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The value of Harry's debt is punching above its weight in Summer Knight

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Bad Alias:
I don't really understand how that would have worked. If Mab acquires Harry's debt to Lea, doesn't she have to give Lea something? Wouldn't an imbalance remain?

Eguzky:
Maybe Lea owed Mab, for failing her duties by getting corrupted?
Or maybe Lea owed Mab because Mab was healing her, and thus Harry's debt was to pay for services rendered (the being cured of Nemesis)

Bad Alias:
Mab had not yet found out that Lea was corrupted.


--- Quote ---I returned to Faerie with great power and upset vital balances. Those balances had to be redressed, your debt was the mechanism that the Queen chose to employ.
--- End quote ---

From the quote and the text around it, it is unclear even if an exchange took place. If there was a debt used as the purchase price for Harry's debt, then the balance would still remain the same. Perhaps the debt was more valuable in the hands of Mab than the Leanansidhe because of some limitation she had based on her bargain with Margaret.

kbrizzle:
I was under the impression that it was the Athame that Mab did not want Lea to have - she has probably known about Harry’s debt for decades... I believe this was the point of gifting the Nfected dagger to Lea - she would be forced to give it/ trade it to Mab as a way to maintain the Winter power hierarchy.

However, 2 things ruined this plan:

* Lea as a Winter Fae is power-hungry by nature. She had her own designs for the athame (to end that which stalks us all) & tried to hold on as long as possible
* Mab realizes after the unusual death of Ronald Reuel that a BC plan is afoot but her WK will be useless in doing anything, so she realizes that Harry’s debt is currently more useful to her than the athame

dspringer1:
I think the actual events are different than Hankthemoose described.   Based on what was described Dead Beat, Lea challenged Mab in some way.   Mab stated that Lea thought the atheme gave her that right and she showed her the error of her ways.   

We know from later books that this is when Mab realized lea was infected.  We also learn that the challenge was related to Harry - specifically Lea was desperate to help Harry against the necromancers in Dead Beat.  That desperation was presumably what tipped Mab off about the infection as it is not typical of Fey.  But I cannot remember which books gave this info, but they were late stage books (cold days perhaps). 

I also believe that Mab was holding the Atheme during her meeting with Harry during Dead Beat, but I am a bit hazy on this.  If correct, then Mab had already taken the Atheme from Lea and cleansed it.   Certainly Lea was aware that the athemea was how she was infected and holds a grudge -- which she explained to harry to justify Mab using her to help him during Changes.   Mab was doing a favor for Lea to allow her to get her revenge on the red court - otherwise lea's services would have been much more expensive to Mab. 

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