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Title: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Serack on June 12, 2016, 11:56:43 PM
Proven Guilty is possibly the most enigmatic book in the series, and as such, it has been the subject of many excellent discussions, many of which are archived in the DFRC, and indexed in elegast's theory index (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,35806.msg1700732.html#msg1700732) under Proven Guilty.  My direct contributions to the group discussion have mostly been confined to isolating particular details and picking them to bits.  This topic will be a thorough rehashing of the entire story. 

The first section will be laying out all the questions we have about the book and all the pieces of evidence we have from outside the books, as well as what we know happened before the curtain went up at the beginning of the book.  The second section will be my current thoughts on what may explain things best with the best evidence and fewest loose ends.

Required reading:
Things we can tease from required reading #1, the PG WoJ that I generally take as givens:

Things I think are strongly implied by reading #1, but admit are subject to some interpretation.  In order of least to most subject to different interpretation.



Major Outstanding Mysteries from Proven Guilty:

Detail Mysteries from Proven Guilty:  These aren’t as huge as above, but insight on them might shed light on the others.


The Pregame Setup
There were some things being set into motion before the curtains went up at the start of Proven Guilty, and this section will discuss those things.

Speculative Pregame Setup
link fixed 3/37/2019


Time Travel Harry did it.

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So here is how the puzzle pieces line up for me.

The 3 tropeish TTH goals
In a future book, TTH finds himself either stuck in the PG time, or having to travel to PG time to accomplish some task.  Either way, while in PG he has to accomplish a few things of three possible, but not exclusive natures.  I think it is likely that the possible issues he has to contend with end up being effectively the same thing, in that his primary reason for being there, or primary goals to accomplish in order to leave end up filling the holes in PG that are a result of temporal muckity muck. 

So the mysteries above possibly attributable to a TTH in order of least likely to most are:
So I'm going to give reasons why or why not each of the above was perpetrated by TTH, then conjure up a hypothetical scenario where all of this happened.

1)  Lock up Pell's theater
By itself, this is the least likely thing Harry did because there isn't really any evidence or evidence of motivation.  However, if he did #2, he probably did this too.  But going out on a limb, it seems to me that the Phages had no trouble fading back to their home realm on their own, but to carry Molly off, they apparently needed this real-estate, and they probably needed a cooperative, winter affinity, mortal practitioner to open the Way to drag her through.  Which would probably describe TTH pretty well.

2)  Summon the Murk during the Phage attacks
A, the cold nature of the Murk wards in these attacks screams Winter
B, Harry does briefly sense something familiar about the magic involved when he reaches out towards it

Negative:  It's hard to imagine Harry submitting to casting a spell that would facilitate the carnage the phages were wreaking, and also the blowby damage that was done by the confused people.

3)  Rear End PGH at the beginning.
I'm not sure what this accomplished.  The scene describes multiple impacts.  Possible results I can identify are:
This seemed like an act of opportunity and desperation.  It was violent and not very precise.  The main reason why I pin TTH for this is because if he was indeed around he would probably have the opportunity, and maybe need the above 2 things accomplished, and also because I remember being lead to believe that we would get resolution to this mystery and seeing the scene from TTH's perspective ramming PGH would certainly give us closure. (the last is red because I'm not happy that I don't know where that memory comes from)

4)  Probably something big at AT before the PG dungeon crawl party showed up.
To be honest, the main reason why think TTH was involved in the battle PGH saw the aftermath of is because I really want some closure on what happened here, and this is the ideal way to get it.  I WANT I WANT I WANT.  There maybe if I say it loud enough I'll get it.  (Griff has pointed out to me that Jim has promised us more story about what happened at AT (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,631.msg16945.html#msg16945))

5)  Fix Little Chicago the morning of the 2nd day, while Harry was out of the Appt. at the Hospital with Murphy, Bob, and Mouse.
Evidence for TTH kinda stacks up, not that there aren't alternate possibilities.

Break:  I wrote all the above (both sections) months ago and got back to this theory only recently.  Next I'll provide some more thoughts that can serve as building blocks for a complex and flimsy projection of what could have happened in PG/what will happen in a future book.

Projecting forward to project back:
Ok, as of writing this, the most recent book published is Skin Game, book 15.  We know that book 16 is Peace Talks, about an accords peace summit in Chicago.  Book 17 is supposed to be Mirror Mirror, where Harry is drawn to an alternate reality by an alternate Harry.  Book 18 hasn't had a name provided but it's supposed to involve professional wrestling.  For numerology reasons, Book 20 is likely to involve Denarians.

