Questions for the upcoming Q&As:
From me:
2) Would you(Jim) please clarify exactly who the Faerie Queens can personally kill and who they can't? At various times in Summer Knight and in the rest of the series, we've been told or seen evidence that:
-- The Sidhe Knights are the only ones allowed to act in matters not directly related to the Faerie Courts. (SK, Ch. 10)
-- The Queens are not allowed to kill anyone who isn't a member of their own Court. (SK, Ch. 10)
And yet:
-- We've seen fae servants of the Faerie Queens kill and attempt to kill mortals many times.
-- Aurora was able to try to kill Harry just fine, but was unable to harm Murphy. (SK, Ch. 20-21)
-- When Harry is preparing to deal with Mab to become the Winter Knight, he thinks to himself that Mab can't kill a mortal, only make them wish they were dead. The implication seems to include the Winter Knight. (Changes, Ch. 30)
So which mortals can the Faerie Queens kill? Bob tells us one thing, but evidence in the books indicates something else.
Actually, Harry answers that in SK. He states that he can be attacked because he was acting as Winter's emisarry, and so was considered as part of the Winter Court for that time. The Fae Queens, as I understand it, can kill anything that falls under their court. And remember that fae servants are not the same thing as the fae themselves. That's why Mauve was so upset with Billy and the Alphas when they took out the huntress, and tried to get back at them via Jenny in Something Borrowed. And the other times we've seen the fae try to hurt someone, they always start off by trying to get them under some kind of obligation, because that would that person up to their influence.
Just my two cents, anyway.