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Elaine's Necklace, Where Did It Come From?

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Mira:

   Continuing my Summer Knight reread, we get Harry's description of Elaine, and aside from the usual he mentions that she is wearing a pentacle necklace identical to his own...  We know or rather Harry believes that his pentacle came from his mother, that she wore it.  It is his main link to her through the first three books, he fingers it, he feels her when he fingers it..  It is very special, no where up through Skin Game is it mentioned that another wizard wears such a necklace, except for Elaine. 

So where did she get hers?  Did her mother give it to her?  Harry doesn't explain how she came to have an identical pentacle necklace to his own.  He doesn't say he gave it to her, indeed where would he get the money for it?  He doesn't say her mother gave hers to her.  He doesn't say that Justin gave it to her.   He implies that the necklace is a symbol of the bond between them.  However Elaine never indicates that her necklace holds as deep a meaning for her as his does for Harry.. So what is the deal here?

What if Harry had been lied to from the beginning?  While it may have come from his mother, it isn't a keepsake type of thing.  We know that supposedly there were two or we think two possible star borns, Harry and Elaine.  Harry is confirmed to be one, the jury is still out on Elaine.  What I am saying is suppose only star born baby candidates get the necklace?  Then while true that his mother left him his, she never wore it and it merely indicates his status as a possible star born, the same goes for Elaine.  In fact this may have been one of the ways Justin selected them out of the orphanages.   It stands to reason that Harry and Elaine wouldn't be the only two kids with talent among the hundreds of orphans who needed adopting...  If Justin knew about star born, he may also have known about the distinctive necklace only they wear. 

One more point,  once Harry is more or less confirmed to be a star born, he is gifted with the jewel to put in it with the road map of the Ways, why not before?     

Fcrate:
Interesting thought. I always assumed that they crafted one together while they were apprenticed to Justin to link them together.
As for being a sign of star born, I have no idea, but Harry's mother's jewel supposedly fit into the necklace, and she gave it to Lea to pass it on when Harry is in need of it/ready for the knowledge and won't get himself killed or lost in the Ways.

Regenbogen:
I have asked myself the same question, but forgot about it. Yes, that's weird. She has the same necklace as Harry.
Thomas and Harry have the same, too. Thomas even showed it to Harry in Blood Rites as a means to convince him that he is his brother.
So why does Elaine also have one?
And do other wizards have one, too? I mean, pentacles are quite common even among non wizards. And to be honest, they all look almost the same.
So what is so special about the three pentacle necklaces that it's worth mentioning several times that they are so similar?

Maybe it has something to do with the group Margaret got involved in. Perhaps they all had the same kind of pentacle necklaces to give new apprentices or their heirs. Why? Don't know. Tracking members? But maybe that's why Justin had one to give to Elaine. Margaret had given her spare one to her first child, Thomas. And her own necklace was inherited by Harry after her death.

Yuillegan:
Jim has said that the necklaces are significant because it shows that they both have ideals rooted in the same place. They think differently, but are on the same page.

I once proposed that they were actually related (like Luke and Leia) but admittedly it didn't go down well (too much ick).

Regenbogen:

--- Quote from: Yuillegan on October 08, 2019, 02:51:53 PM ---Jim has said that the necklaces are significant because it shows that they both have ideals rooted in the same place. They think differently, but are on the same page.

I once proposed that they were actually related (like Luke and Leia) but admittedly it didn't go down well (too much ick).

--- End quote ---

Them being related is a goid idea. Maybe not siblings, but distant cousins. Ebenezar is quite old. He could easily have fathered more than one child. There could be generations in between.

Do we actually know, who gave it to Elaine? Was it Justin or one of her unknown parents?

Or did Harry make one for her? That would change the meaning.

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