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Ghost Story Book Club - Chapters 36-45 **MAJOR SPOILERS**
rbette1299:
All of those extra questions bothered me too. Lea doesn't give information for free. She let him ask those extra questions because she wanted to tell him something important with her answers. So her answers mean something. It would have been her typical style to shut him down and tell him he was exceeding the agreement. So what is in it for her? We know from the sword story that she plays the long game. What is her long game? We still do not know what she promised his mother. I think it wasn't just to watch his back. There will be something in it for her.
JinElusion:
I felt some way about the multiple questions. Lea could have been like a trickster genie who gets you to make wishes u never intended to and just shut down Harry after his third actual question. However, all the inbetween questions Harry asked were really subquestions to his original one. I don't know if Lea was obligated to answer the original question as fully as possible and thus allowed Harry to fish for a more full answer through questions. The whole Fae obligation is tricky and very hard to map out sometimes, but i think that is the point.
taishojojo:
Even from that conversation you should know that parity is an issue. Yes, Sidhe work literally, but, if she felt Harry were giving valuable information and her answering, "Yes, I'll answer another question." counts as a question then she'd owe Harry more. Also, she was thumbing her nose at greater powers, during that conversation, so she may have felt parity was maintained.
BadHumours:
She answers more than three questions because she has her reasons; no argument there.
But doesn't Harry wonder what they are? Why isn't he more careful? He's become much more comfortable with Lea over the past few books (which will probably come back to haunt him later), but he shouldn't be this complacent, even if being a ghost does make him maudlin.
I just found this scene disappointing.
JinElusion:
I see your point, especially with Harry getting more comfortable with Lea. But i also think the way Fae obligations work are sometimes literal but sometimes complicated. Harry being someone who has dealt with the Fea a lot may have sense of when an obligation can be stretched through technicality. Eh, i really dont know.
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