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Who fixed Little Chicago?
DonBugen:
Heck, I was just diagnosed with sleep apnea. Spent my first night on the CPAP and it's like night and day.
I strongly believe that either time traveled or universe-displaced Dresden fixed it, but that's a theory on top of a theory on top of a theory on top of vague hints. The book itself flags Rashid as the most likely suspect, so I'm willing to go with that as most unlikely, as the rule of inverse literary probability means that the longer a mystery has gone unanswered, the more improbable the outcome will be.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: DonBugen on August 22, 2018, 10:04:50 PM ---The book itself flags Rashid as the most likely suspect, so I'm willing to go with that as most unlikely, as the rule of inverse literary probability means that the longer a mystery has gone unanswered, the more improbable the outcome will be.
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Rashid was actively suspicious Harry was playing for Team Outsider until confronting him with his suspicions in Turn Coat and clearing the air. I can't see him having gone out of his way to interfere with Harry maybe blowing himself up while not being sure which side he was on. (Plus, as Harry put it, keeping a voodoo doll of the city in your basement would look instantly creepy to any other wizard - Rashid finding out about that probably would have pushed any suspicions he had of Harry over the edge)
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on August 23, 2018, 03:05:12 AM ---Rashid was actively suspicious Harry was playing for Team Outsider until confronting him with his suspicions in Turn Coat and clearing the air. I can't see him having gone out of his way to interfere with Harry maybe blowing himself up while not being sure which side he was on. (Plus, as Harry put it, keeping a voodoo doll of the city in your basement would look instantly creepy to any other wizard - Rashid finding out about that probably would have pushed any suspicions he had of Harry over the edge)
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I do not think he would be that disturbed by it. Bob however would have been problematic.
I do not see the gatekeeper entering and leaving Harry’s apartment uninvited without leaving a trace however. The Sidhe can do so as the brownies regularly did.
peregrine:
--- Quote from: Arjan on August 23, 2018, 03:13:06 AM ---I do not think he would be that disturbed by it. Bob however would have been problematic.
I do not see the gatekeeper entering and leaving Harry’s apartment uninvited without leaving a trace however. The Sidhe can do so as the brownies regularly did.
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Why not? Rashid has literal centuries of experience on Harry, AND a magic eyeball. One that possibly allows him to follow patterns of energy. You don't think he can penetrate the wards of a kid with power but not a ton of finesse?
morriswalters:
The question to answer for anyone is how did they know? And Bob isn't always in the basement in the events of Proven Guilty. So JB created a moment when someone could have entered.
You could assume that a Rashid(or someone) is from a timeline where Harry is killed during the first use of Little Chicago. It is possible that in that timeline Rashid ended up possessing Bob. If Harry dying in that timeline leads to the outsiders passing the gates, then that Rashid may be trying to change that possible future. That Bob would know what went wrong and how to fix it. And he could lower the wards.
In this scenario you could plug in the name of any of the powerful ally of Harry's who could time travel. Bob is the true locus. All you have to assume is that Bob survives when Harry dies and ends up in the hands of someone able to use him, and that some dire event will happen in a future where Harry existence is critical. Such as the BAT. This ticks all the boxes pointed out by Harry and Bob, since obviously Bob knows all of those things.
--- Quote from: Proven Guilty ---“No it isn’t,” Bob said. “Just really, really, really, really, really, really difficult. And unlikely.
1.) He would have had to know that you had a lab down here.
2.) And he would have had to know how to get around your wards.”
3.) “Plus intimate knowledge of the design to tinker with it like that,” I said.
4.) “To say nothing of the fact that he would have to know it existed at all, and no one does.”
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