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morriswalters:
There has always been disharmony between when Margaret left and when Harry was conceived. How did Lea know that she would get what she paid for? Nobody could predict that Harry would become a wizard.

Mira:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 20, 2022, 04:22:32 PM ---There has always been disharmony between when Margaret left and when Harry was conceived. How did Lea know that she would get what she paid for? Nobody could predict that Harry would become a wizard.

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 The impression I've always gotten is the Winter Court had a lot to do with Margaret's final decision to conceive a star born child.  Lea has dropped hints that it was the Winter Court's assurance of the baby's safety that was the final clincher.  I think Margaret knew once she left Lord Raith that she was doomed, whether or not she conceived a child. I doubt that Lord Raith took being dumped for a mere vanilla mortal very well.  As to whether or not the child would be born a wizard, odds were good, given Margaret's genetics, it is also possible that it's star born status would boost that chance.. But even if the child wasn't born a wizard, being a star born child ain't nothing, as they say.

As to why she didn't ask it for Malcolm's safety as well is a mystery.. It could be that it just wasn't possible.

g33k:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 20, 2022, 11:11:55 AM --- The one thing which would move Harry to murder is an attack on his family, the death of Malcolm or the loss of Maggie.
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I have one other theory:  I think that Molly was set up by Mab & Lea.

Michael -- as wielder of Amoracchius -- was very much "on their radar."  Doubly-so as a close friend & ally of Dresden.

That puts Molly on their radar, too.  And when she started showing talent, I think they moved in and began working on her.

Herewith, my WAG (in the form of questions) -- what if Lea began interacting with proto-wizard Molly, struggling-to-learn Molly, wanting-power (for all the "right" reasons, but...) Molly?  What if Lea directed Molly away from the safer and more-benign channels?  What if Lea set mind-magic and other Lawbreaking in Molly's path -- intentionally?

What if Molly turning to Black Magic was largely the work of the Leanansidhe???

Murderously-angry Harry, much?

Conspiracy Theorist:
Molly was not part of Margaret’s deal with Lea, at this point Michael and Charity had not even met.it therefore falls outside the WOJ.

Lea and Mab certainly were interested in Molly, but it’s Molly who initiated the forbidden  mind magic, which was immediately picked up by the Gatekeeper who we subsequently learn is actually an ally of Mab’s. The Gatekeeper informed Mab before Harry that she had the potential to be a back-up Winter Lady Candidate if she fell directly in Harry’s orbit, and Mab engineered much of the rest. In parallel to this was the attack on Arctis Tor which seems to have been undertaken to take advantage of the maneuvering between Mab and Titania to bring Molly to Arctis Tor, Mab needed plausible deniability so she and the majority of her forces were committed elsewhere so the Phobophages could go “on a frolic of their own”. Nameless and his allies are suspected of the attack, whether a secondary purpose was to try and flush him to try and rescue Lea/Nemesis is a point of debate. Mab needed plausible deniability because Molly was a potential wizard and therefore within the provenance of the White Council. Mab without this plausible deniability may have been in breach of her own accords. This is reasoning Nameless would understand and seek to exploit, and Mab would know this bait would work.

Remember Michael and his family were under the protection of the White God, another subsequently revealed ally of Mab’s and Michael does in fact turn up later to save Molly before the White Council, a definite collaboration between Uriel, Gatekeeper and Mab, suggesting the entire scenario was set up by them in the first place to get a good look at Molly and provide an excuse for Arctis Tor to be exposed which Nameless would swallow, forcing him to show his hand.

It’s how Mab operated in Skin Game, though by then Harry was a participant, rather than a dupe in that Scheme.

The practical effect was;-

1. Molly became Harry’s apprentice and on the road to being the Winter Lady
2. Nameless was flushed out as a confirmed traitor to the Winter Court
3. An unknown Denarian was shown to be working with  Nameless, which was confirmed by the attack.
4. No breach of the Accords pressed by the White Council against Winter.

Gatekeeper, Mab and Uriel gain under this scenario

morriswalters:
I doubt that nameless was a twinkle in Butcher's eye when PG was written. I don't think he was in the same universe even. I might buy stock in this if somebody can give a reason why Madrigal was there.

The timing is close but Lea is pretty much on ice when Molly comes into her magic. Certainly she's nemfected. So cooperation with Mab would seem to be a non starter.

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