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Another bit of possible foreshadowing
wardenferry419:
Nice quote. I like it.
morriswalters:
I agree, yet forumghost rightly could cite this.
Vadderung to Dresden in Cold Days
--- Quote ---"Wizard...you have been dead and returned. It has marked you."
--- End quote ---
And why I mark everyone as unreliable narrators. A thing which I believe that JB has done purposely. He's all over the place.
A couple of questions. If Maeve and Sarissa were Mab's daughters, who was the father? And if they were in fact her children could there be another little Harry or Harrietta crawling around somewhere at Arctis Tor?
Is Gatekeeper the first mortal Gatekeeper? And if he is, is Mac a fey and perhaps the previous Watcher at the gate. Which would make him who? If I can believe what I've read, the gate might predate wizardry.
peregrine:
Maeve and Sarissa's dad was a composer in the 1600s or so, give or take. Austrian I think.
As for Mab getting a baby off of Harry, I doubt it, just because Jim's gone to that well once already.
forumghost:
TBH this is probably the most important one:
--- Quote ---"Told me . . . I was dead," I muttered.
"Dead is a grey word," Mab hissed. "Mortals fear it, and so they wish it to be black—and they have but few words to contain its reality. It escapes from such constraints. Death is a spectrum, not a line. And you, my knight, had not yet vanished into the utter darkness."
--- End quote ---
Everyone else that's quoted this line here seems to have missed the most relevant half of it. People are too determined that "He came back, so he wasn't really dead". They're doing exactly what Mab says here- trying to turn Death into a yes/no question rather then a gradient.
Harry was dead enough to be considered dead by gods, and spirits. Dead enough that his Soul was gone from his body and he only came back because multiple powerful entities were manually pumping his lungs and heart for 6 months. Dead enough that he very nearly caught the South Bound Train at the start of the Story. Dead enough that Mr Sunshine was able to offer him a Job in Ghost Chicago.
He was very dead. Just apparently not dead enough. Not unlike the Corpsetaker (Well, she didn't have anyone preserving her Body for her, so she was probably one or two shades more dead then Harry).
Mira:
--- Quote ---Everyone else that's quoted this line here seems to have missed the most relevant half of it. People are too determined that "He came back, so he wasn't really dead". They're doing exactly what Mab says here- trying to turn Death into a yes/no question rather then a gradient.
--- End quote ---
No, more Miracle Max.... Even Mab says beyond a certain point there is no coming back.. Harry never reached that point on the spectrum, close, but no cigar.. He was only mostly dead, but slightly alive, it is perfectly right to say he came back from the dead, but it is also right to say he was never all dead.
The plainest evidence that Harry was never totally dead and gone is what is explained to him when he wakes up, Mab explains how she, Alfred, and the parasite kept his body functions going while his soul did it's walk about... This means his body was alive, perhaps close to the threshold that one doesn't return from, but alive.. If he was all dead, all Mab could do was bury the body..
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