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kbrizzle:
So in Dead Beat, Bob says that Harry picked him from up the smoldering ruins of Justin’s house just as Justin had picked him up the ruins of Kemmler’s place. This means that Harry was ~16 years old when Bob became his.

Then Harry goes to the Council for trial & is sent to live with Ebenezer for a couple of years before striking out on his own. Where was Bob during this time? Did teenage Harry never tell the old man about Bob when he was recounting his time with Justin?

The way I see it, there are 3 possible answers:


* Harry takes Bob at age 16 from Justin’s place & buries him somewhere safe before he turns himself into the Council. Harry is aware that he should hide Bob from everybody & never mentions the skull, After his apprenticeship with Ebenezer ends, Harry digs Bob back up so even Ebenezer never knew that Harry got Bob.
* Ebenezer is aware of Bob - which is pretty chilling. Perhaps he asked his friend Simon about it, which is how Cowl knows Harry has it.
* Bob was being poetic with Harry about the smoldering ruins bit - 19 yr old Harry goes back to Justin’s burnt down house after his apprenticeship with Ebenezer ends & digs up Bob from a secret hiding place Justin had left the skull in so the wardens couldn’t find it.

Mira:

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Then Harry goes to the Council for trial & is sent to live with Ebenezer for a couple of years before striking out on his own. Where was Bob during this time? Did teenage Harry never tell the old man about Bob when he was recounting his time with Justin?

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  Most likely not..

KurtinStGeorge:
My guess is that Bob told Harry to hide him.  Bob would known what the Council would do to him if they found him.  He would have known that Justin's death would not go unnoticed by the Council.  His first priority would have been survival, so I guess that the first time they met, Bob would have told Harry that he needed to find a place to hide him, after first telling Harry how useful he could be.     

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on June 09, 2020, 08:49:40 PM ---My guess is that Bob told Harry to hide him.  Bob would known what the Council would do to him if they found him.  He would have known that Justin's death would not go unnoticed by the Council.  His first priority would have been survival, so I guess that the first time they met, Bob would have told Harry that he needed to find a place to hide him, after first telling Harry how useful he could be.   

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I believe there's a WOJ that Bob told Harry to hide / bury the skull, and he came back for it after leaving Eb.

Bob took an awful risk that they'd behead Harry anyway and he'd be left buried.

Yuillegan:
I always have thought that particular WOJ was misdirection. I think Jim is purposely not telling us the real story of what happened with Bob because it would give away too many reveals.

I think Bob was never lost. I also think that Harry has it backwards, Bob got Harry just like Mouse won Harry. He thinks he rescued/claimed Bob. But I think Bob was meant to keep an eye on him. I am not certain Ebenezar knows Bob other than what he has heard...although I think it is interesting that the Wardens are/were aware of Bob when he worked for Kemmler. It isn't like Kemmler would have been advertising that spirit. But just as Justin was likely corrupted (perhaps further) by the Bob he took from Kemmler's lab, I think Bob was meant to be the same thing for Harry. But it backfired a bit because Harry is so willful and changed much of what Bob is. I think Bob has been keeping certain things from Harry because he has been ordered to and despite changing owners he can't break his word.

But I could be wrong, as that is all speculation. A pretty easy theory is that Bob was buried and the Warden's "somehow" missed him. Maybe Harry buried him in the Nevernever like he did in Changes (I think. The place with the centipedes).

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