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kbrizzle:
We know that Maggie was killed by an entropy curse right after she gave birth to Harry. We assume this was the doing of Lord Raith since Eb says so, & LR seems to be an avid user of entropy curses (throughout BR).

However there is one other baddie who uses entropy curses - Nicodemus. In DM, he uses the Barabbas curse on Harry & Susan as they drive back from gala where Marcone is supposed to pick up the Shroud from the Churchmice. We are told that Nic gets to use the Barabbas curse every so often (annually?) to kill one person - the Knights can choose to take the place of this person, as Shiro ends up doing in BR. We also know that Nic knew Maggie (and how many kids she had), & as shown in DM, SmF & SG, his preferred MO is to waylay the plans of others.

What if Nic chose Maggie for the Barabbas curse in order subordinate the plan in motion to birth a Starborn (his usual MO)?

Mr. Death:
I don't see how that's his MO at all. In DM, SmF, and SG, it's his plot that's in motion, not that he stumbled on someone else's plot and screwed with it.

Besides, from all appearances he liked Maggie.

So I just don't see it.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---I don't see how that's his MO at all. In DM, SmF, and SG, it's his plot that's in motion, not that he stumbled on someone else's plot and screwed with it.

Besides, from all appearances he liked Maggie.

So I just don't see it.
--- End quote ---

I agree. I doubt he would have killed Margaret. Malcolm, on the other hand...

kbrizzle:
I’m not saying I believe that Nic killed Margaret, or the other WAGs I propose in this post, but I do think this line of thought opens up interesting avenues.

The WAG
I think it’s possible that Nic killed Maggie since he is the only other mortal-ish baddie who has access to entropy curses (Barabbas curse), as well as a “corporate sponsor” (Lucifer) to juice it up when he needs to. Eb believes that Lord Raith killed Margaret, but he also believes that she threw her death curse.

Nic knows an awful lot about Harry & Maggie (& how many kids she had). Perhaps he was also invited to the dinner thrown by Maggie & Lord Raith a century ago (or spied on it). He figures out that Maggie has a plan to birth a Starborn - tracks her down & kills her so that Harry’s most powerful parent can’t protect him anymore.

He has no desire to raise a child (especially with a tongue), so he figures that he’ll just get to Harry as an adult when he can lie/reason with him (something Nic is very good at & has a lot of experience doing). Nic is the only other person apart from Mab/ Lea who goes to great lengths to recruit Harry rather than kill him, which they could both have easily done.

I’d argue that it’s not far from Nic’s usual MO of doing whatever he wants in the middle of other people’s plans.

For example:
In DM, Marcone pays the Churchmice to steal the Shroud, Nic intercepts it. Nic also intercepts Ursharavas’ prophecy to Harry. In SmF, Nic kidnaps Marcone, but then intercepts the arbiter (Ivy) before the parley.

So my point here is that Nic has a habit of doing something while the other parties don’t even know he’s involved till the last minute (Anduriel’s powers make this easier no doubt).

Side WAG
If the theory that Nic kidnapped Marcone specifically to get Ivy is true, the I also wouldn’t be surprised if he were involved in the death of Ivy’s grandmother (who died in a freak automobile accident, which sounds like an extremely powerful entropy curse to me) & mother (who committed suicide - maybe because a Fallen whispered something like 7 words in her ear?)  - all to make the Archive finally vulnerable to his control down the line.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---I’d argue that it’s not far from Nic’s usual MO of doing whatever he wants in the middle of other people’s plans.

For example:
In DM, Marcone pays the Churchmice to steal the Shroud, Nic intercepts it. Nic also intercepts Ursharavas’ prophecy to Harry. In SmF, Nic kidnaps Marcone, but then intercepts the arbiter (Ivy) before the parley.
--- End quote ---

None of your examples actually support your point here.

1) We have WoJ that Nicodemus was the one who hired the Churchmice originally--they just tried to double cross him and get more money.

2) Nicodemus intercepts the prophesy to prevent interference in his plan. It's got nothing to do with other people's plans.

3) Nicodemus kidnapped Marcone specifically to engineer an opportunity to kidnap the Archive--it's his plan, not him interfering in other people's plans.

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