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[CD spoilers] Cowl = Simon reference thread

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Ben de Wal:

--- Quote from: peregrine on January 15, 2013, 04:23:23 AM ---Yeah, but as for that, it's the difference between "Was this a death curse" and "What did his death curse do?"  They were able to determine that a death curse was not cast when LaFortier get whacked.  So it's not impossible.  They were trying something far far more delicate in Edinburgh than what would be required to determine if a Death Curse was cast.  Then again, that assumes they even think to ask, and don't just take it as read that it happened.

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ya but they could only do it by how,any wards there were andthey knew how they were arranged

peregrine:
I don't think the wards were needed to determine that there was no death curse, but they were trying to pick up magical details beyond that.  Afterall, they already knew there was no curse thrown, but they were still trying to find out what happened.

Ben de Wal:
sorry   i think your corect i  miss understod what you were going for

psuliin:
Like I said, if in fact Simon's body was never found then that should have set of all kinds of alarms in the White Council. Them simply assuming that he was dead and that the body had been destroyed or removed is the least likely of all possibilities.

First, it's just never wise to assume that a member of the Senior Council is dead until you see the body. Harry himself has cheated death, and he doesn't have nearly the power, subtlety, or experience of someone like Simon Petrovich.

But even more important, the WC could not afford to make that assumption. If they were wrong, then the logical assumption was that Simon had been taken alive by the Red Court and that a member of the Senior Council was in danger of being turned into a vampire. If that happened then the Reds would gain an enormously powerful new member and a fatal load of the WC's most secret information. The had to either make sure that Simon was dead or find him (and either rescue him or kill him).

I grant that the case for Simon = Cowl is a strong one, but if it turns out to be true then the story needs to explain how Simon convinced the WC he was dead, and "the body was missing" is not going to do that.

Mortax:
Peabody lost the paperwork? :)

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