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As cool as winter, as hot as summer and all Wizard [Harry Dresden]-Next book is not out!
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"I returned the bones when I was done with them. Really, i just commandeered them. And it was self defense when I desecrated all of those remains, plus technically they were already desecrated."
"Oh my God, that building is on fire. "
"THAT WASN'T MY FAULT."
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Removing the exhibit would be illegal, but I'm willing to bet that the law doesn't cover what happens if the exhibit removes itself. Otherwise yeah.
"It was like that when I got here, and the building is still structurally sound so stop complaining."
But, again, the point is that Harry can make people very, very nervous.
And when he realizes just how nervous he can make them, that scene was pretty awesome, because the difference in how he sees himself, and how others not close to him see him, is pretty huge.
That's like arguing that stealing a car is totally fine, because you did not physically carry it.
Sue was leaving the building anyway, Harry was just being a good samaritan and making sure she didn't cause too much trouble. It's like going to a picnic and keeping an eye on the one year old when it wanders off to try and put things in its mouth. Exactly like that.
My memory fails me, was Sue animated before Harry got to it?
Because i was pretty sure Harry was the one who animated it.
He was. Pretty sure that Illinois doesn't have a lot of laws that cover necromancy though. Totally legal. Except for the B & E.
Yoiur argument is the worst kind of rules lawyering.
But there is no rules against laser weapons in football, so i am totally allowed to incinerate opposing team to death.
Harry removed the dinosaur exhibit from the museum, means of how he did it have no real bearing on that.
There's a best kind of rules lawyering? I'm also not seeing how lasers wouldn't improve football, both American and regular. C'mon, lasers.
Murder is murder, even if used by means not generally used, same for theft.
Only escape Harry has is that nobody has evidence or means to prove his crimes.
Are you talking legally or ethically?
Ethically? Sure, absolutely. Entirely his responsibility.
Legally? If you wish somebody to death real hard from a state away the law is not written in any way that is going to result in you going to jail.
Dresen-verse still has that weird veneer of being set in a "normal" world where 99% of people don't know that magic/faeries/demons exist and the laws don't make any accommodation for them.
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Now, how you would prove someone caused a death by just thinkingvery hard, is another matter.
Harry is in the clear, because his crimes can't be proven, but that does not mean he did not commit a crime.
The only ones who could do anything legally speaking would be the White Counsel and they're ok letting this go.
I am treating the subject with all the seriousness it deserves. The subject being:
Ignoring all the property damage of course. Maybe some weapons charges too, I think Murphy has looked the other way a few times on that sort of stuff.
Fine, i'm out.
Or maybe I don't think legal discussions of the Dresden Files needs to get to debate death match levels of seriousness.
I suppose Butcher could write a book or short story about some supernatural insurance claims adjuster who has to tell the museum that their coverage, extensive as it is, doesn't include damages incurred during a T-Rexurection, but given how long Peace Talks is taking, I'm not inclined to suggest with any real conviction that he add more to his plate until he finishes that fucking book. :-P
He's probably helping out Martin with Winds of Winter, so once that gets sorted Peace Talks will come right out.
An insurance agent is having a very unfortunate discussion with Marcone about how they're going to have to raise his property insurance rates. Marcone eventually agrees and makes a note to trash something of Harry's, just on principle. Marcone then makes another note that he's going to have to sneak Harry a gift so that Harry has something that Marcone can trash.
People have been convicted of murder before even when nobody can actually figure out how they did it. All that's needed is for someone to link Dresden's motives to a body and there's a case.
The whole thing about people not seeing magic stuff properly, making up explanations more complicated than what actually happened, that can also apply to "Here we have a burnt corpse and the last person seen leaving the area was this guy carrying a wooden stick. Alright boys, let's go find Mr. Harry Potter."
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Pretty sure Dresden's ok there.
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It's kind of a throw-away line though and is never mentioned again as far as I can recall.
Well, it's more of a reoccurring gag than a throw-away line. It appears in a few of the books.
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Nah. Marcone arranges for the insurance agent's home to get infested with something very dark and dangerous while the insurance agent is on vacation, and that gives Harry a tip that there's something very dark and dangerous infests a certain home. The insurance agent comes home from vacation to find smoldering ruins where his dream home once was, and it turns out that "Act of Dresden" isn't explicitly covered in his policy.
I think that incident is part of how he developed his tech hex though.
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And yes, he gets a lot of mileage out of that hex.
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But then Duke Ortega of the Red Court showed up on the show to challenge Harry to a duel, so Harry let all his pent-up magic get released in an effort to intimidate the Duke.
It also happened to blow out all the electronics in the studio.
If I didn't have a dozen books on the backlog, I'd say that I should start a long overdue re-read of the series, but I did finally start Brief Cases on a trip this week, despite owning it for, like, forever now.
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Specifically all the human magical types. A lot of magical beings exist just fine around tech.
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Yeah, there's a bit at the end of skin game that emphasizes that.
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Like as the technology seems less magical to the wizard, it's less incompatible with magic, or something.
Pretty sure
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No, it’s just that the definition of “modern tech” adjusts over time. A long time ago, magical people curdled milk. Or prevented radios from working. Nowadays, 1950s cars work okayish, but modern computerized cars shit the bed around the magically talented.
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She also has a full runed up apartment from svartalfs that make sure tech doesn't break around magic.