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Who told Monica Sells? (Wild speculation and possible series spoilers)
Electric MacButters:
After re-reading SF in preperation for Ghost Story my question is this:
Who told Monica Sells that she should go to Harry Dresden?
On page 243 of SF, when Harry soulgazes Monica Sells, he says and I quote
--- Quote ---"There hadn't been time to see all her reasons, all her logic. I still didn't know why she had drawn me into this entire business-"
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Monica knows that magic is real, but why would she go looking in the yellow pages for a wizard to challenge her husband? Harry specifically states that his advertisement is located in the yellow pages under wizard, and that he is the only entry, so she didn't find him while looking for a PI to catch her husband red handed.
I think that the quote from SF is a cluebat. Someone (or something) is preparing Harry for the trials ahead. Someone has invested several years into training Victor Sells (my guess is 4-6 years, because Monica explicitly states that he got his magic when their son was 4, and Harry guesstimated the children to be 10-13 and about 2 years younger,) but in all that time he/she neglected to inform Victor that there was a White Council that would frown on his actions if they became public. This tells me that Victor's teacher wanted him to get caught, and may even have been the one to plant the idea of going to Dresden in Monica's head.
Another possible cluebat in this vein are Victor's job and his friends. When Monica goes to Harry the first time he asks where her husband worked before he was laid off and if he had any friends or family. She said he worked for SilverCo (a trading company), he was friends with his boss, and he was estranged from his family. Serack pointed out to me that the porn studio owned by the White Court had silver in its name and that might be another clue. Also, Victor settled on lust as his emotional focus for his spells. If his teacher was White Court, he or she would be biased towards teaching Victor to harness lust over the rest of his emootions.
In Changes, (click to show/hide)Odin states that Victor's spell is the same as the Red Courts, just smaller.
Putting this together, we have Victor Sells, a potental mage who works for a possible White Court shell company and was taught (click to show/hide)a Red Court killing ritual normally reserved for only their most massive attacks. I think that Victor was actually a White Court cats paw meant to draw Harry into play on a greater game, (click to show/hide)possibly the oblivion war? I suspect that it will eventually be revealed that Victor's teacher was either Lara or Thomas Raith, and I am personally leaning more towards Lara.
Well, that's my theory. Is it crazy like a fox Duck or just plain crazy?
contraducktory:
I can follow that chain of events. However, I would think it was Papa Raith that was teaching VS. i mean, after VS failed, he started his own coven of porn start sorceresses, epic btw. And we know from what Eb said, that Papa Raith knew Arianna as well. back when Maggie Sr was hatching and plotting.
Electric MacButters:
To me Papa Raith would have gone for the kill with Harry, not try to get the ball rolling. I can see Papa teaching VS, but He would have started screaming "Kill him! Kill him! KILL HIM!!!" once Harry got involved because (click to show/hide)he believed that Harry had to die for him to feed again.
I suppose it would make sense if Papa Raith taught Victor how to perform certain select eldritch spells while Thomas 'accidentaly' mentioned to Monica that Harry Dresden is a wizard in the Chicago area who could put her husband back in his place.
itari:
--- Quote from: Electric MacButters on June 28, 2011, 09:48:53 PM ---Another possible cluebat in this vein are Victor's job and his friends. When Monica goes to Harry the first time he asks where her husband worked before he was laid off and if he had any friends or family. She said he worked for SilverCo (a trading company), he was friends with his boss, and he was estranged from his family. Serack pointed out to me that the porn studio owned by the White Court had silver in its name and that might be another clue. Also, Victor settled on lust as his emotional focus for his spells. If his teacher was White Court, he or she would be biased towards teaching Victor to harness lust over the rest of his emootions.
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Hey, I made a similar thread not long ago! ;D
Your theory is plausible, I think, although:
--- Quote ---I suspect that it will eventually be revealed that Victor's teacher was either Lara or Thomas Raith, and I am personally leaning more towards Lara.
--- End quote ---
Thomas doesn't have much magic, only few tricks. I doubt he could teach a sorcerer. Lara, on the other hand, is not a spellcaster, unless she deliberately hides it.
--- Quote from: contraducktory on June 28, 2011, 09:55:13 PM ---I can follow that chain of events. However, I would think it was Papa Raith that was teaching VS. i mean, after VS failed, he started his own coven of porn start sorceresses, epic btw. And we know from what Eb said, that Papa Raith knew Arianna as well. back when Maggie Sr was hatching and plotting.
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That would be my guess too.
contraducktory:
Depends in when he found out about what Maggie did. If he knew at that point he could gave killed Thomas at any time previous.
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