The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Proven Guilty and my personal canon.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 31, 2022, 02:13:33 PM ---All cities change on a daily basis, so no map can or does try to keep up. Entropy happens. LC would be useless if it was that important. Butcher made a narrative decision to have the device be broken. It's when he makes the reveal that is most important IMHO. The story is over and he's recapping and explaining as part of the denouement. Why tell us then, when it no longer makes any difference?
And can someone explain to me Lasciels's purpose in the plot? She doesn't do anything useful, at least on the surface. Does Butcher think we forgot about her?
She jump scares Harry in the car just before he is hit.
She throws a hissy fit when he uses LC.
She talks to him in the church.
Use the threshold the way Butcher does. He uses it to nerf magic. If he wants a character in then the threshold lets them in. If he wants them out then they are out. And if the story demands it there is a workaround.
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She is there, she is a source of information, more so than Bob, more importantly, and it is easy to miss, she is becoming Lash. There is one line, one line only but could be the most significant line in the whole book in my opinion, has huge implications for the plot down the road in future books. Harry is in the chapel of St Mary's on page 288
--- Quote ---Lasciel's voice came to me, very quietly, and sounded odd. Sad. It is beautiful here.
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That,in my opinion was a turning point or the signal of one, Lasciel is changing. Lasciel would never have made those observations, she was all about manipulating Harry to see things her way even as she was helping him. This was regret, an awakening of long lost memories of what it was like before her Fall. Lash was about to be born, not too long after that she begins to help Harry play music, even compose, something else she has never done since her fall, supposedly hadn't missed but forgotten how much pleasure she got from it.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 31, 2022, 02:56:09 PM ---She is there, she is a source of information, more so than Bob, more importantly, and it is easy to miss, she is becoming Lash.
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She also noticed hints that Molly was crushing on Harry at the time, which ends up being relevant.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 31, 2022, 02:56:09 PM ---She is there, she is a source of information, more so than Bob, more importantly, and it is easy to miss, she is becoming Lash.
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I wish you would point me towards any information Lash gave Harry in Proven Guilty. It eludes me. In point of fact.
--- Quote ---There was nothing I could do to prevent Lasciel from seeing and hearing everything I did, or from rummaging randomly in my memories, but I had learned that I could at least veil my active thoughts from her. I did so constantly, in order to prevent her from learning too much, too quickly.
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Sounds kinda one way to me. But for me this answers the question, who could have known. I won't quote the second instance but it answers the question, how could LC been damaged. Bob couldn't see it because he had been told not to. Lash took Harry's body for a little walk. When Bob tells Harry about it here is what the conversation looks like.
--- Quote ---I looked again tonight, it was different. Someone changed it.”
“In my lab? Under my house? Which is behind my wards? That’s impossible.”
“No it isn’t,” Bob said. “Just really, really, really, really, really, really difficult. And unlikely. He would have had to know that you had a lab down here. And he would have had to know how to get around your wards.”
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This is interesting. If it were sabotaged, the person doing so would have to have as much information as the person who fixed it.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I wish you would point me towards any information Lash gave Harry in Proven Guilty. It eludes me. In point of fact.
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Perhaps because it isn't about any information Lasciel gave or didn't give Harry, it is the first concrete evidence that Lasciel is changing into Lash. It is easy to miss as I said, but it is there.
morriswalters:
I missed one event. Lash helped Harry escape from the Fool Moon Garage.
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