Thanks Serack!

I kind of guessed that these subjects had been discussed here somewhere, but I didn't find them on my own... It's great that there are so many people here to ask!

I can see why you wouldn't want to destroy the coins, even if you could, and in a way it makes more sense that they are more indestructible than the Swords. The Swords, after all, does not have anyone living in them. I was just kind of wondering what would be the coin equivalent of "betraying" the Swords. An act of truly altruistic goodness? Probably not (after all the road to Hell is paved and so on), but perhaps you see what I mean? But maybe that kind of reasoning does not apply to the coins.

On traveling in the Nevernever:

Even though the beings of the Nevernever seem to be hopelessly behind the changes in the human world, the Nevernever itself seems to be quite malleable to mortal will and emotion.
The roads of the Nevernever are bound to those of ours by mood or emotions.
The roads of the Nevernever occasionally change.
What then happens when the "mood" of a place changes in the mortal world, say a neighborhood that starts out as modern and popular to the upper crust and then degrades into slum, or opposite, slum that gets cleaned up and repaired? Or a playground or a fair where a murder takes place? Does the roads in the Nevernever change because the mortal world changes, or does the mortal world change because it is suddenly connected to a new part of the Nevernever?
In the extreme: could a sufficiently strong wizard use his or her ability to affect the Nevernever to also change things in our world?

Even the laws of magic in our world sometimes change (according to Bob at least) - so, related sidetrack: do they change in the Nevernever at the same time? Or before or after? Are they at any point different in the Nevernever than in this world, or can you always rely on the same algorithms in both places if you are a wizard?


According to Harry's working model of the Nevernever it seems as if it is our world that "takes the lead" and changes first, but his model focuses heavily on human emotions and several of the beings living in the Nevernever are many times older than the human species (is my impression). Did they live in the Nevernever before we came too? How was the Nevernever connected to our world then?

Or have I gotten this backwards?

On the power of a name (This question have been up before, but I did not find an answer to it):

Can you gain power over someone by giving them a name?

That knowing someone's name gives you power over them is pretty well established, but how much power do you get over someone by giving them a name? Wether it be their full, "real" name like a parent naming their child, or a nickname that the person starts to identify themselves with. Is there a difference?

Harry calls Bob back from being creepy Kemler secretary to being nice, albeit pervy, Harry secretary by reminding him of the name Harry gave him. This implies that it should grant you some measure of power, even if he might not be able to force Bob into doing something only using that name it clearly touched him, reached him, in a significant way.

Is it different for beings of a more "spiritual inclination" than humans? They do not change their names as humans do, are they also more sensitive to given names than humans? Or less? Titles seems more important to them, for example you can call upon Mab by naming her the "Queen of Air and Darkness".

What about the Archive, where on the scale does she fit? She got her name, her only name as far as we know, from Harry. But she is human. Not that I think Harry would do anything with it (not that I think he could either, considering the amount of power she has, but let's say we take that imbalance away), but if he wanted to, could he then? Could he conjure her by it for example?  Or do anything along the lines of what that dragon did at Bianca's masquerade?

Thank you so much for the pointers the answer to my last question! Here is a new one:

In SmF, Harry talks about how the Swords of the Knights of the Cross can be destroyed if someone picks them up when they are, as Lea puts it, ownerless. Destroyed as in not only rendered powerless, but also melted or shattered or otherwise made unable to function as swords normally should.

What does it take for the church to be able to destroy the coins? Not just make a bearer give them up and the fallen to loose it's power over them, but actually, physically destroy the coins?

Regarding Justins potential Death Curse...

"Or his death curse was something subtle Harry did not notice."

"From here on you shall ALWAYS take cold showers!"