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DF Spoilers / Re: Peace Talks - Continuity Notes [Spoilers]
« on: July 19, 2020, 01:06:27 PM »
Not exactly a continuity error, but Harry attributes the Hounds of Tindalos to H.P. Lovecraft. They were created by Frank Belnap Long and later incorporated into the Lovecraft Mythos by August Derleth.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Ghost Story's Lash
« on: April 20, 2018, 12:43:56 AM »
What if Lash slipped into Molly's brain when she was messing around with Harry's back in Changes? Maybe we saw her in GS masquerading as one of the Star Trek Mollys at the end of the book.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Outsider Magic
« on: June 25, 2017, 12:24:23 AM »
I always thought Grevane was detecting the ball of necromancy that Evil Bob just tried to kill Harry with a chapter or two before. I don't have my copy handy, so I can't look it up.

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She answers more than three questions because she has her reasons; no argument there.

But doesn't Harry wonder what they are? Why isn't he more careful? He's become much more comfortable with Lea over the past few books (which will probably come back to haunt him later), but he shouldn't be this complacent, even if being a ghost does make him maudlin.

I just found this scene disappointing.

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Did it bother anyone else that Harry asked Lea so many questions? She only promised him 3, but he asks like a million in between the ones he designates as the 'official' questions. Answering them all without at least quibbling about it seems very un-fairy-like. I suppose she has her own semi-scrutable-at-best reasons, but shouldn't it bother Harry?

Mostly, I'm bothered that Harry is so willing to ask questions willy-nilly, freeing Lea from any obligation to answer the questions he really wants answered. He should know better by now!

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Hi, everyone, first post.

With regard to Uriel's seven words: Uriel says that Mab is lying, but we know she is incapable of lying (Mr. Butcher thoughtfully wrote us a scene in this very book in which Dresden reminds us of this). On the other hand, nowhere is it said the Uriel is incapable of lying. He certainly seems to find it distasteful, but presumably he is capable of it, especially when issues of cosmic balance are involved.

The Fallen sent Harry along one path with a seven word* lie. It seems logical that Uriel would think it fitting to give him back his free will with another (a white lie in this case, and one that gives Harry the, perhaps misguided, courage to stand up to Mab). Bottom line: Harry is wrong. Mab has more control over him than he thinks she does.

*-Btw, anyone else excited over what is, to me at least, clearly an homage to Rothfuss?

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