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Morgan's Journal Revisited
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 27, 2020, 12:36:40 AM ---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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Well, yeah, Harry is a star born.. Question is who disappeared him for the six years between Malcolm's death and his adoption by Justin? And why was he disappeared? Since Harry was in the foster care system there should have been records. Yes, these things are kept confidential but still it shouldn't be beyond the skill of a nosy wizard to find and track down. You ever get the feeling that Morgan was never the brightest penny in the sack? Loyal? Yes. Duty bound? Yes. But clever? Not so much.. Maybe that is what made him a good executioner? He never asked questions.
Just a thought, but if Harry was marked from birth, perhaps Morgan was referring to someone else also marked from birth.. If Harry is the star born, maybe Elaine is the one marked as an Adversary?
--- Quote ---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.
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Unless you take Chauncy at his word, he claimed that Malcolm as well as Margaret were murdered.. Harry couldn't get any further with that without giving up another one of his names.
vultur:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 27, 2020, 03:51:07 AM ---You ever get the feeling that Morgan was never the brightest penny in the sack?
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Yeah, he certainly seemed that way. TC and this piece give him more depth than what Harry originally saw, but some of his actions still seem pretty questionable at the very least (especially in Summer Knight).
--- Quote --- Unless you take Chauncy at his word, he claimed that Malcolm as well as Margaret were murdered.. Harry couldn't get any further with that without giving up another one of his names.
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Oh, I agree Malcolm's death wasn't natural; what I meant is that it looked natural (superficially), and Morgan only thought it wasn't because so many other things were going on around Harry (i.e. not because the cause of death was itself obviously unnatural).
That's why Morgan couldn't really be sure.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Oh, I agree Malcolm's death wasn't natural; what I meant is that it looked natural (superficially), and Morgan only thought it wasn't because so many other things were going on around Harry (i.e. not because the cause of death was itself obviously unnatural).
That's why Morgan couldn't really be sure.
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And yet when Malcolm and Margaret's six year old child completely disappears from the radar screen, Morgan fails to investigate the death that led to that disappearance? The first step in finding out what happened to the child is figuring out who or what was behind the death of the father.
Then when Harry does surface again, up until he himself became a suspect, Morgan busied himself trying to take Harry out at every turn because he had bought into the theory that the Enemy had gotten to him at some point. It was only when the finger was pointed at him and he was at the point of death does he admit he might have been paranoid and perhaps wronged a good man.
As I said, Morgan was good at what he did as far as that went, but he was never the brightest penny. So it was easy to manipulate him to bird dog Harry in the hope maybe that he'd succeed especially while Harry was under the Doom to lop his head off and never ask questions. No, there are some big cats at work in the life of Harry Dresden, Morgan was a less than effective paw in keeping that mouse in check.
So who were/are the big cats? The Winter Court? The Black Court? The Senior Council of the White Court? Eb? Outsiders? Someone wanted to prevent this star child from maturing.. Could the same be said of Elaine? We know nothing of her background.
Someone didn't want Harry observed when he was a very young child until his talent showed. That finger points to Eb, by his own admission in Peace Talks. However does Eb have that kind of power to wipe Harry from official records? Maybe, but how is it he failed so badly when Harry's talent did surface to prevent a evil man like Justin to get a hold of him for his own gains? Who helped Justin to locate not just Harry, but Elaine as well? Do we really believe they were there only children of talent that surfaced in the foster care system? Why did he chose them especially?
BrainFireBob:
I rather think Morgan was underestimated.
Morgan was seen as a shotgun, or attack dog- dangerous at KABOOM magic, but not a free-thinking individual. People forgot he had his own mind.
Morgan might be the White Council's public executioner- Eb, of course, being their assassin- but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a moral code.
I rather think this, combined with Turn Coat, points to someone trying to setup Morgan to execute Harry without understanding that Morgan's rigidity wasn't mental, it was moral- he would literally be damned before betraying his principles and loyalties. Morgan was the one ultimately responsible for the Doom being revoked. At the end, he concluded Harry was no warlock but was stupidly reckless at times (which Harry would probably concede)- which means instead of it being a settled question in his mind (as we were given the impression) it was a question he was still personally considering. Morgan let them down by not being what is called in DnD a "murder hobo."
Which points to whoever the enemy is in the White Council, they don't have a lot of experience with/exposure to the Wardens, or they'd not have under-rated Morgan that way. That's the clear takeaway to me. That, or their exposure to the Wardens predates Morgan being a prominent personality. What I can't decide is if this makes Langtry more or less likely to be Black Council. I lean toward less, and that Langtry is the pillar on Harry's "side" on a larger scale than Harry is aware of- with Harry and Langtry both finding this out with corresponding angst later. Phrased differently: Langtry is the "real" problem for the Black Council, and Harry keeps coming out of his self-imposed hermitage (in WC terms) to interfere and generally be in the way.
Regarding Morgan himself: I rather think he was more clever than people realized, but that he was on a mushroom diet. I can see his report on the Naagloshii being "Encountered Naagloshii. Will not be a further problem for the Council" with no words about how, what, why, or that he actually killed the thing.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 27, 2020, 01:14:06 PM ---Morgan busied himself trying to take Harry out at every turn ...
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Did he? That's certainly Harry's perception, but he's an unreliable narrator. Look at what Morgan actually does? He pokes and prods and goads Harry to see if he can get him to start fight using his magic in anger.
It's a test. Morgan soulgazed Harry and knows that his first-law violation (killing Justin) gave him a magical anger management problem. If Harry isn't careful about it, his anger problem will grow and he really will be a warlock. And Morgan means to be there when it happens, because he's seen what happens next and he'll blame himself for all the victims he couldn't save.
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