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Mab preventing use of Little Chicago
Tami Seven:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on February 02, 2015, 04:56:06 PM ---We don't know why she would not want him to use it. Maybe it was to force him to use Demonreach. Maybe she was worried about the backlash if it succeeded and Shagnasty tried eating his astral form. Maybe it was something else altogether.
All we know is that the circumstances are similar to those when she'd taken his memories previously, and there's no obvious reason for Harry not to use it.
Yeah, the "Mab knows everything" thing is obnoxious. I think it has to be a more direct reason that we're just not seeing, if she did in fact do it. When she took his memory of fire magic before, it was to protect him from being tracked by it. there's got to be something just as simple. I just can't think of what it could be.
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Harry uses LC to find Thomas, Shagnasty kills them both leaving Morgan exposed and vulnerable, so he dies too without the traitor being exposed. Possibly Molly dies trying to protect Morgan.
Long term, Mab loses her would-be Knight, her would-be WL, the Black Circle/Council/whatever becomes more powerful.
namkcas:
--- Quote ---Harry uses LC to find Thomas
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But we already know that this is not true.
knnn:
--- Quote from: namkcas on February 02, 2015, 05:24:49 PM ---But we already know that this is not true.
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Remember the other "surpression" (the headache with Mouse). Harry seems to think that Mouse would have been able to find Thomas.
namkcas:
--- Quote ---Remember the other "surpression" (the headache with Mouse). Harry seems to think that Mouse would have been able to find Thomas.
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We know from Proven Guilty that using LC does NOT make a tracking spell work. It simply makes a workable tracking spell more useful (remember Harry needed more than Baby Hair?). And there is no proof that a headache makes a suppression by Mab or that it made him forget Mouse. So, my assertion is that making Harry not use LC was like a null...it made him use something that would not work.
Tami Seven:
--- Quote from: namkcas on February 02, 2015, 05:41:34 PM ---We know from Proven Guilty that using LC does NOT make a tracking spell work. It simply makes a workable tracking spell more useful (remember Harry needed more than Baby Hair?). And there is no proof that a headache makes a suppression by Mab or that it made him forget Mouse. So, my assertion is that making Harry not use LC was like a null...it made him use something that would not work.
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You're missing the point. We have to assume that Harry would have used LC because he has done it before and he is satisfied enough with how well it works that he keeps going back to it. Would have, that is, if he had remembered to do so.
It's not for us to judge how effective LC is. If Harry thought it was a waste of time he would have dismantled it long time ago. Obviously he thinks it's worthwhile to keep and to use.
And it is fairly clear that someone didn't want Harry to use Mouse either. Tie those two together, along with, admittedly circumstantial evidence, and it clearly points to someone tampering with Harry in some way.
We Know that Mab has the power and the opportunity to do so. But, if it wasn't Mab we'd have to ask who else coudl it have been?
If it was just LC, or Just Mouse alone it wouldn't be so significant.
If it was important enough in the Plot for Harry to have his memory if it tampered with about it, then it's no where near Null.
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