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Morgan's Journal Revisited
Mira:
I decided to reread the micro fiction story that are literally Morgan's last words, or rather a last message. Now we know what his dying words were to Harry, that he more or less regretted what he had put him through the last few years.
Anyway, the first thing he says is he hadn't written in his journal in decades, or since he was in his seventies. However as he is bleeding out he feels he has to get his thoughts about Harry on paper, on the record for Luccio or whoever to read.
1] He makes a promise to Margaret to protect Harry. When and why did he make this promise? Had
he been in on the star born bit from the beginning? Or was he just making a promise to a dear friend to keep her child safe?
Then the next paragraph or so gets interesting;
--- Quote ---
I tracked him and his father until the time of Malcolm’s death. To this day, I’m not sure who killed him. I suppose it’s possible that Malcolm’s death was natural, but given this child’s ongoing misfortune it seems clear to me that he has been marked with an Adversary from the moment of his birth.
Malcolm died while I was on mission elsewhere. I arrived less than ten hours after the child went into the foster care system, and someone made him vanish. Magically, physically, bureaucratically. There was no trace of him, and I searched for years.
That bastard Justin DuMorne got to him before I could.
--- End quote ---
Malcolm was marked with a Adversary? Not by, but with, a Adversary. Just a type O?
If it was a type O then Malcolm was marked for murder by the Adversary. But if it wasn't a type O
it implies that Malcolm was working with an Adversary, and thus marked for death along with someone else. Holy crap, we've always been told that Malcolm was an extraordinary good man, "as good a soul, as any I've ever seen." said Eb. Then Morgan more or less blows his death off, "I suppose it could have been natural." But given what he just said, you would have thought he'd have looked into Malcolm's death a little more closely. Or at least shared this info with Harry, so he'd look into it. I know many here have wondered why Harry never looked into his father's death, but except for the hint from Chauncy that it was otherwise, he thought it was natural. At least it could have been grist for the wheel, because it is pretty important if Malcolm was indeed working with an Adversary.
Timing is everything, who arranged for Morgan to be away on a mission when Malcolm died, and young Harry dropped off the radar screen? Morgan says he arrived on scene less then ten hours later and Harry had already disappeared. Really? No records anywhere of what happened to six year old Harry? What is weird about that is as a Warden of the White Council, you'd think that Morgan would know some pull to get access to those records. Someone on the Senior Council or even Luccio would have political connections of that kind.
So who could have pulled off that kind of erasure? We know that someone else who had promised Margaret to keep her baby safe, Lea, visited Harry from time to time when he was in the orphanage.
She knew of Margaret's mistrust of the Council, so perhaps thought it best that no one connected with them knew of Harry's whereabouts. Under this veil we know from Harry himself, except for being very unhappy as the odd kid out, until he was adopted when he talent appeared his next six years in state custody was pretty ordinary. As in, none of the Nemesis type influence that Morgan feared. So perhaps Lea was successful there, but then she failed and somehow Justin managed to track and get his mitts on Harry.. Unless Justin was the Adversary that was working with Malcolm, murdered Malcolm, then managed to keep track of Harry in spite of Lea's best efforts. Another
possibility is Eb is the one that "disappeared" young Harry in the system. He sort of confessed or used the excuse that it was best that Harry not be brought up by him given what he is. But if that was his plan, he failed big time because in the end Justin did get a hold of Harry to use him for his own purpose.
When Harry kills Justin finally in a duel, that Morgan is a bit doubtful about, the assumption is Harry is infected or is still being used by the Enemy. Though Morgan admits that the Enemy is with in the Council itself and set him up and he has no choice but to run to Harry for help. We know how that story went.
He closes with;
--- Quote ---Perhaps I have been too hard on him. Perhaps I really have become paranoid and mad. Perhaps I have wronged a good man. But there is too much at stake to take that chance. The thought of allowing a Destroyer to be birthed among us when I could have stopped it is too heavy to bear.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, Morgan was paranoid, and because he failed to look into the circumstances surrounding Malcolm's death, he did hound and wrong a good man.
morriswalters:
Subject and predicate.
--- Quote ---but given this child’s ongoing misfortune it seems clear to me that he has been marked with an Adversary from the moment of his birth.
--- End quote ---
The phrasing could have been made clearer but it is what it is. And of course the Adversary in this case is HWWB. This is established in Storm Front.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 26, 2020, 07:12:26 PM ---Subject and predicate. The phrasing could have been made clearer but it is what it is. And of course the Adversary in this case is HWWB. This is established in Storm Front.
--- End quote ---
The phrasing is ambiguous at best, I suppose it’s possible that Malcolm’s death was natural, but given this child’s ongoing misfortune it seems clear to me that he has been marked with an Adversary from the moment of his birth.
vultur:
Yeah, I think the implication is that Morgan thinks that Malcolm's death is the result of Harry being "marked with an Adversary".
IE, there's nothing obviously unnatural about Malcolm's death by itself, but all the other things going on around Harry automatically makes it suspicious.
At least that's how I read it.
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I'm not really sure exactly what "marked with an Adversary" means. I don't think it was HWWBehind, since Harry was marked by HWWBehind in their encounter when Justin summoned him - so not "from the moment of his birth".
And 'an Adversary', capitalized, is also interesting. Is there more than one Nemesis? Or does Morgan mean Nemesis as one of several agents of the Circle/Outside/whatever? Or something else?
morriswalters:
Who knows what Jim is up to. But Harry was marked for something prior to conception. Jim's been banging the drum on this since the series started. That's the whole point of the Morgan microfiction. Harry was bred like a horse.
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