The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Why is Mab trying to change Harry?
Mira:
--- Quote from: forumghost on February 06, 2023, 02:55:22 AM ---Yes he did. He was offscreen locking down the Never-never to stop the fomor from invading though there.
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Meanwhile it was Rashid holding down the fort where the real danger was, the Gates..
vincentric:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 06, 2023, 02:05:20 PM ---Meanwhile it was Rashid holding down the fort where the real danger was, the Gates..
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Rashid could not have done what Ferro did. And Rashid had the majority of Winter's forces, including the big hitters like Lea to help at the Gates. If you go and reread PT, Ferro takes the job of blocking Ethniu and the Formor from using the NeverNever as an assault route solo. In BG, Bob says that the power being used for that threatens the fabric of reality. The dragons seem akin to the hydroelectric dams of the world. What they do is boring to watch, but just the trickle they let through runs everything and what they are restraining could destroy everything.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 05, 2023, 07:13:12 PM --- You could be right about Bianca, but then again as my brother in law says, "she is just smart enough to be stupid." If Cowl or some other agent of Nemesis was able to convince her that to enable the infection of Winter, why wouldn't she go for it? I doubt that she would have thought it through.
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"Just smart enough to be stupid" is right; I too doubt she'd have thought it through. But her handlers -- the ones using her as a pawn -- also realize this. Why in the world would they give someone that "smart" such critical information, as the Nemesis-curse on the Athame??!?
I really only see one way Bianca could have known about Nemesis in the knife, and it's based on one of my less-likely WAGs: that the Ramps themselves are Outsider-kin, empowered/accursed by Outsider energies. The WAG is based largely upon names (which have power), particularly "Outer:" what if the "Lords of Outer Night" come in some part from the "Outer Gates"??? It is perhaps a feeble thread, but it's a thread.
If that were the case -- if Bianca was part-Outsider -- then maybe Bianca might have had some instinctive/intuitive "feel" for the Outsider energy in the Athame...
--- Quote from: Mira on February 05, 2023, 07:13:12 PM --- Lets not forget this is the woman who fed upon her beloved secretary until she died and then blamed Harry for it because he pissed her off.
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Frankly, that's just classic bully/abuser gaslighting -- this vile thing I did is your fault for provoking me, for not accepting my abuse, for standing up to me.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Frankly, that's just classic bully/abuser gaslighting -- this vile thing I did is your fault for provoking me, for not accepting my abuse, for standing up to me.
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Yes, but it was her excuse for setting up Harry.
--- Quote ---"Just smart enough to be stupid" is right; I too doubt she'd have thought it through. But her handlers -- the ones using her as a pawn -- also realize this. Why in the world would they give someone that "smart" such critical information, as the Nemesis-curse on the Athame??!?
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Because she doesn't think... In other words Bianca was smart enough to know Nemesis is, but because she doesn't think, she is perfect to be used as a pawn.
definition of a pawn in chess;
--- Quote ---What is the power of pawns in chess?
The power of pawns: The authors argue that pawns, often seen as weak pieces in chess, can actually be powerful assets in the right hands. They note that pawns can control key squares, create threats, and limit the movement of the opponent's pieces.
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Which defines Bianca as a Nemesis pawn pretty well don't you think? Basically the above is exactly what her party, i.e. those she invited to the party did, to set future events up.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on February 06, 2023, 07:43:12 PM --- ... Because she doesn't think...
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Exactly.
Why would an intelligent, secretive, advance-planning agent (like Cowl or Mavra) share critical info like that with someone like Bianca -- an over-ambitious climber, who has climbed higher than her competence, somone who doesn't think?
She can do her part just fine without the info.
Looping her in only weakens their operation, in case someone infers something if she does some villain-monologue BS, or even just a gloating tease.
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