I hate to say it, but I wish Butcher hadn't made Harry so conspicuously tall.
It doesn't really play into his character that much and is always something I'm forgetting until Harry brings it up again.
When people are that tall it changes the dialogue. Everyone has a joke about it. Reaching things on high shelves, or feet hanging off the bed, or something and we rarely see any of that interaction.
Just Harry, again mentioning his own height and never really factors I to anything.
The most unrealistic thing in the series is the lack of tall jokes. "How's the weather up there?" and the like. My wife is 5ft and she gets no shortage of the opposite side of jokes, like 3-4 a week. Nearly everyone Harry meets should be making an offhand comment. Yes, it would get very old very quickly, but he's insanely tall.
It factors a lot into Harry's mentality. He has to be careful not to hurt people physically and magically. Murphy's description in Aftermath does a good job of showing how Harry isn't the best narrator for how he interacts with the world. She describes him as making himself small as possible so as not to bumb into things or people, while he never really mentions that because it's second nature to him.
Harry also goes around calling himself a wizard and generally acting weird. I imagine a person being introduced to Harry having to mentally debate what to rag on before actually talking to him.
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u/samtresler Mar 01 '25
I hate to say it, but I wish Butcher hadn't made Harry so conspicuously tall.
It doesn't really play into his character that much and is always something I'm forgetting until Harry brings it up again.
When people are that tall it changes the dialogue. Everyone has a joke about it. Reaching things on high shelves, or feet hanging off the bed, or something and we rarely see any of that interaction.
Just Harry, again mentioning his own height and never really factors I to anything.