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WAG - Harry has never met Justin DuMorne. His Justin was Heinrich Kemmler.
exartiem:
There was a similar discussion a few years ago.
Here's my theory: Kemmler body-swaps with Justin just before the killing stroke (Justin is D-E-D dead...). K realizes that every time he pops up and tries a darkhallow, the WC shows up and kills him. So he modifies his plan.
He (Kemmler/Justin or KJ) seeks to find or create a Starborn. Either as a new, more powerful body that can fight off the wardens or as a disciple to fight the WC while he does a darkhallow. KJ finds Harry or conspires with Margaret to create one.
KJ has the skull. instructs the spirit to teach Harry but to NEVER reveal that he is Kemmler. The spirit knows that if it has to answer Harry's questions, there is the possibility it may accidentally reveal what it has been ordered not to. To prevent this, it creates a separate personality without access to any knowledge of Kemmler for dealing with Harry. Harry Names this personality Bob.
Harry has some special power with changing the nature of beings by Naming them (think Lash), add to this the original spirit doesn't have a Name. This leads to Bob becoming the dominant personality and eventually (on Harry's orders) amputating the original and all of it's proprietary knowledge.
This is when KJ's plan goes awry and has to fake his death again.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: exartiem on February 13, 2020, 10:34:23 PM ---KJ has the skull. instructs the spirit to teach Harry but to NEVER reveal that he is Kemmler.
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This could explain why Evil Bob in Death Masks says something along the lines of "I don't know what you'be done with the master."
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 30, 2020, 12:00:09 AM ---I vote Starborn as both a singular and a plural. Like deer. How did Justin have a Kung Fu grip on the idiot ball? As I see it, his mistake was not expecting Harry to skip school to check on Elaine. That's about it, unless you count not knowing how to program people through non-magical means.
We should keep in mind that Justin was "dirty" from the moment that he took Bob.
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I count the fact that he went to enthrall them at all as grabbing the Idiot Ball. It was totally stupid and unnecessary, a completely hamfisted approach to getting what he wanted out of a pair of teenagers. Justin has never been characterized as stupid or shortsighted. Enthralling Harry and Elaine is both, in my opinion.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 30, 2020, 12:00:09 AM --- ... We should keep in mind that Justin was "dirty" from the moment that he took Bob.
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Remember the skull wasn't "Bob" then.
I think secretly taking a magic-knowledge bank of the Evil Necromancer is pretty much a demonstration that Justin was already well-along the Darkside path.
Luccio described it as frightening, and said the Wardens "destroyed it, of course."
Departing from that "of course" wasn't DuMorne's first step down that path!
Bad Alias:
@Kindler: I disagree. Teenagers are difficult.
@g33k: My point is that he should be categorized as dirty from at least that point. It's not like we know of a single thing he did before that. (He wardened and likely associated with Margaret).
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