There are a lot of questions surrounding Justin.  How he came to know about Elaine and Harry.  That he was raising them to enforcers. Enforcers for what? Ghost Story, when Justin confronted Harry with a straight jacket, Harry asks, "why?"  Justin answers;

"You don't have the knowledge you need to understand boy.  Not yet.  But you will in time."

That is weird, because he sounded just like Eb and Listens to Wind, in Peace Talks.  Morgan and Eb both call Justin, paraphrasing "a bastard who had gotten a hold of Harry." But what if unknown to them, Justin was working under orders from the Council?  However Justin miscalculated, infected, he was going to double cross the Council, but he hadn't anticipated that Harry would resist his efforts to enthrall him. 

Again in Ghost Story, HWWB seems to know all about Harry, he calls him a "child of the stars.."  He seems to also know all about Justin's training of him as well.  He appears to be testing Harry's potential, as young as Harry is..  One wonders, if HWWB knew all of this, was Justin infected? And on one hand he was working under orders, but on the other hand because he was infected, Justin had another agenda.. But he miscalculated..

HWWB also miscalculated, he was close to succeeding in intimidating Harry and was proceeding to murder him... But he made a critical error, he murdered poor Stan in front of innocent 16 year old Harry's eyes.  Harry had never witnessed anything like that, he knew it wasn't right, he knew Stan didn't deserve to die, it pissed him off.. That,I believe was the true turning point in Harry's life, that was the spirit of Malcolm coming through.  In that moment he demonstrated "power over Outsiders." 

  Sorry I am rambling this morning, but these squirrels are finding their way onto the exercise wheel
of my brain..

   1] We know that Morgan was aware of Harry from the get go and what he was supposed to be..
    So did he keep quiet at Harry's trial when he was sixteen? If so.  Why? It cannot all be because he fell into Justin's hands..  In fact all the more reason to push for the chop..
    2] At the trial they must have known Harry was the son of Margaret, but were mostly ignorant that Eb was his grand father?  Why promote Harry to full wizard while still a minor?  Overlook sort of that he broke the First Law, putting him under the Doom in the hands of the Blackstaff.. Oh yeah, Eb had orders, watch him, kill him if need be.. If he was going full warlock?  Some thought he already had, or for signs that he couldn't be controlled?  Did being Blackstaff mean that Eb was immune from suffering the same fate as Harry if he went bad?  There were some as late as Summer Knight who were still calling Harry a warlock, how come they weren't demanding Eb's head as well?

So in effect was Harry's trial a sham to cover up the fact that they lost control of him and the experiment back when Malcolm died and Morgan failed to keep track of him?  Also the cover up
continues because they still thought up until Battle Ground that they could still use Harry.. Now, like Kemmler they fear he has become too powerful, so after the Battle of Chicago they set up a kangaroo court to convict him, sort of, they still want to control him... Good luck with that..

  It isn't because she wants a closer alliance with the White Court, I doubt that she needs this marriage for that.  No, what she wants is to drive a wedge between Harry and Molly.  Mab has come to realize that Molly and Harry together are more than a match for her.  She also knows it has a chance of getting closer after Murphy's death, so to prevent that she wants him to marry Lara.  I doubt that Mab wants Lara as her successor, and I doubt that Lara wants to be her successor.  All Lara cares about is her family's well being and power, she'd mostly stay out of Mab's way and use her if possible.  More importantly she might be able to neuter Harry in a "proud cut" sort of matter so while he will continue to have all the spirit he had before, it is less likely he will unite with Molly to be a threat to Mab and her over all plans.

  Okay, so six books from now Murphy returns..  How will she have changed?  Will she have changed?
What do you not want to see?  What do you want to see?  What is the worst possible form she could take?  What is the best?  Is there a form so altered that you are sorry that she was brought back at all? How will that effect the story?

  In "Christmas Eve" we have Mab paying a visit to Harry at the Carpenter house with a gift for
little Maggie that was influenced by the movie, "Frozen."  Now Mab did make some "Mabbish" demands with it, like to be sure little Maggie knows who that gift comes from.  We hear from Molly that Mab had consulted with Sarissa and had actually sat through the movie, and she totally hates Disney.  Longand the short of it, it was a small gesture of humanity on Mab's part towards Harry..  My question is,did Molly have a lot more to do with it than Sarissa?                                                                                         

In "Good People,"  Mab confronts Molly and tells her she has to give up being human if she is ever going to succeed as a Winter Queen.  Molly isn't about to take any crap, gets in her face and tells her where she can put the ice..  Mab oddly backs down, a reaction we've seen before, but when Harry has done very much the same thing.  Now Mab does accuse Molly of some "Summer" behavior, but I think she was just blowing frost.  I think Molly was able to melt that ice cube that Mab has as a heart just a bit, thus, though it wasn't much and she needed Sarissa's help, she made the gesture that she did towards Harry with the gift for little Maggie without losing her image..

Poor Thomas turns out not to be the father of Justine's child? Out of his own mouth in the beginning
of Peace talks, while not impossible, it is highly unlikely that he got her pregnant.  Thomas says that White Court Vamps are for the most part sterile... Possible he is the exception because of who is mother was, but is it likely?  He says they were using birth control.. Failure? Possible, but how likely added to the probable low sperm count for Thomas?  Justine was lying about using it? Very likely, but at the same time if Thomas was right about himself, still an outside chance. 

