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A Badelynge of Quackiness [spoilers for every book Jim ever wrote or ever will]
Zuriel:
Just sticking my nose in to say thank you, Ms. Duck, for taking the time to compile a very interesting and thought-provoking list of possibilities and theories that I will mull over while I'm re-reading DF. I'm lucky to have the time to read, let alone analyze every tidbit of information contained in these books.
Therefore, I bow to you, oh most wise and resourceful Ms. Duck, for providing me with enough food for thought to sustain me while I'm reading.
And I don't mean to dismiss others' POV, as you all are here just as well, contributing, for which I am also thankful.
Please continue...I'm reaping the benefit of your time and effort. :)
derrick:
--- Quote from: peregrine on June 11, 2012, 02:52:09 PM ---You can get bullets jacketed with steel, but usually they're covered with some copper alloy. But then again, if you know you're going to be shooting someone who is fae empowered, you might pick steel. Odds are a bullet fired by Kinkaid from a long distance would probably be jacketed, but it can go either way.
And, if Mab wanted to do some shenanigans with the bullet, she needs not to have affected it, she could put an illusion on Kinkaid to change his aim, or create a channel through the air to encourage the path of the bullet, and plan for the air to remain dense or not as needed for long enough even after the possible steel disrupts her magic...
It's basically impossible to tell one way or the other.
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I'm not getting into the bullet's composition...again. But instead of affecting the bullet, Mab only needed to rock the boat just a little, or something else to make Harry stumble just a bit. Much easier than manipulating an object moving 1000FPS+ or the air in the path of it's trajectory.
FWIW, I'm not totally sold on Mab being Harry's puppetmaster. That's not to say she doesn't manipulate him every chance she gets or that she's rarely successful in doing so. Even so, it's an interesting theory.
SAZ:
Of all of the Duck’s theories, I think the Black Court and the Lovecraft alliance ones are the mostly likely to have parts that are correct.
Ms Duck, you know if Molly = Mab, you are going to have a lot of folks who will want your autograph on the DF book that reveals it. You might want to invest in an auto signer or a rubber stamp to avoid a repetitive stress injury.
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: Zuriel on June 11, 2012, 05:58:16 PM ---Just sticking my nose in to say thank you, Ms. Duck, for taking the time to compile a very interesting and thought-provoking list of possibilities and theories that I will mull over while I'm re-reading DF. I'm lucky to have the time to read, let alone analyze every tidbit of information contained in these books.
Therefore, I bow to you, oh most wise and resourceful Ms. Duck, for providing me with enough food for thought to sustain me while I'm reading.
And I don't mean to dismiss others' POV, as you all are here just as well, contributing, for which I am also thankful.
Please continue...I'm reaping the benefit of your time and effort. :)
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Thank you ! (Hugs) :D
--- Quote from: SAZ on June 11, 2012, 07:01:50 PM ---Of all of the Duck’s theories, I think the Black Court and the Lovecraft alliance ones are the mostly likely to have parts that are correct.
Ms Duck, you know if Molly = Mab, you are going to have a lot of folks who will want your autograph on the DF book that reveals it. You might want to invest in an auto signer or a rubber stamp to avoid a repetitive stress injury.
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actually, I agree about the lovecraft. Its a fave. As to Molly/Mab, it occured to me a while back I coudl have the cart before the horse there- combine mab/lc and molly/arthur and you ge6t the idea that Mab is rasiing Molly to be her succesor- or Maeve's. she has forseen that she will die soon (the BAT comment), and is planning for Molly to take either her place or Maeves... thus Molly becomes Mab, in another way of being.
Cozarkian:
--- Quote from: Ms Duck on June 10, 2012, 08:41:49 PM ---Turn Coat and the two clue bats:
The first clue is on page 211
After Thomas is taken, Harry searched for him magically, but never uses or mentions Little Chicago. (although damaged in WN, it is fixed by this time, note SJ).. all he describes is: .
Now it is important that not only does he not mention it ( he does in every other book, whether he uses it or not, he is very proud of it.) but Bob does not mention it either. And almost the very first thing he mentions in the books is his splitting blinding headache.The second clue is on page 215
Mouse come over to talk to him, gets Harrys attention, and then when Harry bends down, harry gets a second blinding headache, and loses his train of thought. This is important because it is shown later that Mouse could have found Thomas, and he certainly believed he was a match for shaggy, or at least that harry and he together were.So someone covered the table, removed the memory from Harry and Bob, and gave Harry a headache just in time to prevent him from rescuing Thomas.
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There is a flaw with this portion of the theory that I haven't seen raised in our other discussions.
Textual evidence makes it clear Harry wouldn't have needed LC to find Thomas. Re-read PG when he is trying to find Molly. He explains to Murphy that the reason he needs LC is because Molly is no longer in Chicago and he is trying to find where she was, not where she is. Harry's normal array of tracking spells should have been quite sufficient for finding Thomas. They also would have been more effective than LC, because they could search beyond the borders of LC.
Now, it is still extremely strange that Harry doesn't mention LC (even if Harry didn't think LC would ultimately help, he still would have tried), but the above could explain why Bob doesn't mention LC (he wouldn't suggest Harrry use LC if it wasn't going to help). Thus, this argument simply points to some other motivation for preventing Harry from using LC other than preventing him from finding Thomas.
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