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Raising a human child vs raising a spirit of intellect

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Mira:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on December 22, 2020, 12:52:12 PM ---A parent can listen to advice but in the end they have to raise the child.  So if Harry values a certain outlook he won't let anyone else  have a voice, period.  And if he follows how he was with Bob, he will limit who can interact, or who Bonea is revealed to.

In terms of why Bonea at all, there is the obvious answer.  He wants a talking head without Bob's limits.  Bob can know what any human who has interacted with him knows.  Bonea has the memories of a Fallen Angel.  So if Harry needs to know something, Bonea can know it.  I'll give you a possible example.  Bonea could be the one who fixed Little Chicago. She can do it because it doesn't break causality.

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Harry does have to limit who Bonea can interact with.  For starters no one knows at the moment what the rules are concerning her.  In Bob's case it appears that whoever holds his skull gets to use him for his or her purpose, benign for the most part when Harry and Butters have the skull, but totally evil and dangerous when Kemmler and Justin had it.  In fact Bob's total personality changed depending on who held his skull.  Second of all, we learned from Luccio back in Small Favor that if the Wardens/White Council were able to find Bob, they'd destroy him because among other things
they fear what he knows and how he could be misused. Why would they see Bonea as different?  Thirdly, Bonea is still a very young and innocent child, it is easy to confuse knowledge with experience..  An example of that is Bonea has 150 pancake recipes in her head, knowledge, but no clue as to how to make them because she has so little real experience at her young age..  She thinks because milk ripples when poured it is alive.  Bonea, daughter of Lasciel might know it isn't, but very young Bonea the daughter of Harry, doesn't.

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