Did HWWBs/Nemesis arrange for the outside chance of Thomas getting pregnant happen? Very likely, Justine/HWWBs/Nemesis admitted as much.  However not said, whether or not Thomas was the father.  It would be much easier for Justine to be unfaithful and get pregnant by a guy with a probable normal sperm count, actually the most logical thing for her to do.  Thomas wasn't going to demand a DNA test, he would just accept it and become worried to the point where he'd do anything to save her. 

Finally, Harry's gut feeling that something was a bit off about Justine when he told her the news about Thomas in the beginning of Peace Talks.. Could it be that her reaction felt off because there was no connection between her child and Thomas, not just the plan.

  A lot has been made that Harry should have trusted Carlos more and should have talked to him about what was happening in Peace Talks..  Really?

First chapter of Peace Talks when Harry and Thomas are jogging on the beach etc.  Carlos shows up
and tells Harry about the peace talks with the Fomor and that he gets to choose his team and he wants Harry to be a part of it.  All very friendly banter, except for a small thing, Carlos asks Harry how much his weighted vest weighs.. Then he kind of eyes Harry.. Given what we know now, was Carlos already sizing Harry up as a possible monster? Also supposedly they are friends, but no "FYI from Carlos that there is some crap coming down about Harry from the Senior Council and to be on his guard.. None, we also know now that is when Carlos put the tracker ink spot on him.. He also knows Thomas was on the beach, he too has worked with Thomas, some idea how close Harry and Thomas are, but not that they are brothers.

So events move along, the ink spot isn't a listening device, so he might not know about Eb's visit, unless it was preplanned between Carlos and Eb..

Carlos knows Harry spent considerable time at Murphy's place, but unknown if he knows what their relationship is.

Knows about the return to the apartment , the events there..

He knows of the visit to Justine..

At some point Harry picks up Murphy and they head to the Raith Estate to find out more information, because Harry hasn't a clue as to what is going on except that his brother is in deep poop...

On the way back they are stopped by the Wardens.. Now it gets interesting..
Harry finds out some interesting facts, he already knows from Eb that the Senior Council wants him gone,
1]  Carlos had put a tracking dot on ink on him at the beach..  Harry's response;

"Wow," I said in a level tone. "Mistrusting me from the get-go, huh?"

Carlos replies about doing shady things , shady times and shady people... But when he put that dot on Harry, he was merely running on the beach.

2] Yoshimo scans Harry for recent sexual contact... "Talk to me..." Oh yeah, Carlos knew Harry had spent lots of time at Murphy's place.. Maybe he didn't know they were a couple, but maybe he did, if he and Harry were such good friends.  But because Harry visited Lara, Thomas's sister, well, did you have sex with the vampire?  Did she put the whammy on you?  Chandler explains very honestly why Harry is suspect in the recent events... "Talk to me..." "We don't understand, we are all friends."

The way he said wewas something new.  He wasn't using the word as an inclusive one, like, we are all friends. He was using it as an exclusive term We, but not you.

But Chandler didn't feel good about this at all, because he attempted to telegraph a message to Harry with his eyes.

I saw recognition flicker in them as he saw me process what he was actually saying: Be advised, Harry. The White Council now considers you a threat.

Harry got the message, odd don't you think the warning came from Chandler, not from his good friend, Carlos.

"Talk to me..."  Yet, Carlos put a tracking dot on Harry before any of this hit the fan.. No FYI, no heads up at all.. Except a well, you should have known type thing, get down in the mud with pigs you get muddy type thing...

Harry's dilemma... He likes Carlos, he knows he is a good man, yet Carlos pulled that crap with the tracking dot.  Harry trusts he'd do the right thing, but really?  Where are his loyalties really? To Harry, who he thinks might have turned into a monster, he thinks Molly did, why not Harry?  Or to the Senior Council? To whom he is sworn as an arm of the law.

Harry wanted to talk to Carlos, but alone.. But that got complicated in the intrigue of was Carlos subverted by the Senior Council, isolated... But if talked to Harry alone would be suspected of being subverted by him and isolated.. Did Carlos really think Harry was a sock puppet of someone? If Harry did come clean, would Carlos go back and tell the Senior Council everything and make things worse?  Then the Council might think that Harry was giving some misinformation, all of which had to be verified... And Harry didn't have time for any of that..

So after everything goes down, Harry is kicked out, and Carlos says,

"You made the call when you didn't talk to me.  And sixty thousand people died."

Really?  Carlos bought into the argument on the beach when he put the tracking dot on Harry's wrist and asked how much weight his running vest was.  From his look he had already bought into the idea that Harry was Mab's personal monster.. Now he is trying to rationalize the fact that he had betrayed a friend.. "You didn't talk to me. And sixty thousand people died."  Really?  Harry didn't arrange for the Fomor to come with a Titan with the goal of wiping out the City of Chicago for starters.. Carlos had drunk the Kool-Aid, and had drank it from the beginning..  Call it PTSD from his encounter with Molly.