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Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Serack:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on July 10, 2016, 11:00:36 PM ---This is one of the more interesting new WoJ from yesterday. It's only fitting that the most British character in the DV so far is associated with time magic. In hindsight, we could have probably guessed this based off Doctor Who, Big Ben, and Jim's sense of irony.
So, based on this I'm going to make a WAG that Chandler will be Harry's companion/sidekick in the time travel book (crosses fingers in the hopes that it's titled Second Chance). While we're at it, it seems that Chandler as the British prisoner in Demonreach is a valid possibility as well if Chandler needed to wait out some time shenanigans.
Am I the only one that didn't realize that Chandler was part of the young faction of wardens?
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Wait, you can combine those two theories and make Harry's TT companion British Prisoner TT Chandler... Which is an awesome theory! (Edit: And probably what you were trying to say)
Ragnar__Danneskjold:
A common trope with Time Travel stories is the bitter jaded hero/sympathetic villain goes back in time to prevent some cataclysm from happening after identifying the key point in the past that he needs to "fix" in order to prevent things for happening the way they did. The only problem is that this usually is what ends up causing, at least in part, the events in the first place, which is why things still did happen the way they did. See any number of Star Trek/Star Gate/other sci fi shows for a myriad of examples of this. Efforts to change the past create the exact past that they are trying to change.
So a possible theory is that TTH is going back in time to prevent Molly from getting kidnapped and this becoming the WL. Perhaps she goes bad in the future and he thinks that he can change it to prevent her from getting kidnapped (or dare I say rescued) so that she never gets primed to become WL and thus doesn't go bad. The only thing is we already know (and he should too) that the efforts to prevent the events of PG fail. The locked theater does nothing. The fetches and other magical barriers don't work, and things do happen exactly the way they do and she does end up becoming WL.
I would wager that this could even be applied to other mysterious events that we've seen happen. The drive by car event, fixing LC, etc. TTH goes back in time in order to try to fix something, but his efforts to fix it are actually what caused things to happen exactly the way they did. Maybe someone (Mab, Nic, etc) lies* to him and tells him that he can go back in time to fix things, only they know that he needs to go back in time, not to fix it, but to ensure that the events unfold the way they really did.
*Or cleverly tells the truth but in such a way to give Harry the wrong impression.
raidem:
There is WOJ I just looked at today that suggests we will find out who fixed LC in book 20 or so.
Though that was from 2011 but it highly suggets some connection to Denarians like Serack suggested since book 20 follows the multiple of 5 format.
--- Quote ---In what book will we find out who fixed Little Chicago?
Probably not until 19 or 20. Since I'm a lazy writer, probably 20. I think that would be good for the last of the case files, so I'll hold off on that one.
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--- Quote ---Wait, you can combine those two theories and make Harry's TT companion British Prisoner TT Chandler... Which is an awesome theory! (Edit: And probably what you were trying to say)
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I've also suggested in the past that Chandler's note to Harry in Changes coupled with Luccio's was that there were two messages sent to two different Harry's. One Harry, other IdHarry. I also wonder if perhaps there was information that Chandler got via time divination that he provided to Harry.
a3dfiend:
Has anyone ever compiled a list of all the stuff that is "off" in PG? Just a bullet point list of the things that dont add up to the rest of the series or dont line up with the events of the big picture?
After reading the series so many times, I kind of think that PG doesnt take place in the same timeline/reality as the rest of the series. Just to name one thing really quick: Why does the sign in Mac's say "Accorded Neutral Ground" instead of the "Accorded Neutral Territory" like all of the other books post GP?
Maybe Ill try to set up a list like that and post it on its own thread after reading it again...
raidem:
I actually had a topic I wrote exactly on that sign of Mac's. Let me see if I have it still or if it got shredded.
It got shredded. To recreate the list I gathered simply look for instances of "accorded neutral" in the books, then post those occurrences.
There is also a thread on inconsistencies in the Dresden Files. It is somewhere in the reference collection.
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