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Star Born (direct quotes compilation)
Mira:
--- Quote ---You are thinking the entire Earth, but what if it’s like a solar eclipse?, there is a path? where it plays over only part of the earth for an hour the witching hour), and Chicago was the only big city in the path this time (Romania last time for Drakul’s current body). If that can be plotted then it can be predicted, you merely need to time the birth for that specific hour in that pathway. Easy using time dilation of the Ways
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Timing birth for specific hour? How about minute and or second? None of that is as easy as it sounds even with all the modern ways of inducing labor... Does cesarean section count to get the moment of birth right?
Conspiracy Theorist:
Margaret had previously had a child, so she was not a first time mother, so a shorter labour was likely. Hitting a particular day would involve her using the ways temporal effects to get her due date to Halloween, most likely delaying labor, so she ‘overshoots’ her due date. From then she would need a doctor to induce labor, a little bit of Earth magic to squeeze the baby out with a focussed gravitational field (her father and her son both did that spell) and Bob’s your uncle. The child is Starborn as soon as it is independent of Margaret, and the entropy curse bites on Margaret and she uses her Death Curse on Raith.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on February 24, 2022, 11:27:09 PM ---Margaret had previously had a child, so she was not a first time mother, so a shorter labour was likely. Hitting a particular day would involve her using the ways temporal effects to get her due date to Halloween, most likely delaying labor, so she ‘overshoots’ her due date. From then she would need a doctor to induce labor, a little bit of Earth magic to squeeze the baby out with a focussed gravitational field (her father and her son both did that spell) and Bob’s your uncle. The child is Starborn as soon as it is independent of Margaret, and the entropy curse bites on Margaret and she uses her Death Curse on Raith.
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Just because her labor time might be shorter, that doesn't make the timing any easier. Here is another question, Raith managed to locate her for the entropy curse, was he trying to kill both mother and child? Apparently not, why?
vincentric:
He may not have known about Harry even existing at the time. Or you may have to do one person at a time with the curse.
Conspiracy Theorist:
I have a theory that Harry is largely immune to curses, entropy and death as well as prophecy and predestination, he has avoided all of them at one point or other. This may be because he is Starborn, but what about before he was born? If Harry could be protected postpartum by being made Starborn he would require some other immunity until he was born.
If so then as soon as he was independent of his mother any immunity he had which he shared with his mother in Utero was withdrawn from her. Perhaps Raith had been cycling up his favourite entropy curse on Margaret for some considerable time only for him to be thwarted. As it stands Margaret may have known. Her choosing Malcolm may have provoked this, a rejection Raith couldn’t countenance. This makes sense as she had her death curse already lined up so she obviously knew she was under magical attack.
The in utero immunity? The Leansidhe, the price? the first born female of her line, little Maggie. This why Lea is Harry’s godmother, he never would have been born otherwise, and why she had a continuing interest in him, she been waiting for him to have children. Maggie was conceived in Harry’s old apartment, which backed onto Leas garden in the NeverNever. Did Lea have a hand in that? Where did Harry actually get the unicorn hair rope? Lea herself is a muse, as much as a seductress as Lasciel, so not out of the question.
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