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Chapter 4 Drop
Mira:
--- Quote ---idk how I feel about Chichen Itza in that regard - it hasn't really been mentioned much beyond the vague warning of What Harry Is Willing To Do. Harry missed a year and can't exactly watch the news, so we have no idea how thousands of dead bodies appearing at an international monument played out with the authorities. Somewhere in the Dresden world, there's a cult of conspiracy theorists salivating over the 2012 Mayan Calendar Apocalypse who think they just struck gold. I also vaguely remember the implication that the site would be cleaned up magically, but again, it's been a while and I might be making things up.
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Well, the White Council has a marvelous clean up crew.. Nothing was said after Sue went on her little rampage either.
wardenferry419:
I got a bad feeling about Eb's chances.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Vriah on June 26, 2020, 11:12:10 PM ---I feel like Maggie's citizenry is moot point anyway, since the only way Forthill could have gotten any kind of paperwork for her in a timely manner would have been to just forge the hell out of it. International adoption laws and citizenry laws are just way too complicated for it to take anything less than months to get Maggie greenlit in even the best of circumstances. Plus, assuming Susan's name is even on the birth certificate (assuming there is a birth certificate - we literally have no idea under what circumstances Maggie was born), her goal in putting Maggie with a family was to hide her - and a paper trail with her name on it would have completely defeated the purpose. The smartest choice Susan could make in that situation would have been to forge a birth certificate with the adoptive parents' names on it.
And to further complicate things (please correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I've read Changes), but wasn't Maggie's adoptive family violently murdered? And then the child missing from the murder scene shows up in the US a few days later with no records of crossing borders?
Forget social workers, all someone would have to do is shine a light on how Maggie even got to the US in the first place, and Harry would be under immediate investigation from the FBI, CIA, and any other agency that investigates international crimes - for murder, kidnapping, and human trafficking at the least.
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Point though it was never stated whether or not little Maggie was actually adopted by the family she lived with. So Susan's name could still be on it, since she went to go visit her from time to time, it shows while she was sort of careful, she wasn't all that careful. If she had wanted little Maggie to be totally safe she could have given her up at birth to an agency who could have placed her anywhere in the world where there are millions of childless couples waiting with loving arms for a baby. She
didn't, so for all we know the family Maggie lived with were no more than glorified baby sitters, thus a child missing after the murder might not even have been noticed.
123Chikadee:
@Knightedbishop: Thanks for the info! It's super informative. :)
I didn't mean for things to go down such a rabbit hole when I just wanted to use an example lol!
SerScot:
I was pleased to see Harry call out Eb for leaving him in an orphanage.
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