The presumptive TTH book is going to be pretty involved.  I kinda worry that Jim is going to have to work extra hard stressing that he tiptoes through the plot of PG making sure he doesn't accidentally crush things.  Thus I think it's unlikely that he can squeeze in those intricacies into the MM book on top of the alternate universe theme (not that it's impossible).  The same goes for the other books 16 and 18, so that only leaves books 19 and 20 (and the possible extension to the files, book 21) as possible case files for the presumptive "TTH book."

What mechanism/motivation sends Harry back?
Likely causes for TTH to end up in PG would be: (not mutually exclusive)
*Doylist thought:  From a writing perspective, GS showed it would be a very difficult 1st person story to write and draw the reader into if TTH is all alone on his mission in PG time.  This generates another really important question that I want to address:

Who Could TTH interact with in PG time?

Ok so if TTH did it, then how and why?
First, it should be understood that this is Conjecture, and very likely to be WRONG, but it is a swing for the fence, an attempt to line up all the balls and hit them with the que just right that they all sink in in one shot.  Or go down in flames.

Hows that for mixed metaphors. 

Summary of the Conjective WAG on PG: 
TTH Did it.  When did TTH travel back?  Book 20, to follow/travel with a Denarian or group of Denarians.  Why?  To save PG (and possibly DB timeline (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,44058.0.html)) AT from a Nemesis/outsider (possibly hell backed) coup/attack, presumably that was also temporal in nature.

The theoretical details:
In book 20 a nemfected agent of Hell time hops back to Arctis Tor (using the nemfected Lea as an anchor to gain entry) to subvert Mab's attempt to remove nemesis' influence over Lea, temporarily holding the fortress while trying to free her from her bonds.  Nick and or the new wielder of Thorned Namshiel convince TTH to time hop with them to help Mab retake AT with the assistance of a legion of the Erlking's goblins.  Thus it is actually Mab with Denarian backup that assaults AT before the PGH dungeon crawl shows up. 

While there, TTH finds that he is responsible for the vehicle accident against PGH and thus completes the circle and perpetrates the accident.  This sets off a chain of events where he also has to lock up Pell's Theater, fix LC (possibly to use it to track down an agent of Hell), and throw down the wards to impede Harry at the convention.  I think it is likely this ward also held the fetch in stasis minimizing the havoc it wreaks until PGH could deal with it. 

Edit:  A response below reminded me that required reading #2 above when applied to this theory practically requires that PG Tomas interacted with TTH during the fixing of LC.  Thus it is possible that he helped out TTH significantly.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Serack on June 13, 2016, 12:08:43 AM
Doh, I just realized I forgot to work in the LC fix into the final wag... ok editing to try to squeeze that in...
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: raidem on June 13, 2016, 12:42:21 AM
I really like it.

I think Mac gets involved in things after the meeting with Harry, Maeve, Lily.  It's likely to me that he didn't reopen the bar after that meeting.  So, it allows him to be involved in some capacity.  Perhaps this knowing Mac is involved in some way with the TT Harry that goes back.

If Harry has a choice to choose someone to go back in time with, I like Murphy for it.  He has chosen her time and again when he needs a sidekick.  It also allows precedent of Murphy getting involved in some time shenanigans which I always like.  I also think Murphy will end up with a Denarian, there is more to Harry's dream in Skin Game than what was apparent.

I'll note there isn't any "there you are" comments in PG so from my reasoning before, PG would be TT Heavy as opposed to simple brush with some of the earlier events that coincide perhaps with the "TYA" I've talked about previously.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Second Aristh on June 13, 2016, 12:57:54 AM
Very nice Serack.  I like the formatting.  For your red portion, wasn't there a Q&A where someone asked Jim about the wreck and Jim gave a cutesy response?  I'll have to search for it, but that could be what you're remembering.

Also, do we have a record of the first time Mab made the statement that Harry would be her knight?  Not just her offering him the job, but saying that he would take it one day.  If it's after the start of PG, that might be a nice thing to note here.  TTH as WK is an easy source for that kind of fact for a faerie.

Edit:  Going back, here are the times I could find where Harry declined Mab's offer of knighthood.  The only definitive time she stated that Harry would eventually accept her offer was in SmF, after PG. 
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Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Foxed on June 13, 2016, 07:01:06 AM
I would recommend looking into whether Harry had any off screen time in PG. My theory was that TTH was mentally time traveling*. This clears up a little bit more of the mystery, although it's possible that Harry doesn't spend enough time off screen to believably be participating in a separate plot with TTH at the wheel.

