The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Proven Guilty and my personal canon.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I don't think Lea's bargain obligated her to save Harry from his own error blowing up in his face. Mab is a good candidate for having done the fix, but I suspect her reasoning was to preserve an asset she had future use for, rather than to cover any obligation of Lea's.
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Have we even established that it was an error on Harry's part? It's been a while, but I don't seem to remember Harry saying it was an error on his part that broke Little Chicago. Little Chicago was about details down to the last tree branch for it to work, which at the same time may have been it's greatest flaw. A city is a dynamic place buildings are torn down,built, and altered on a daily basis. Streets get torn up or get pot holes, trees fall down and are planted. If not duplicated in the modal of Little Chicago, then the magic that goes with it has also got to be altered.. So what if no one "broke" Little Chicago? Then even Toot, who with his buddies covers a lot of area, may have spotted something new in the landscape and with help was able to fix the "error."
morriswalters:
The problem is presented by in the denouement. How did anyone know of the existence of LC and who knew it well enough to know it was broken and so how to fix it? Only one character would have known by default. Lasciel's Shadow. Mab would have known how to get in but how could she know that it was there and broken?
Bob says something strange.
--- Quote ---“It didn’t fix itself,” Bob said. “When I looked at it a few nights ago, the flawed section was in plain sight, even if I didn’t recognize it at the time. When I looked again tonight, it was different. Someone changed it.”
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If he recognized it was wrong after the fact why didn't he recognize it before?
Why was Michael moved out of town? And by that I mean, what was Uriel reacting to? Molly made use of her free will so Uriel couldn't balance that. Who interfered in such a way so that Uriel could act? If the error in LC were natural rather than a contrivance of an enemy then why could Uriel act? And what enemy could have provoked him to balance the scales?
vincentric:
Do we know if Harry's housekeeping brownies were Summer or Winter Fae? If they were Winter, then I'd say Mab fixed LC as part of Lea's godmothering. Since Lea watched Harry's place foe enemies, it would have been simple for her to enter a a benign fae while Harry and Bob were out just like the cleaners do. Mab did the same while covering for Lea and spotted and fixed the flaw .
Mira:
--- Quote ---If he recognized it was wrong after the fact why didn't he recognize it before?
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Or as is his way, Harry is beating himself up for something that might not have been his fault. When he looked at it before it was okay, he didn't recognize it because at that point it was okay. If someone was screwing with him, and Mab could be that someone, or even Uriel, since the whole point of this apparently was ultimately to save Harry from his clash with the Merlin later. Uriel would have the power to have Little Chicago look normal when Harry looked at it, then cause the flaw that made it fail, then fix it again.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: vincentric on August 30, 2022, 09:25:55 PM ---Do we know if Harry's housekeeping brownies were Summer or Winter Fae? If they were Winter, then I'd say Mab fixed LC as part of Lea's godmothering. Since Lea watched Harry's place foe enemies, it would have been simple for her to enter a a benign fae while Harry and Bob were out just like the cleaners do. Mab did the same while covering for Lea and spotted and fixed the flaw .
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The brownies were Summer - a boon from Lily for saving her at the end of Summer Knight.
Lea and Mab are equally free to walk right into his home as benevolent visitors too, though.
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