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AClone:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 21, 2020, 03:58:36 AM --- He most likely encouraged Susan to keep the child in the area, he plotted with the Red King to murder the innocent family she stayed with and kidnap the child.
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I find myself curious where this steady assumption of Susan keeping Maggie "in the area" has arisen from. The text specifically says that Maggie was with placed with a family "away from the fighting". The only indication of where that family may have actually been located would be assumptions based solely on their surname.
Which reminds me of how, in one book signing, someone put their foot in it by suggesting that Injun Joe might have been a suspect as being responsible for the naagloshi--because, after all, he's a Native American.
Jim...well, I'll politely say that he refuted that one emphatically. Canon said long ago that Injun Joe was an Illinois medicine man, and Jim pointed out just how far removed the tribes of the Southwest are from those of the Midwest. Matter of fact, he made a point of making a parallel of just how distant that relationship would be if we were talking in terms of European nations. I believe his reference was something like from Italy to Norway.
Saying that Maggie was "in the area" simply because the family she was with had a Hispanic surname is nothing but more of the same. And it didn't really matter where she was, because even if Maggie was in Alaska, after Martin tells them where she was, the exact same thing would have happened.
I've seen what appears to be a number of misapprehensions about Susan Rodriguez in this thread. Please pardon me as I get back on topic my next post.
AClone:
Back on topic...
I think that the reason Eb is nervous is because he's faced Cornerhounds before, and his magic hasn't worked very effectively against them. One of their attacks may well have haunted him as well.
The thing that gets me is how Jim chose to end the except with:
--- Quote ---The old man lifted his hand with a single sharp word, and a wall of pure arcane power blazed into light between us...
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Um...in the space between Ebenezar and Harry and the corner the Cornerhounds had appeared on? Or between Ebenezar and Harry? As if he's trying to protect Harry, leave him out of the fight?
The thing is, I've yet to see any indication that any of the good guys knows that Harry is a Starborn.
Martha Liberty mentions what Harry is destined for way back in...Summer Knight? In that case, I think she was referring to DuMorne's intention to shape him as an enforcer, something that Morgan echoes in his final note.
Rashid seems to know that Harry is destined to do something, but it's not certain that it's directly related to Harry being Starborn. Please feel free to remind me of any other references by good guys. Aside from Lash, I mean.
And yet all of the bad guys, down to irresponsible Maeve, seem to have gotten that memo. Quite emphatically.
So, it wouldn't surprise me to see Ebenezar struggle against the Cornerhounds--then be shocked when Harry deals with them. Jim using the encounter to bring the whispering "Starborn" thread out of the background and to the fore.
Just a thought.
Arjan:
The problem with wizards is that they don’t share information. So even if Marta or Rashid know about Harry being a star born that does not mean anybody else knows.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I find myself curious where this steady assumption of Susan keeping Maggie "in the area" has arisen from. The text specifically says that Maggie was with placed with a family "away from the fighting". The only indication of where that family may have actually been located would be assumptions based solely on their surname.
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No, Maggie also spoke only Spanish when Susan died. Also Susan went to see her from time to time, so little Maggie's location was no secret. You are right that it doesn't matter because Susan didn't do a "blind" adoption, meaning she'd have no clue where the child was. But she didn't do that
she kept in contact, and as far as that goes, what does "far from the fighting" mean to the Red Court, as we know, they are all over the world. So little Maggie was never safe, though to be fair, Susan wouldn't have any clue about the generational curse, but at the same time, naming little Maggie after her grandmother and visiting the child was a neon sign to Harry's enemies as well as her own.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: AClone on May 06, 2020, 11:20:57 PM --- Please feel free to remind me of any other references by good guys. Aside from Lash, I mean.
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Eb might know what Margret intended. The argument that tips off Arianna as to Harry's linage was probably related to that. Almost certainly Lea.
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