I'm thinking if that is what it comes down to in the end, it is a real cop out in terms of story telling..
Oh yeah, Harry or someone traveled back in time and altered all of that stuff... That for me at any rate would be a huge disappointment.

If Butcher does it, I would guess he'd base it on Wolfe's Solar Cycle.


Butcher doing something similar would be fine by me- Harry hurtling around making sure his life is "close enough for government work".

She became worth it the moment she became kine for the immediate Raith family..  Big clue here, she's insane, but feeding on her makes her sane?But Maeve was infected, not possessed apparently.. As far as that goes, Maeve never had a "handle" as you call it on Harry, but Thomas did as of Grave Peril.Nemesis has the time...  All that time it has someone on the inside, watching.. Hence the name HE WHO WALKS BESIDE, that is someone that goes along, they don't interfere they are just there watching and taking in information.Or because Justine was already possessed, Susan couldn't have fed on her if she wanted to.That isn't Lara's style.Yes, but that was before Margaret's curse, Papa Raith isn't the man he used to be.  He wasn't going to use Nemesis to take out Thomas, but use Thomas by way of Justine..

As a side comment, the feeding doesn't make her sane. It lessens her emotions. Justine apparently suffers from a form of schizophrenia or related disease that disallows emotional regulation. Thomas "eats" her to normal, as if he's constantly excising an emotional cancer that's constantly growing. I thought it was a brilliant tidbit for a "nice" Whampire.

The suspicious bit is her sudden sanity "due to medication". I lean towards Justine never recovered from that near-fatal feeding: Nemesis offered her "healing" from it so she could be with Thomas. My 2 cents.

Also, in general: True Love protection takes two people who engaged in an act of true love. They both have to love the other, or it doesn't take. Which makes the act of true love that created their bond being Justine being willing to offer herself to Thomas to heal him and Thomas rejecting it at the last moment- very Butcher to find a way to make rejection an expression of true love.

But it's a two way street- Justine can't have been faking. If it wasn't real from her, the protection wouldn't have manifested.

Yes. Compare with the Erlking summoning

Disclaimer:  I'm an aerospace engineer that crossed trained as a lawyer.  So you seem about to get into the weeds past where I'm competent to trade blows with you.

That being said...

I am familiar with quantum entanglement and quantum encryption.  I have clients whose technology relies on quantum entanglement to create quasi-particles (like polaritons) that are then used in various applications ranging from quantum encryption and quantum computing to more exotic uses.  To assist their work, I have to half-way understand this stuff, although I was warned that only a dozen people on the planet actually "understand." 

I'm obviously familiar with the Schrodinger's equation, but I had to look up the Born interpretation. (Always good to learn something new). 

As for a theoretical explanation for why matter demonstrates waveform superposition distributions, etc., I'm aware that this is one of the postulated explanation for not really explicable collapse of wave functions.

This explanation has always dissatisfied me.  The uncertainty principle and the measurement problem are uncomfortable, but it seems un-parsimonious to postulate an infinite set of universes with all of their associated mass and energy just to cover up the fact that we can't know where an electron is and where it's going at the same time. 

My understanding is that while the Schrodinger equation is linear, wave collapse is not and so you just go round and round and round arguing about the probability function relating to the branch where we exist and the probability function of the particle to be observed. 

Worse, the attempts to use this concept to come up with a measurable observation (typically, trying to show the cosmological constant is a result of multiple universes) have failed. 

Smarter people than me, such as Sabine Hossenfelder, have explained why the multiverse/multiple worlds hypothesis is not science. 

Bringing this back around to my original post, the metaphysical impact that the multiverse/many worlds idea was intended to avoid is simply the fact of a cosmic beginning.

Born, like Pauli, is one of those who understood the math, instead of just how to use the math. Bohr was another, as was Dirac. Dirac's sense of humor was Dad jokes on steroids, though- I still sometimes eyeroll over bra and ket notation

The basic issue is quantum tunneling is an observed, measured phenomenon. The major issue with the multiverse, as I recall- I started in physics and moved into engineering- is that it inherently postulates infinite duplication of energy into infinite universes. But the alternative is that reality itself is fundamentally unfixed at the quantum level, and can- with low probability- just shift into a different possible state/configuration. Which doesn't really square with collective human experience.

In terms of fiction- personally, I don't mind Moorcock's take- where it was a vehicle for the weird and insane- though Marvel/DC's are for easy mode. Jordan's take was also decent- test models for reality- but that's not surprising, he was a physicist by training.

Don't presume, Grifyn, that the Sidhe can hold the Lady mantles. Everyone we have seen assume the mantles was mortal, or Changeling. The mantle *makes* you Fae; but you may need the free will of a mortal to become the Lady in the first place.

Did Maeve become a Fae and then Winter Lady- or did she go Changeling->Winter Lady?

Yeah see, the White Court actually broke the Accords by killing Maggie...

Proof, please. How would killing Maggie count as breaking the Accords?

If they killed her at a reception where she was a guest, sure- but it wasn't that kind of situation. Harry didn't violate the Accords by killing Bianca- he granted the power to the shades of her victims to do it. But they did it of their own free will independent of Harry. That's why the war was Red Court vs. White Council- no violation of the Accords, everyone else stayed out of it.

Regarding the bullets: I think Jim's going for "A bullet that killed a hero is a hero killing bullet" kind of situation- those with great destinies that were broken gaining metaphysical mass. The bullet from Nelson is firing with the force of Nelson's life.

Regarding Papa Raith- he killed his brother by tossing him from an airplane. Papa Raith is 2k years old, and has lead the White Court for some time. Baby brother was probably not a mere few centuries old. Nice nod towards the Raiths realizing Papa had lost his mojo.

The question is: Who knows that Eb is Harry's grandfather?

If Langtry does, he's stuck with eliminating Harry legally using the Wardens- difficult without Morgan and with Lucio down.

If he doesn't, I look forward to the scene where he orders Eb and then plays Roshambeau with the one wizard who doesn't care about his wards.