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isoycrazy:
Question.  Just how severe does a threshold and hospitality protect a person? 

Say Murphy angered a summer fae.  Without crossing the threshold, could this fae get vengeance by burning Murphy's home to the ground  with her in it?

Or the same with Harry, and be like the Ebs and burn his place down?  Or is it because the damage couldn't be garunteed to stop at just Harry's place, harm would befall innocent bystandards or their property, and that unjust harm would mean the fae is now in debt to these mortals for his stupid actions, the fae would just wait until Harry is more in the open to take vengeance?

That makes me wonder if Titania fitted the bill for the damage Tiny Gruff did to the train station?

DonBugen:
That's an interesting question. Reds can't cross a threshold, but as demonstrated, a well-tossed molotov cocktail does the job for them.

I think the answer has to do with how the fire is attempted, and the strength of the threshold. If a summer Fae tried sending fireballs against Murph's house, I'm sure that the magic would just splash harmlessly against her threshold. Lily's ball o' sunshine might get through in a very weakened state. Of course, a burning branch tossed against the house wouldn't be hindered.

But then, there's the question of what one can do and what one would do. There's a lot of rules and laws about faeries appearing behind ones threshold, and faeries are notorious lawyers about these sorts of things. Honestly, I do wonder if a Faerie would even try to be so gauche as to get behind a threshold or do something untoward to a person behind their threshold. Only the most powerful probably could attempt it (remember, Butters was safe in Murphy'so house) and it just seems like something that one does not do.

Last - Titania, cover the costs at the train station? Not likely. Though I think that Mac might have received some sort of compensation for his ceiling fans. Everyone in the Dresdenverse loves Mac.

Rasins:
If you'll recall, the Cat Sith said about the laws of hospitality that if he were threatened, he'd leave and wait until they were no longer behind a threshold to take his vengeance.

Now that does not mean that they couldn't do like the Ebs and throw a something afire at the house.  Actually I don't think the Eb's Molotov Cocktail even his Harry's door, didn't it hit his stairs and spread from there?

jonas:

--- Quote ---That's an interesting question. Reds can't cross a threshold,
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Do we know that for sure? Cause Archangel was actually lived at for instance. Might not have had a strong homely feel but multiple people stayed there too. An they stomped all over it... I'm just wondering if it's explicitly stated or just a generalized assumption.

DonBugen:
Almost 100% positive; Harry states it (I think) either in Storm Front or Grave Peril. I'll have to look tomorrow to get the exact statement. It might have been something like, "Reds can't cross without completely incapacitating themselves."  Thoughave in my memory, he was comparing black, red, and white, so maybe it was later.

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