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Who if anyone will Harry save in Mirror Mirror

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Smaug with OCD:

--- Quote from: groinkick on October 10, 2017, 04:17:30 AM ---Well I'm wondering that there may be someone who has died in the previous books whom Harry might get an opportunity to save in Mirror Mirror.  Although he's not saving the actual person who died, in a way it will feel good for Harry to at least save them in another reality.  Of all the people who have died up to this point, who do you think would be cool to see saved?  I would start a poll but there are really a lot of people who have died so will just leave it up to you to write down, and why you'd like to see it.

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I'm not really certain how to approach this question, if only because there are multiple ways to do so. There's the first, and most obvious, which has been discussed a lot below: "Who might Harry save in the Mirrorverse?" Assuming self-containment. The other way I see this question, and the potentially far more interesting(though possibly less-likely) is: "Who does Harry save in the Primeverse via retrieving their alternate self from the Mirrorverse?"

This reason I suggest this alternative spin on the question is the, honestly, if MM ends up being a self-contained side-trip done solely for the thrill of having Harry jump dimensions... it will be a waste. SOMETHING that happens in the Mirrorverse MUST effect what goes down in the Primeverse. Or, why does it happen at all? So! I put forward that Harry - in the tradition of Star Treck and Anne McCafrey's Dragonflight and lots and lots of other time-travel stories everywhere - brings someone BACK with him. Or, at least learns something MAJOR while in the Mirrorverse. Both? I don't know.

But, I figured I'd throw the possibility out there for people to speculate on. If it were to happen, I doubt it would be Morgan. He's not really the kind of guy to skirt the edges of the Laws.

NOTE: I couldn't find a pithy way to fit this last part in, so I'm just gonna put it out there, too. Another option could even be that Harry - in his fashion of doing silly things with magic - brings back someone who DIDN'T die yet. So, we get two of the same person, but with wildly different experiences over the last decade, running around.

Thoughts?

wardenferry419:
I think I prefer him to bring some object or item back as an ace in hole, a little secret that nobody knows.

ebliss1:
Hannah Asher. They are both on the run and wanted by the Wardens. Harry will take the opportunity to save her from getting stuck as Lasciel's Host.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: ebliss1 on October 11, 2017, 10:25:54 AM ---Hannah Asher. They are both on the run and wanted by the Wardens. Harry will take the opportunity to save her from getting stuck as Lasciel's Host.

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I'm kind of expecting -Harry to have taken up the coin himself, unless things had already diverged so far by DM that Nicodemus never offered it to him.



--- Quote from: Smaug with OCD on October 11, 2017, 06:53:22 AM ---The other way I see this question, and the potentially far more interesting(though possibly less-likely) is: "Who does Harry save in the Primeverse via retrieving their alternate self from the Mirrorverse?"

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It's not like we can do this every week. We get three or four more of these, tops.

ebliss1:

--- Quote ---I'm kind of expecting -Harry to have taken up the coin himself, unless things had already diverged so far by DM that Nicodemus never offered it to him.
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Its certainly possible, but I'm guessing that if Mirror Harry is resorting to body-snatching as a way of keeping the White Council off his trail, he probably doesn't have the Coin. The Denarians never seem to be desperately looking for ways to evade pursuit. Quite the contrary, they usually seem to be pretty well off and reasonably secure in their place in the world except when the Knights of the Cross show up. Also, if Mirror Harry had Lasciel's Coin, he would be a part of the Denarians as a whole, which would make him another signatory of the Accords, and as such, insulated from any sort of punitive measures the White Council would want to dish out.

I like the Asher angle since she would represent some sort of kindred soul to Mirror Harry. On the run from the White Council. A powerful wizard who feels railroaded by the White Council's draconian rules that they feel are out of line with how Harry and Hannah feel their situations should be viewed, and so on. I can also easily see our Harry meeting up with Mirror Hannah and, knowing full well how she turned out when she took up Lasciel's Coin in our universe, he tries to help her to keep her from ending up the same way. I could also easily see Jim having our Harry bring her back to our universe. The White Council here think's she's dead, and doing so would put her beyond the reach of the Mirror White Council. Having our Harry "save" Mirror Hannah would also give Jim an easy way to have Harry retcon something from our universe without throwing things completely out of whack.

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