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Unsolved Mystery Book6 Lord Raith
Arjan:
--- Quote from: jonas on December 07, 2017, 08:22:45 PM ---Aye. Or at least be able to take off the initial blinders, take one step to the side of the situation. Whether it be your own view point or the one your reading..
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It would be interesting to read a scene from the books not from Harry's perspective but from somebody else involved in that scene. That could be revealing.
Bacchus:
whats her side to compensate for what shes done?
as far as we know shes never broken any laws of magic (i vaguely recall some mistfiend thing but that was against Dresden and he didn't tell anyone)
so the council have no reason to kill her, she just hid while justin tried to kill dresden (probably) she had no real need to hide at all and as i said she is extremely powerful, shes not some battered wife with nowhere to turn.
she would have come across as a total victim and one with amazing potential. only a few of the most rabid anti warlock guys would have wanted her dead..... unless she had other reasons to want to hide
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Bacchus on December 07, 2017, 09:31:31 PM ---whats her side to compensate for what shes done?
as far as we know shes never broken any laws of magic (i vaguely recall some mistfiend thing but that was against Dresden and he didn't tell anyone)
so the council have no reason to kill her, she just hid while justin tried to kill dresden (probably) she had no real need to hide at all and as i said she is extremely powerful, shes not some battered wife with nowhere to turn.
she would have come across as a total victim and one with amazing potential. only a few of the most rabid anti warlock guys would have wanted her dead..... unless she had other reasons to want to hide
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When she hid from justin both Harry and Elaine were very young and Justin was a powerful wizard. Harry was just 16. Harry only got the courage to confront Justin after he made a deal with Lea but he did that because he thought he had no other option. Justin would follow him to the end of the earth. Elaine was not extremely powerful at that moment and there was no way she would even think she was able to handle Justin.
Adding to that she was enthralled which can influence a lot of things. There was a lot of fire and magic during the battle so she probably ran while everything was burning. She was 16 and homeless. She was not that strong in her magic yet and she did not know who was alive or not. If Justin's dead boke the enthrallment or not her mind was still messed up because of it.
And then came some Sidhe Lady with a deal. Harry could not make a good deal with Lea so I don't expect Elaine to make a good deal either.
These are not static characters and at that moment they were just children really.
--- Quote ---“All the wishing in the world will not change the past, my godson,” Lea said. “You would like to believe that perhaps Justin had hidden good intentions of some sort. That what happened between you was some kind of misunderstanding. But you understood him perfectly.”
“Yeah. Probably. I’d forgotten how much it hurt—that’s all,” I said quietly. “I’d forgotten how much I loved him. How much I wanted him to be proud of me.”
“Children are vulnerable,” Lea said. “They are easily deceived and notoriously subject to such delusions. You are no longer a child.”
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wardenferry419:
--- Quote from: Arjan on December 07, 2017, 08:45:20 PM ---It would be interesting to read a scene from the books not from Harry's perspective but from somebody else involved in that scene. That could be revealing.
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Aren't we getting that with zoo story in Brief cases?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Arjan on December 07, 2017, 09:55:25 PM ---Adding to that she was enthralled which can influence a lot of things.
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We still don't know this.
--- Quote ---And then came some Sidhe Lady with a deal. Harry could not make a good deal with Lea so I don't expect Elaine to make a good deal either.
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Considering Lea's obligation to protect Harry by the terms of her deal with Maggie, as revealed in SK, I do wonder whether Harry effectively sold himself to Faerie for nothing (or rather, for something he already had, if he had known and demanded it).
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