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Proven Guilty: An update to my previous thoughts on the topic
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Cozarkian on October 16, 2017, 02:22:18 PM ---Another WAG I've had that supports the Mab connection.
Harry was saved from using LC by a timely phone call from Molly. Assuming someone knew Harry was about to use it and wanted to save him, the easiest method would be to have a chat with Molly at the police station to help her realize she already knows someone who can help - Harry.
We've seen Mab use false personas. I think she appeared to Molly off-screen masquerading as a friendly ear and prompted the call to Harry. It makes more sense than Molly fortuitously calling at that exact moment.
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Holy crap, I never even thought about that at all.
Why did Mouse growl then but not later? It wasn't Nelson's presence, because Mouse was fine in the hospital with the girl, and Molly had done the same thing to both of them.
raidem:
--- Quote ---Why did Mouse growl then but not later?
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This is my understanding of Mouse growling.
First, Harry assumed Mouse was growling at the car parked behind in police parking lot. It turned out to be Thomas. Or, was there something near the police entrance that Mouse was picking up on and Harry incorrectly blamed it on the the person following him.
Second, We assume Mouse was picking up on black magic on Molly
--- Quote ---Molly smiled at the dog and reached down to pet him.
Mouse tensed up, and a low rumbling came from his chest. Molly moved her hand toward him again, and my dog’s chest suddenly rumbled with a deep and warning growl.
The last time Mouse had growled at anything—for that matter, made much noise at all—it had been a crazed sorcerer who made fair headway toward eviscerating me, and summoned a twenty-foot-long demon cobra to kill my dog. Mouse killed it instead. Then, at my command, Mouse killed the sorcerer, too.
And now he was growling at Molly.
“Be polite,” I told him firmly. “She’s a friend.”
Mouse gave me a look and then fell quiet again. He sat calmly as Molly let him sniff her hand and scratch at his ears, but his wary body language didn’t change.
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--- Quote ---Molly got it. Her face went white and she whispered, “Oh, God. She’ll be so…” She folded her arms and shook her head several times. Then she said,
“I’ve got to…” She looked around, and in a louder voice said, “I’m dying for coffee. Anyone else need some?”
Nobody did. Molly picked up her purse and turned around to walk for the door. In doing so, she brushed within a foot or two of Mouse. Instead of growling, though, Mouse leaned his head affectionately against her leg as she went by, and cadged a few ear scratches from the girl before she left.
I frowned at Mouse after Molly had gone. “Are you going bipolar on me?”
He settled down again immediately. Murphy went on asking Rosie fairly predictable questions about the attack.
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Edit: Some pointed out it seems sort of irrelevant or at least insignificant from a doylist perspective to go back to Harry visiting Molly at Police hq.
Talby16:
I like this Proven Guilty theory. Neatly ties up some of the loose ends. I confess, it never occurred to me that Mab was intentionally kidnapping Molly to keep her away from the Black Council. If I am understanding your theory correctly, the fetches were sent by Mab the whole time using Molly's behavior changing action as the link. The eldest fetch was sent to take care of Glau and protect/test/train Harry.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: raidem on October 16, 2017, 03:27:33 PM ---This is my understanding of Mouse growling.
First, Harry assumed Mouse was growling at the car parked behind in police parking lot. It turned out to be Thomas. So, was there something in the police HQ that Mouse was growling at.
Second, We assume Mouse was picking up on black magic on Molly
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Sure, but it doesn't make sense that Mouse would pick up on it at the police station but not be similarly distressed later. The Gatekeeper's note specifies that it's been "repeated acts of black magic over the last ten days," and we know Nelson was hit first. It's not like she had just done some black magic, you know? Rosie's was fresher, so he should be more on edge.
Unless he took Harry's "She's a friend" to heart, and just gave it a pass.
raidem:
Yeah, It was why I had wondered if it was a TTMolly that Mouse had met on one occasion and the real Molly on the other. But, that kinda gets a bit TT screwy.
Less TT screwy would be say Goodman Grey, or someone like him, impersonated Molly in first interaction.
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