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King Ash:

--- Quote ---Does anyone have a searchable copy of the df? I dont have my books, but there is a quote in sk where lea talks about how much she cared for maggie, and one in gp where she talks about how long they were together. Also the comment in pg where maeve talks about love majing the sidhe insane.
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Can't find anything in Summer Knight about Maggie other than this comment:

--- Quote ---She let out a peal of laughter. “No, silly child. Simply put your hand in mine. I will convey you.”
I gave her a sidelong look and asked warily, “At what price?”
“None.”
“None? You never do anything without a price.”
She rolled her eyes and clarified, “None to you, child.”
“Who, then?”
“No one you know, or knew,” Lea said.
An intuition hit me. “My mother. That’s who you’re talking about.”
Lea left her hand extended. She smiled, but only said, “Perhaps.”
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That was searching for Lea, Leanansidhe, Maggie, Margaret, and Mother within Summer Knight.

Grave Peril

--- Quote ---“Treacher!” spat my godmother. She rose up from the ground, blackened and burned, her fine dress in tatters about her waist, her body and limbs stretched, knobby, and inhuman. She clenched her hands into fists at her sides, and the fire from the building around us seemed to rush down, gathering in her grasp in a pair of blazing points of violet and emerald light. “Treasonous, poisonous child! You are mine as your mother swore unto me! As you swore!”
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--- Quote ---She’s bad, Harry. Some of them are merely alien, but that one is… malevolent. She enjoys causing pain.”
“Yeah,” I said. “I didn’t exactly pick her.”
“Who did?”
I shrugged. “My mother, I think. She was the one with power. My fatherwasn’t a wizard. Wasn’t into their world.”
“I don’t understand why she would do that to her child.”
Something inside me broke with a little snapping sensation, and I felt tearsat my eyes. I scowled. They were a child’s tears, to go with a child’s old pain. “Idon’t know,” I said. “I know that she was mixed up with some bad people. Bad beings. Whatever. Maybe Lea was one of her allies.”
“Lea. It’s short for Leanandsidhe, isn’t it.”
“Yeah. I don’t know her real name. She takes blood from mortals and gives them inspiration in return. Artists and poets and things. That’s how she
amassed most of her power.”
Michael nodded. “I’ve heard of her. This bargain you have with her. What is it?”
I shook my head. “It isn’t important.”
Something shifted in Michael, became harder, more resolute. “It is important to me, Harry. Tell me.”
I stared at the babies for a minute, before I said, “I was a kid. Things fell out with my old teacher, Justin. He sent a demon to kill me, and I went on the run. I made a bargain with Lea. Enough power to defeat Justin in exchange for my service to her. My loyalty.”
“And you broke faith with her.”
“More or less.” I shook my head. “She’s never pushed it before now, and I’ve been careful to stay out of her way. She doesn’t usually get this involved with mortal business.”
Michael moved his hand to Amoracchius’s empty scabbard. “She did take the sword though.”
I winced. “Yeah. I guess that was my fault. If I hadn’t have tried to use it to weasel out of the deal…”

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--- Quote ---“Why?” she said, finally, her voice very quiet, pitched only for me. “Why would you do this to yourself, Harry? I don’t understand.”
“I didn’t think you would,” I said. “There are people who need me. People who are in danger because of me. I have to help them.”
“You cannot help them if you are dead.”
“Nor if I am taken by you.”
“You would give your own life in place of theirs?” she asked, her tone incredulous.
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because no one else can do this. They need me. I owe it to them.”
“Owe them your life,” Lea mused. “You are mad, Harry Dresden. Perhaps it comes of your mother.”
I frowned. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Lea shrugged. “She spoke as you do. Near the end.” She lifted her eyes to Michael and straightened on the horse. “A dangerous play you made tonight, wizard. A bold play. You cut the traditions of my people very close to the bone. I accept your bargain.
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Those are the only conversations that Harry's mum comes up in relation to Lea. I dont really recall anything about Lea talking about how she cared for his mother or them spending time together, only that Maggie bargained with Lea to protect Harry.

Ms Duck:
Thanks ! I found th sk quote, will toss it in when i get to my pc instead of my dumb phone. Lol

Thork:

--- Quote from: knnn on May 06, 2012, 03:20:26 AM ---
How do you get a Fetch to come to Earth?  Well, you need to summon it with a load of fear.  Enter Madrigal, puppet of the Black Council.  As Madrigal says, he was invited to come to the convention a year previous.  ...Right around the time the Darkhallow failed?

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I'm not sure the Black Council was "desperate", or that the Darkhallow was their primary goal. I do think their apparent goal at this point is destabilization and chaos -- knocking over and weakening as many of the big supernatural players as possible.

Here's a question though: was Molly a target of opportunity, or the original plan? A horror convention with a Malvora in attendance is a great way to send in fetches to Chicago and give Harry something to do, but who knew -- a year in advance -- that Molly would be developing magical talent?  There is that quote in Grave Peril where Lea asks for Michael's eldest child, but that could be general "fae ask for eldest child" trope, not specific evidence.

Ms Duck:
Or possibly 'winter wants molly'. I think the malvora was a stooge, set up to take the blame if things backfired. Mab has multiple plans running at once.

Cenphx:
What I dont get is why, if the fetches were sent to kidnap Molly, did they go around beating up, scaring and killing a bunch of other people? Were they just *that bad* at the job Mab sent them there for? I remember some of the hobs got sidetracked collecting people to eat while trying to get to Ivy in SmF, but the fetches seem like somehwat hihger level servitors. Plus there were multiple waves of fetches sent. Once the first or second wave didnt aacheive their objective to get Molly, you'd think the third one wouldve been laser focused on her and precise, but it doesnt seem like they were.

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