Combat Thaumaturgy?

[Ranma1558]

Belial I think you're a bit off course thinking about the pornstar curse and magic circles. The problem is the curse caused bad things to happen to "the environment" around Dresden, a circle could no more stop the objects falling on him then it could stop a bullet from a mortal. And there is the way to get around wards and circles, light the building on fire, take the oxygen from the room, or anything else that effects the area around someone in fatal ways rather then hammer on the barrier....

[Belial666]

Umm, not really. Evocation can circumvent barriers this way. Thaumaturgy on the other hand needs a direct link to the targets. The circle would cut off that link and while it could not stop an indirect attack from hitting the target, it would certainly stop the spell from finding which target to hit.

[Drashna]

Except, a magic circle/trap is *exactly* what dresden did.  Just got screwed up. 

[ralexs1991]

Umm, not really. Evocation can circumvent barriers this way. Thaumaturgy on the other hand needs a direct link to the targets. The circle would cut off that link and while it could not stop an indirect attack from hitting the target, it would certainly stop the spell from finding which target to hit.

makes sense to me the way I see it entropy curses like the one in BR sort of magnetise the target which in turn attracts the random deadly frozen turkey to fall from the sky and kill the victim

but yeah in BR Harry was able to redirect the entropy curse from Inari  to the Blamp
hope this makes sense I'm a little sleep deprvied lol