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syntagmaton:
I've got questions concerning the parasite. As it is the source of Harry's latest headaches I thought this may be the correct thread to ask them? (otherwise please tell me were to ask).
1. What exactly is the parasite doing in Harry's head? (beside causing headaches) Can it control Harry? Is it just eating his brains? Putting eggs in it?
2. Why is it in his head and not in his heart? It is mentioned as the heart-beating-part of Harry's live-insurance.
3. Demonreach says that the parasite will "burst forth from his skull". In what form? As a material being? Is it something with an outer form? Molly/Grasshopper being able to help suggested that it is something only a mind-reader can detect?
4. Is there a connection between the specific thoughts Harry is thinking and his headaches? Does the parasite react on thoughts by biting his nerves, if it doesn't like the thoughts? Maybe it is eating thoughts and just doesn't like every flavour? When it spits them out again, Harry feels ice picks dugging into his skull?

Cenphx:
@Vairelome-theres a fairly good discussion of some of your points (not answers per se, but discussion) in the 'crazy HWWB theory revisited', but I just wanted to address your part my idea that Lash isnt the parasite necessarily means that im saying the person who talked to Jim is lying. I definitely do not want to be implying that. Im not saying it nor do I beleive it. Here's what I do think--thats an unambiguous statement by Jim. It doesnt fit, for me, with the kinds of ways he usually tells us things, so I wonder if he is being 'tricksy.' the evidence used to support the idea that the parasite is Lash is not as strong as it seems as first blush. The implications for Harry and the DF if the parasite is a walker are really interesting and have the kind of ramifications Jim seems to like in these books. Best of all we should have our answer about the parasite in the next book, so it wont be a unanswered proposition for long. Thats why I am keeping open the idea that the parasite is someone other than Lash while I accept the veracity of the person who talked to Jim.

syntagmaton:

--- Quote from: Cenphx on December 13, 2012, 03:03:18 PM ---the evidence used to support the idea that the parasite is Lash is not as strong as it seems as first blush. The implications for Harry and the DF if the parasite is a walker are really interesting and have the kind of ramifications Jim seems to like in these books.
--- End quote ---
If there is a He-who -walks-behind and a He-who-walks-before, there should be a possibility of a He-who walks-in ... in your head ... or better: between (your ears), as it starts with a "b"  :)

Cenphx:
Regarding why the parasite is in Harry's head and not his heart, when its described as being able to keep his heart going-i think the parasite is in the lower portion of bis brain and spinal column which regulates the nervous system and your heart beating (and matches up to where Harry was first injured by HWWBh).

Cenphx:
After reading the list, what does everyone think about the theory that Lash is causing the headaches? It doesnt seem like a pattern of a type of headache actually matches up to when Lash dies/would be regenerating. I am alone in that feeling?? (before this list, I thought the headaches DID match up to Lash)

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