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Maggie white council spy
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 26, 2022, 05:26:05 PM ---"Some" of it??!?
Most of it, I'd think!
Everyone's an unreliable narrator.
Each character will speak from their own perspective; and often, will say different things (or just "spin" things differently) depending on who they're speaking to.
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Thank you, that is what I was thinking, but wanted to hear you say it. However I disagree with the unreliable narrator part. Why? Because each one telling Harry what they knew of his mother came from his,her, or it's point of view, or the truth as far as they knew.. Unless of course they had a motive to lie to Harry. What Luccio said about her can be relied on from her and Council's view point, and can be relied on as their opinion..
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 26, 2022, 06:02:52 PM ---... What Luccio said about her can be relied on from her and Council's view point, and can be relied on as their opinion ...
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Not necessarily; Peabody was already tweaking Luccio's perspective, and she may have been trying to treat Harry extra-gently.
By proclivity, I think she's very practical and no-nonsense, but as a lover she might have been reluctant to "make him face facts" about just how bad his mother was (from her own POV). I mean, attacking somebody's mother is pretty multiculturally a "now you've gon too far" element (unless your father smelt of elderberries).
It'd be interesting to see another conversation now that she's entirely free-willed, and not trying to kid-glove Harry...
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 26, 2022, 05:26:05 PM ---"Some" of it??!?
Most of it, I'd think!
Everyone's an unreliable narrator.
Each character will speak from their own perspective; and often, will say different things (or just "spin" things differently) depending on who they're speaking to.
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The problem with that is that Harry's early knowledge of his mother came from multiple different independent sources: Chaunzoggoroth, Martha Liberty, Ebenezar, Thomas, Nicodemus, her own simulacrum, Lea, etc.
The thing is, their accounts all more or less tallied (with a slight exception in Martha Liberty's case). They all gave Harry a version that more or less lined up. There was a single hint in Martha's reaction that Margaret may not have been all bad to start with, but everything else lined up with the description of Margaret LeFay as a major-league warlock, troublemaker, killer, bad news on a plate.
Then, suddenly, around the time of Small Favor, things changed...and Harry didn't seem to notice. Which suggests to me strongly that JB is retconning.
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