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Avernite:
Mirror Mirror was dimension travel, not time travel, from what I recall?

123Chikadee:
Since the WC is very techy about time magic, and for good reason, I'm wondering what would attract the cornerhounds as in, what is considered 'time-y' enough to get their attention. Is it enough to take a peak into the future, or do they need a full on paradox? Either way, they still need to be let in as opposed to just being able to bust in.

didymos:

--- Quote from: 123Chikadee on April 05, 2020, 08:10:37 AM ---Since the WC is very techy about time magic, and for good reason, I'm wondering what would attract the cornerhounds as in, what is considered 'time-y' enough to get their attention. Is it enough to take a peak into the future, or do they need a full on paradox? Either way, they still need to be let in as opposed to just being able to bust in.

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Your'e assuming they're just like the Hounds of Tindalos, rather than just inspired by them.  That's not a justified assumption. They may be summoned just like any other Outsider.

123Chikadee:
Well, I don't think we'll know either way just how closely inspired they are or not, at least not yet.
I'm wondering just how the WC defines the gray areas of the time travel laws. Maybe you have to have some sort of knowledge of time in order to help w/ the summoning of cornerhounds?

Yuillegan:
Didymos, you are correct. Although I would say that speculation is all we have anyway for that stuff, so it isn't entirely unreasonable to theorize what might attract the attention of a Cornerhound. But in general I agree, they get summoned like any other Outsider. As Harry tells us in that very scene, the purpose the Hounds have for being on Earth is a mortal one, as it takes a mortal to bring them here.

Curiously, they originally were meant to have a "special attack" (as Jim puts it) that destroyed or disrupted a victim's short term memory. But Jim couldn't make that work (he says) so he implies they won't do that anymore exactly. I took that initial ability to be evidence that they are similar to the Hounds of Tindalos, as a being that hunts or feeds off time travelers (or has to do with time) might disrupt a persons connection to the multiverse and indeed it's own time. But that's just my thinking on the mechanics and reasons why it might have initially had that ability.

123 - Assuming the Cornerhounds are like the Hounds of Tindalos, I would imagine it takes a significant act of time distortion/disruption. Otherwise every Wizard who lived long enough to get his/her Sight (as in the prophetic ability Wizards get as they age, which Harry learns about in Small Favor I think) would have Cornerhounds coming after them. I suspect it takes one to travel through time to even gain their notice.

Avernite - Technically it is both. Mirror Mirror is set in a parallel universe, that was the same as Dresden's but for a choice made towards the end of Grave Peril (which is hotly debated on this forum what that choice was, and when). Everything after that choice flows from the choice that the alternate timeline Harry made. So while I believe Harry visits a parallel universe, he also may engage in some time travel. It is also possible there is a WOJ that mentioned Harry will do some time travel in that book. But I can't remember where it is right now, if it exists.

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