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Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 13, 2020, 11:35:29 PM ---Morgan arrived 10 hours after Harry went into the foster care system. I don't expect Morgan to go into the details of the system of care for orphans, so I'm assuming he just means from the custody of first responders to the child care system. I imagine that could easily take a couple of hours. Justin wasn't a foster father. He adopted Harry. Foster care is generally considered temporary. Adoption is permanent.
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Since Harry was only about six years of age when Malcolm died.. Traumatic for a small child to wake up and discover his daddy cannot, the police I imagine would have arrived first, then the ambulance, he would have been given a teddy bear and handed immediately to child services. There may have been some attempt to locate immediate family, but there were no emergency contacts for little Harry, so he'd go pretty rapidly into foster care. While Justin didn't have contact, there was a "nice
lady" who did, and that was Lea. She'd have the power to wall Harry off, but why?
The thought just came to me that since he was a star child, Lea knew that there were enemy forces out to get him, so she kept him hidden. However it would be hard to hide the fact when his powers began to awaken. Why she let Justin have him is anyone's guess, but even she isn't immune to making mistakes. I doubt she was on Justin's side or knew fully of his intentions otherwise she wouldn't have helped Harry get ready to kill him.
Con:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 14, 2020, 05:20:12 AM ---While Justin didn't have contact, there was a "nice
lady" who did, and that was Lea. She'd have the power to wall Harry off, but why?
The thought just came to me that since he was a star child, Lea knew that there were enemy forces out to get him, so she kept him hidden. However it would be hard to hide the fact when his powers began to awaken. Why she let Justin have him is anyone's guess, but even she isn't immune to making mistakes. I doubt she was on Justin's side or knew fully of his intentions otherwise she wouldn't have helped Harry get ready to kill him.
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Lea thinks that Justin was a great teacher, using pain and emotional manipulation to forge him into a weapon. It's kind of her thing.
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---Lea knew that there were enemy forces out to get him, so she kept him hidden.
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Has anybody considered that Lea is enemy forces?
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 14, 2020, 01:40:50 PM ---Has anybody considered that Lea is enemy forces?
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I have, or I wrote about is a few years back, it was when I did my first reread. While yes, when
we first meet Lea it is seen though the lens of Harry's extreme paranoia about her, not helped by her
desire to turn him into one of her hounds to keep him "safe." Having said that, her ambition and thirst for power comes through which ends with her bargaining a Holy Sword for the Knife, which we now know is infected. The general theory is she was infected by the Knife and was later cured by Mab when she put her on ice. It was my opinion then that she might have been infected before she came in contact with the Knife. If she was, it would account for her being okay with Harry going to Justin for his training, then when Harry proved himself by escaping enthrallment, neutralizing HWWB, Justin could be discarded.... So she then supposedly helped Harry eliminate him, what she did was trick an inexperienced sixteen year old kid into a bargain. We find out later that she did little to aid Harry except perhaps a "confidence boost" as Jim puts it, but it makes Harry obligated to her with the hope of later making use of him. All this plays into the Enemy's hands, except Mab had other plans.
noblehunter:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 14, 2020, 02:17:37 PM --- I have, or I wrote about is a few years back, it was when I did my first reread. While yes, when
we first meet Lea it is seen though the lens of Harry's extreme paranoia about her, not helped by her
desire to turn him into one of her hounds to keep him "safe." Having said that, her ambition and thirst for power comes through which ends with her bargaining a Holy Sword for the Knife, which we now know is infected. The general theory is she was infected by the Knife and was later cured by Mab when she put her on ice. It was my opinion then that she might have been infected before she came in contact with the Knife. If she was, it would account for her being okay with Harry going to Justin for his training, then when Harry proved himself by escaping enthrallment, neutralizing HWWB, Justin could be discarded.... So she then supposedly helped Harry eliminate him, what she did was trick an inexperienced sixteen year old kid into a bargain. We find out later that she did little to aid Harry except perhaps a "confidence boost" as Jim puts it, but it makes Harry obligated to her with the hope of later making use of him. All this plays into the Enemy's hands, except Mab had other plans.
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Lea did have the fairy godmother bargain running at the time which complicates her relationship to Harry.
What's clear from the journal though is that whoever killed Malcom wanted Harry to go into the system. Disappearing someone from the bureaucracy in less than a day is way more work than faking an identity long enough to kidnap a kid with no relatives. Harder to maintain, too, since foster parents/orphanage staff complain if they've got an extra kid so you'd need to create a cover identity that holds well enough so no one asks why Harry's name on the paperwork is different. To my mind, that strengthens Justin's place at the top of the short list.
Other people on the short list: Mab and The White King. Nic and Cowl would be on there but they didn't seem to show any particular familiarity with Harry. Both seem the type to drop cryptic hints while gloating.
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