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Why didn’t Molly go to Eb or Listens to Wind as Harry suggested?
SerScot:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on November 03, 2021, 12:45:18 AM ---Harry preaches at her in Turn Coat about just this thing. Under pressure he asks her to do just what he told her she shouldn't do. This is the very reason she was under the Doom. If a friend or a mentor does that to you, do you trust them?Do a really deep dive into Ghost Story because this is exactly the point. The whole book is about the chickens coming home to roost for Harry's bad choices for Molly.
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I just finished a re-read of GS today. I do get your point. However, Molly has agency. She could, probably should have, refused Harry’s request. Why didn’t she attempt to take care of herself when Harry died?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: SerScot on November 03, 2021, 01:01:47 AM ---I just finished a re-read of GS today. I do get your point. However, Molly has agency. She could, probably should have, refused Harry’s request.
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Probably but her choice to trust and help her mentor was totally understandable. Harry got a push from the fallen but it was not like his choice was that strange for Harry either.
--- Quote ---Why didn’t she attempt to take care of herself when Harry died?
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She did. Maybe she could have done better but she was a warlock on the run and there was nothing she could have done about that.
She probably overestimated the effort the white council would put into it but that was understandable too and you want to err on the safe side in these situations.
morriswalters:
Mab states it in Cold Days when she tells Harry...
--- Quote ---“Did she choose to be born with her gift for the Art? Did she choose to become someone so sensitive that she can hardly remain in a crowded room? I did not do that to her—you did.”
Butcher, Jim. Cold Days (The Dresden Files, Book 14) (p. 511). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on November 03, 2021, 12:45:18 AM ---Harry preaches at her in Turn Coat about just this thing. Under pressure he asks her to do just what he told her she shouldn't do. This is the very reason she was under the Doom. If a friend or a mentor does that to you, do you trust them?
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Technically, his consent in asking for her to do the memory tampering for him makes all the difference.
But I don't find it odd in the slightest that she'd choose not to take her chances with beheading on the prospect that any of Harry's friends would either take her on without wanting a soulgaze before staking their own lives on her rehabilitation, would not notice her feelings of guilt and shame in said soulgaze, or would accept what she'd done once they figured out the specifics. What she did doesn't have to be illegal in and of itself to kill her, it just has to anger or horrify the people she would be asking to intercede in the suspended death sentence she was already under and cause them to turn their backs on her.
On top of that, Lea had plans to train Molly in her own direction. It's highly likely she would have been advising Molly of every reason not to go to the Council that she didn't think of on her own. Lea might even have been actively disrupting any any council allies who looked for her with the intent to step in for Harry - she could rationalize that as protecting Molly from them finding out what she did and turning on her for it.
Arjan:
Even worse. Going to Eb or Listen to Wind was never a suggestion to be taken seriously. Even trying to find them was too dangerous. It is not that she could just visit Edinburgh or knew where they lived.
Harry also did not contact them to ask what was possible in case he died.
The whole suggestion was much like what Nicodemus said to his daughter before he killed her. It was empty words to make Molly and Harry go through with it.
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