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Lara and Harry sitting in a tree.......?
KurtinStGeorge:
So, after one year Lara figures out how to get rid of Harry's true love protection. She probably figures out how to do this within a week after the events in Battle Ground, but for a variety of reasons; that aren't important to this post, she can't implement her plan immediately. However, it was quite clear in Peace Talks that Harry and Lara like each other. I mean they like each other beyond simply admiring each others abilities and beyond Lara's White Court mojo to influence Harry. Mab told Harry that he has a year to accept the union and many things can happen in a year.
Just before the wedding an event; or series of events, created by (fill in the blank bad guy), push Harry and Lara to their limits. They both end up selflessly risking their lives for each other and both somehow survive. After this, Lara's plan succeeds and Harry is no longer protected by Murphy's love, but on their wedding night she is still burned when touching Harry because Harry and Lara truly love each other.
It's exactly the kind of thing Jim would do. Harry remains sexually frustrated. Lara can't afford to let anyone in the White Court know that she can't feed on Harry. Harry's closest friends, allies and enemies; plus the White Council, will be absolutely convinced that Harry is completely under Lara's control. On top of that, to protect Lara from a potential White Court revolt, Harry would play along that Lara controls him; at least while other White Court vamps are around.
Now I know there is the three-way solution that Justine and Thomas used and I suppose that could work for Lara and Harry, but knowing Harry something would go wrong with that plan.
forumghost:
As hilarious as watching Lara panic because loving someone is a level of weakness she would never afford herself and watching Harry angst because "what kind of monster am I to love/be loved by someone like Lara"...
I really don't know that it works with the characters as they are. Both are a little to jaded, and there are parts of Lara that I genuinely don't think Harry could ever accept. She's a pretty human monster, but she's still a monster.
Conspiracy Theorist:
And there are parts of Harry capable of being a monster.
For Rudy his nightmares wear the face of Harry Dresden.
g33k:
--- Quote from: ApollonianAcolyte on May 05, 2022, 05:02:44 PM --- “I mean, if he’s married to another, it can’t really be pure love. Jenny’s claim on him would prevent the kiss from lifting the spell.”
One could argue, based on this, that Harry marrying Lara would similarly annul his protection from Murphy. And conveniently, there's a wedding coming up. Now Jenny is a Sidhe not a Vamp, so it might not be valid to analogise these scenarios. But it is definitely suggestive.
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I think the rules are different for the fae than for the whamps.
For the whamps, it's a physical law (or metaphysical I guess!), a plain simple fact of their biology... or bio-energetics... or magical biology... or something like that...
For the fae it's much more about the specifics of any deals and about the letter of the law... specifically, marriage contracts, the oath ("I take thee to be my lawfully wedded wife... forsaking all others...") &c. An oath like that is enough for a faerie to drive a faerie-law Crawler-Transporter through! (if you dunno the C-T, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChTY_VVOKc and check from 6second mark onward (for scale), where a shipping-container in the foreground enters the frame from the left side)
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 09, 2022, 08:03:31 PM --- I still don't think so, simply because both Lara and Thomas seemed to think that if she truly loved the guy she went off with there was an excellent chance that the Hunger would be burnt out. I don't think there would have been a chance if it had even gotten a taste.
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I think we are dealing with extreme/unusual corner-cases here... maybe even Jim hasn't considered all of these odd nooks and crannies of the Dresdenverse!
That said, I don't think a "taste" could have protected a White's Hunger-Demon from a first full feeding from a beloved; the Hunger would have died, burnt-out... but AFAIK there's no WoJ clarifying, and the DV canon doesn't speak clearly to this corner.
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