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The Dresden Files => DF Spoilers => Topic started by: SerScot on April 10, 2025, 12:35:32 AM
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Seriously.
Merlin is said to remember the future the way other man remember the past. We know, given how Demonreach was created, that Merlin played with time… hard. We also know Harry will at some point break the law against time travel. We know Harry felt a kinship to Demonreach even before he claimed it… why is that?
It makes sense for Harry to… be… Merlin.
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Seriously.
Merlin is said to remember the future the way other man remember the past. We know, given how Demonreach was created, that Merlin played with time… hard. We also know Harry will at some point break the law against time travel. We know Harry felt a kinship to Demonreach even before he claimed it… why is that?
It makes sense for Harry to… be… Merlin.
I believe Luccio explained what Harry experienced on the island as "wizard's foresight." I agree there is a connection to Merlin, it was strongly hinted that Eb has his journals. Now while it is possible that they have been handed down from master to apprentice over the centuries, I still think there may very well be a remote blood connection.
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I really think Harry… is… Merlin… we will see.
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I really think Harry… is… Merlin… we will see.
What if Merlin is a Mantle? And no not like the title in the White Council.... though in thinking that, maybe Merlin is a Mantle that was forgotten (on purpose or by accident) but though lore/history the White Councile adopted it a title.
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I really think Harry… is… Merlin… we will see.
I think that'd have to be an off-stage event. Harry is a long, long way from doing Merlin-caliber work. Centuries at least; maybe even millennia (n.b. wizards don't have millennia-long lifespans). Also, the Harry we have seen is frankly not smart enough; he's not stupid or anything, but (for example) Butters in a few months' tutelage from Bob had figured out a bunch of magic that had never occurred to Harry. But Merlin-caliber magic is (that we've seen) extraordinarily complex.
The only way I could see it happening is if he gets some sort of extra magical knowlege, an Intellectus of magic or etc; and not on a "lab assistant" basis like Bob, as the struggles Bob has educating Harry are well-known. He needs something internal. As I recall, though, Bob wouldn't be enough -- not even Bob understood most of the rune-work, when Harry took him out to look at the island.
Merging with the Archive might do it; or with Demonreach itself (though AFAIK the Archive is bound to a female-descent bloodline, & likely has extremely-potent magic to prevent anyone else from interfering; and a Demonreach-merger would cause a tautological paradox: Merlin creating Demonreach who creates Merlin).
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I believe Luccio explained what Harry experienced on the island as "wizard's foresight."
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Yes; Luccio apparently recognized the phenomenon well.
I'm working with that idea as provisionally the correct explanation.
But... we should recall that Luccio was (iirc) under Peabody's influence at the time, and so it's possible Peabody implanted some memories/explanations to feed misinformation to Harry. I think it's VERY possible that the Black Council has paid enough attention to the island & the Warden role to have a very clear idea what to expect. Having a ready explanation that side-tracks Harry might have been something Peabody had planned in advance.