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Who fixed Little Chicago?
Stiletto:
Could Mab get through the ward, the threshold, and have the knowledge and skill to tinker with complicated mortal magic? While treating Lea at the same time?
Do we have WoJ the Calvin and Hobbes book was “left” there for Harry to find? I assumed it was a sign of Harry’s lack of organization.
morriswalters:
Yeah, I like Mab for the deed. And Harry had a back door to fairy in his subbasement. Since Lea was playing and Ice princess Mab could have entered.
Having never read Calvin and Hobbes I had to research and turned up this. One is left to wonder, does Mab have a since of humor?
--- Quote ---Calvin often creates horrendous/dark humor scenes with his snowmen. He uses the snowman for social commentary, revenge, or pure enjoyment. Examples include Snowman Calvin being yelled at by Snowman Dad to shovel the snow; one snowman eating snow cones scooped out of a second snowman, who is lying on the ground with an ice-cream scoop in his back; a "snowman house of horror"; and snowmen representing the people he hates. "The ones I really hate are small, so they'll melt faster," he says. There was even an occasion on which Calvin accidentally brought a snowman to life and it made itself and a small army into "deranged mutant killer monster snow goons."
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peregrine:
--- Quote from: Stiletto on August 05, 2018, 01:36:57 AM ---Could Mab get through the ward, the threshold, and have the knowledge and skill to tinker with complicated mortal magic? While treating Lea at the same time?
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Yes, as seen by Cat Sith being able to enter past a threshold as long as he meant no harm to the occupants. She's got the skill to tinker with it, the only likely issue would be if, like Toot and languages, she has a more instinctual knowledge of magic that makes mortal magic on a different wavelength (like Bob and faith). As for Lea, possibly she could just put her on ice for a few moments.
--- Quote ---Do we have WoJ the Calvin and Hobbes book was “left” there for Harry to find? I assumed it was a sign of Harry’s lack of organization.
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We have no such thing, anything anyone says about it is pure speculation.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Stiletto on August 05, 2018, 01:36:57 AM ---Could Mab get through the ward, the threshold, and have the knowledge and skill to tinker with complicated mortal magic? While treating Lea at the same time?
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Easily. Lea has expended significant effort on making sure Harry's dwelling maps to her garden when making Ways between earth and the NN. Mab can just step through, inside the wards and the threshold, and do anything compatible with behaving as a good guest (which also explains why, if she was there, she didn't destroy Bob ... although I suspect she's more interested in keeping him scared enough to lay low and stay quiet about the immortality loophole than sincerely committed to destroying him).
And mortal magic is mostly similar to fae magic. The ability to teach him to be far better at it than he is was one of the perks she dangled in one of her earlier offers to try to recruit him for the Winter Knight. For that matter, she's probably far enough ahead of Harry to seamlessly disarm his wards and go in through the front door, if she wanted to.
Arjan:
Mab was Harry’s acting godmother with all Lea’s obligations.
Mab could enter Harry’s apartment as easily as the brownies who cleaned it as long as she behaved like a good guest.
Mortal magic and Sidhe magic don’t differ that much.
Motive, opportunity and means.
Oh and Calvin and hobs are clearly winter based. Winter wonderland based.
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