirely different point! And it can be a crutch, yes; but equally, it can be simply point out that just because Harry says such-and-such is "true" (like his early reports of Mab being "the archetypal evil queen"), that too isn't really "evidence" that "such-and-such" is a "truth" of the Dresdenverse.