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Crazy HWWB theory revisited [CD SPOILERS]

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Elegast:
Is there somewhere a list with all the quotes about Harry's migraines?

If no could you help me found them: - I know there are two in TC, one in CD , and some SmF.

Here are some, plz give all the one you have:

--- Quote from: WN ---rubbed my finger at a spot between my eyebrows where a headache was coming on.
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: TC ---He started cleaning up everything he’d set out during the improvised surgery. “So. How are the headaches?”
They’d been a problem, the past several months—increasingly painful migraines. “Fine,” I told him.
“Yeah, right,” Butters said. “I really wish you’d try the MRI again.”
Technology and wizards don’t coexist well, and magnetic resonance imagers are right up there. “One baptism in fire-extinguishing foam per year is my limit,” I said.
“It could be something serious,” Butters said. “Anything happens in your head or neck, you don’t take chances. There’s way too much going on there.”
“They’re lightening up,” I lied.
“Hogwash,” Butters said, giving me a gimlet stare. “You’ve got a headache now, don’t you?”
I looked from Butters to Morgan’s recumbent form. “Yeah,” I said. “I sure as hell got one now.”
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: SmF ---Pain stabbed me in the head, ice picks plunging into both temples. I flinched and doubled over. Blasting rod. Familiar words. I fought to summon an image of what went with the words, but I couldn’t find anything. I knew I had a memory associated with those words, but try as I might, I couldn’t drag it out. It was like a shape covered by some heavy tarp. I knew an object was beneath, but I couldn’t get to it.
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: SmF ---On the opposite side of Ivy, Rosanna launched more traditional lances of flame from her open palms, much like the ones I
—a savage pain went through my skull for a second—son of a bitch—
—but Ivy dispersed them with delicately applied wedges of air,
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: TC ---Mouse pawed at my leg and looked up at me. I bent over to scratch his ears, and instantly regretted it as someone tightened a vise on my temples. I straightened up again in a hurry, wincing, and entertained wild fantasies about lying down on the floor and sleeping for a week.
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: CD ---Demonreach growled.  In all capital letters.
And the headache vanished.
One second, my scalp was tightening up as two separate ice picks dug into my skull in the same places they always did, and the next the pain was utterly gone.
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: Changes ---Hell’s bells. Like I didn’t have enough on my mind. I rubbed my thumb against the spot between my eyebrows where the headache was forming. “I did not need this on top of everything else. Which is why she did it.”
--- End quote ---

Haru:
Was he infected? We know (?) that he got his mojo from someone in the black council, so he might have gotten the recipe for 3Eye as well. I know that people are assuming that the black council are the bad guys, but what if they are just a "the ends justify the means" sort of club? If they know what is going on and try to work against it, they are going to be all kinds of paranoid about it. If they think that everything is already lost, they might as well ignore collateral damage and just focus on gathering enough power to have a chance of standing up against the outsiders.

You could see Cowl like that, for example. At least DB Cowl. Sure, thousands of people dying is pretty bad, but it sure would have been nice to have a demigod in the trenches. On the other hand, weakening Cowl like that might have been what Nemesis needed to get inside and corrupt him, so while Harry might have saved a few thousand people that day, he might have done more harm than good in the long run.

Headaches:
I looked through TC and SmF, and there weren't really any interesting situations regarding headaches. There is in WN though:

(click to show/hide)Something like New Mexico. Jesus. I didn’t want to think about that. I rubbed at the fresh headache sprouting between my eyebrows.
Which, to me, kind of sounds like the headache Harry gets in SmF, when his mind is wandering to his blasting rod and is abruptly stopped by Mab's geas. The other headaches are, at least as far as I saw it, only due to him being exhausted or hit in the head. This one stood out, though.

Elegast:
I've gathered all the quotes about headaches I remembered.

What's highly suspicious is that "ice picks" is used in CD and SmF. In SmF it's supposed to be Mab, in CD the parasite. Mab=Lash=Molly???? This doesn't make sense at all... :-\

Elegast:
There seems to be two sets of headaches: one with 'ice picks' in the temple, the other with pain between the two eyes.

Haru:
You're right.

Maybe the ice pick headache in CD is Lash trying to find a way to communicate with Harry. She is giving him a sensation he has felt before (we know she is capable of it), and that she hopes he will associate with loss of memory, just like Mab did to him in SmF.

That is, if the whole Lash fighting Nemesis in Harry's head is correct.

The other headache might be Nemesis, or they might not have any significance at all, other than Harry being tired. Then again, given that there is a huge amount of time dedicated to the flashback to New Mexico, and here Harry is having a distracting headache, as soon as he starts to think about it, it seems too good to be a coincidence. Especially, since the ghouls returned in the deeps, so maybe something more happened in that cave with the ghouls, something that Harry is not allowed to remember.

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