Bartimaeus - comment 3 of more than 3!likesfootnotesSeptember 16 2011, 21:06:12 UTC
Alas, Ptolemy dismissed him instead and Bartimaeus returned to the grind of being summoned, mistreated, and generally being full of sarcasm for the many magicians that went on to prove that a diamond in the rough is just that. A single diamond in an awful lot of rough.
Fast forward to the presumed present and a Bartimaeus summoned by a stripling of a magician by the birth name Nathaniel (which, much to the boy's chagrin, this djinni he summoned learned - giving him great protection against all manner of magical punishment). Reminiscent in ability to Ptolemy, Nathaniel did his level best to embody every negative trait of magicians in their first interactions, but Bartimaeus did the work tasked to him (under threat of Indefinite Confinement in a tin lined with rosemary, inducing of rashes in a spirit at the best of times; the only thing worse would have been to use a box made of essence-killing silver).
All said and done, the kid turned out not that bad - there's potential there for goodness to come out of this magician. However, having jointly saved the British government, in the process bringing Nathaniel into the favour of the very worst magicians that one could be influenced by, he's not bothering to hope.
Fast forward to the presumed present and a Bartimaeus summoned by a stripling of a magician by the birth name Nathaniel (which, much to the boy's chagrin, this djinni he summoned learned - giving him great protection against all manner of magical punishment). Reminiscent in ability to Ptolemy, Nathaniel did his level best to embody every negative trait of magicians in their first interactions, but Bartimaeus did the work tasked to him (under threat of Indefinite Confinement in a tin lined with rosemary, inducing of rashes in a spirit at the best of times; the only thing worse would have been to use a box made of essence-killing silver).
All said and done, the kid turned out not that bad - there's potential there for goodness to come out of this magician. However, having jointly saved the British government, in the process bringing Nathaniel into the favour of the very worst magicians that one could be influenced by, he's not bothering to hope.
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