Hello people! It's been a while, but I've been busy, and all my free time is taken up by watching the government contractors who are installing the sewer system in our village like a hawk. They keep working recklessly and ruining a lot of things. They even destroyed 4 of the trees that I placed around the perimeter of the farm (1 lemon, 2 pomegranates and one citrus). I guess with no government supervision, the contractors can do what they like. I hate it when people destroy trees, even though I know we're in the country side and there is a lot of green, I always get a feeling of loss when someone pulls down a tree.

I sort of redecorated our living room.

Words every man dreads to hear.
Also congratulation on your daughter's first solo excursion into the city. Don't worry about her missing a couple of stops. I used to do that all the time (still happens sometimes) but mostly because I was reading something, or inventing a different story arc for something I've read (if I didn't have a book with me).
@Dina: Sorry about your troubles, I hope your work in the lab goes smoothly from now on. And may your computer live to be 30 years old, become a working relic and take up lots of space in your cabinet because you don't have the heart to throw it away, and too lazy to sell it as scrap.

About the spiders, maybe in the south, but I'm not sure. We do have lots of scorpions if it makes you feel better
Rivers of London sounds interesting. I'll check it out. Although I tried reading comics on my phone, it was too much of a hassle to be enjoyable, so Sandman is out.

Hello there weirdest of the weird
How's everybody doing?
@Dina: Somehow, animals suffering always hits me harder than when people suffer. Riddick wasn't so bad, because they didn't dwell on the scene, and it was a quick one. Having to put down your own animal is... Ouch...
Question: did you see "Solace"? It's a 2015ish movie with Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrel.

All I'm saying is that their relationship makes favors redundant, be that friendship or work relationship. Remember Mab's offer of canceling the three favors in exchange for his service as a knight? Mab doesn't have to ask Harry for favors, she can order him to do what she wants, and in return she has a specific set of obligations towards him. Same goes for the other two queens.

Harry also knew that by asking a favor of Molly she will call him on it at some point.  However it was a price he was willing to pay to save Thomas if he could..

That part I never understood. Isn't he hers to command anyway? Looks like Harry got the simulacrum for free.

Gotta be careful on that line, because if it is Winter, it could be an embassy, which would make Harry an ambassador - is there diplomatic immunity?

Unless he's training little warlocks. In which case Carlos will be like "it's just been revoked"...

As per my own theory, I think the Paranet will be taking "lead" on the school.  And I think the overwhelming majority of students will be "minor talents" like the Ordo Lebes were.

They may even make a show of directing some borderline cases to the White Council, and maybe get a "White Council Approved" curriculum around teaching the Laws.

Elaine certainly knows how to contact Carlos!

But if they "hide in plain sight" that way, the WC will probably ignore such a school indefinitely... very much unlike a school run by Headmaster Harry.
 

Not indefinitely. As soon as the war with the fomor is settled, the wardens will devote more time to checking on low level magical societies, which is part of their jobs.
PS: @Ed: could you please not double (and triple and quadruple) post? It buries the posts before you, making them harder to quote.

I can see that leading to a civil war among the wizards.  The White Council will never go for an open school headed by Harry, they will want his head more than ever.

Don't forget that he does have allies on the senior council. It's just that most of them were sick when he got sacked. Besides, the operation will start so small that it'll probably escape their notice, and when they do notice, it'll take a while for them to make a decision, much less get something done. Probably enough time that Marcone in general and Harry in particular will be strong enough that the Council will never be able to set foot in Chicago.

@Regen: You must have been proud. That was amazing. The movie itself was good in my opinion, but not on par of the first two.
@Dina: have you seen Bambi? Or old Yeller? Or Cujo for that matter. (I didn't see Cujo but I read the book). Yikes.