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Why did Bob never spot Bonnie growing?

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SerScot:
I’m re-reading and I’m on White Knight.  Bob notes that a portion of Harry’s soul is gone after Lash took the psychic for Harry.  Why didn’t Bob note Bonnie growing within Harry?  Seriously.  There were three years of Bob with Harry pre-Changes where Bob would have mentioned a spirit of knowledge growing within Harry’s skull. 

It’s strange Bob either didn’t notice, or didn’t mention it to Harry.

Mira:

--- Quote from: SerScot on September 23, 2021, 03:32:40 PM ---I’m re-reading and I’m on White Knight.  Bob notes that a portion of Harry’s soul is gone after Lash took the psychic for Harry.  Why didn’t Bob note Bonnie growing within Harry?  Seriously.  There were three years of Bob with Harry pre-Changes where Bob would have mentioned a spirit of knowledge growing within Harry’s skull. 

It’s strange Bob either didn’t notice, or didn’t mention it to Harry.

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1]  Harry says in Cold Days regarding Soul Fire that there are some things Bob doesn't know everything about and can in fact be wrong. If you will remember Bob wasn't a whole lot of help when it came to contact with a coin or with a shadow of one of the Fallen in Harry's head.  I doubt that there has been a hybrid shadow/host I.d. created before, successfully at any rate.
2] I cannot remember if Bob was ever able to successfully scan Harry for anything in the past.. Bob isn't a Cat-scan machine..

SerScot:
Bob scans Harry all the time commenting on missing part of his soul in WK and sharing his soul in SF.  Why wouldn’t he see Bonnie growing from Harry’s soul.

Second Aristh:
Wrong frequency search?  Bob is very magic based, whereas Lash is faith based.  Bonnie being difficult for him to spot, especially unprompted, seems reasonable.  Combined with a gradual growing period, maybe Harry wasn't "showing" yet and it go overlooked.

Mira:

--- Quote from: SerScot on September 23, 2021, 05:03:17 PM ---Bob scans Harry all the time commenting on missing part of his soul in WK and sharing his soul in SF.  Why wouldn’t he see Bonnie growing from Harry’s soul.

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Can Bob really see Harry's soul though?  He may see life force, but that isn't the same as your soul. He was also talking about soul fire, something he doesn't know that much about. How much of that was Bob going out on a limb about something he doesn't know that much about, and how much was an attempt to reassure Harry?

Here is what Harry said about what Bob knows on the subject of souls,and soul fire Cold Days page 317



--- Quote ---Bob is brilliant, but there are some things he just doesn't get.  His definition was a good place to get started, but it was also something that was too comfortably quantifiable.  The soul isn't something you can weigh and measure.  It's more than one thing.  Because soulfire interacts with souls in a way that I'm not sure anyone understands, it stands to reason that soulfire isn't one thing, either.
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Remember this insight came after Harry's soul did it's walk about in Ghost Story.  Harry at this point may know a little more on the subject than Bob.  So if Bob really doesn't understand souls or soulfire, he may not know such a union as happened is even possible.. And if you don't know something is possible, why would you look for it? If Bob didn't know, he simply wouldn't look in Harry's head for it.

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