Yes. He's an abnormally ambitious, clever and determined eleven year old, was there any question that he would be a high ranking magician in the later books? Though I was thinking he was going to turn out to be one of those cautionary tale characters, you know, too much pride and youthful arrogrance would lead to an unsavoury end. he really was in over his head in the first book. ;)

And it was done with great writing, too.

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It's spiked! (insanity, as usual). Welcome

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Rubberchickenben, must you always spike them so much?
They make my posts crazy.

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Get back on topic please.

Quite.. Umm *looks at first post again*
I still stand by my thing. Given the chance, Nat could have turned out to be a great magician, and possible not so self serving as all the others, though after all, with commoners having a say, what could he do?

I knew it. ;)

He always had the potential to be a good magician. Being able to summon a djinni or the fourteenth level after just one other summon shows that. Honestly though, I never really thought about it. It just seemed obvious that he would become great after the events of the first and second books.

And then PG came along...

And everyone cried, the end.

Boy what an anticlimactic ending Apollo

Well, its true. Poor Nat...

Now that I think about it, I reckon he counts as a great magician because he was part of the first Human-Spirit Meld with both working together.

And he worked Gladstones staff. And he saved the ministry in AoS. And he rose up in the ministry in record time. And he saved all those commoners in PG. Need I go on?

He wasn't the first Djinn-Human meld, he was the first where the djinn didn't rip out its hosts brain.

^That's why I said with both working together.

Oh, he had good enough sence to summon Bart, ofc.

Sence?
Sense.