First, the crash becomes blindingly obvious as we meet TTH's first accomplice... Lash. That very scene makes a very important point about how good Lash's illusions are, and nobody can definitively prove that another car hit Harry. As to why, I deduced that the concussion PGH suffers prevents him from noticing any oddities during TTH's visit.

Second, obviously TTH needs to fix Little Chicago with Lash's help. Her act about how it's broken is an act, nothing more.

* Mentally projecting himself into his past body. See Slaughterhouse Five. Listen. Harry Dresden is unstuck in time.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Foxed on June 13, 2016, 07:05:20 AM
Also, as for other accomplices, I nominate Thomas. He shadows Harry for much of the plot, and when he joins the party, it is noticeable how apart from the group he is. Thomas doesn't really do anything to affect PG.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: KurtinStGeorge on June 13, 2016, 08:27:23 AM
Also, as for other accomplices, I nominate Thomas. He shadows Harry for much of the plot, and when he joins the party, it is noticeable how apart from the group he is. Thomas doesn't really do anything to affect PG.

Except rescue Harry from Darby Crane/Madrigal Raith.  Harry had run out of tricks when Thomas showed up with Mouse to pull Harry's chestnuts out of the fire.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: KurtinStGeorge on June 13, 2016, 08:46:23 AM
I like the OP, but it doesn't ask or attempt to answer what the Black Council; for lack of a better term, was trying to do by attacking Mab's home or why Mab put all her troops on Summer's border which made it impossible for either Summer or Winter to attack the Red Court.  We know what the effect was, not why she did it.  My guess is Mab was paying off a debt, not completing a deal she was forced to make.  I mean Jim made it very clear that Mab didn't lose the battle at Arctis Tor so it seems unlikely she was forced into a deal not to attack the Red Court.  I think Mab's tirade at the end of Small Favor about paying off all her debts was partly referring to a debt she had paid off by not attacking the Red Court after they crossed into Sidhe territory back in Dead Beat, as well as about paying back Nicodemus for breaking her accords. 
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Bergi on June 13, 2016, 09:27:34 AM
Well I have to agree with this theory. I have some ideas on possible fixes for problems with this theory.

First an idea that contradicts some of the points: Harry was the attacker on Arctis Tor with Lasciel's coin, which he fetched from the circle.  While doing this he realised that LC isn't fixed and that he has to be the one who did it. Sadly I don't have a good reason why Harry attacked.

For the alternative with Harry being part of the defence I came up with the following reasons: Something, which feeds on blood, is sealed under Arctis Tor, more precisely the court room. I think most of Mab's big scale rules are pure logical and so there has to be a reason why only blood shed is forbidden in her court room. When the blood of the ogre hits the ground in CD the whole ground begins to tremble, at that moment it seems logical as a mirror of Mab, but if a sealed something would be revealed, it still fits. If nemesis is really interested in freeing this being, the whole court room scene might be seen as a attack too. If Harry would have snapped and splattered the ground with the ogre, it would have been game over right there. One last hint at something under the court room is the trapdoor and Harry wondering what is down there.

About Thomas being the assistant I think it might be possible. I (and I think some others here too) have played with the idea of angels being wardens working across time lines. As hinted in Changes mouse belongs to this group too. So when Mouse and a time traveling Thomas (Alliteration so it has to be true) they are allowed to do so by the time wardens.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Serack on June 13, 2016, 10:33:19 AM
Also, as for other accomplices, I nominate Thomas. He shadows Harry for much of the plot, and when he joins the party, it is noticeable how apart from the group he is. Thomas doesn't really do anything to affect PG.

Oh yah!  I'd actually already concluded that it was likely that Thomas was there when LC was fixed.  I'm more inclined to say they had a few conversations, but I'm reluctant to think they interacted more than that
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: beetnemesis on June 13, 2016, 03:47:17 PM
Awesome writeup, and basically fits with what I've believed for a while.  A few points:
First:
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2)  Summon the Murk during the Phage attacks
A, the cold nature of the Murk wards in these attacks screams Winter
B, Harry does briefly sense something familiar about the magic involved when he reaches out towards it

I don't suppose you have a quote of that bit? I don't remember Harry finding the murk familiar. Also, I thought it was discussed that the murk was just something these phages can do?

Second: To go along with your Thomas thing, I seem to remember a post from a while ago that pointed out that Thomas was pretty spooked when Harry returned, that day. Like, "Point a shotgun at Harry for a second" spooked. It could just be fear of a Black Court attack, but it also could be that something weird happened that day.

Third: The Calvin and Hobbes book! Granted, this actually takes place in the third chapter of the following book, Small Favor, but seems like it should count. Harry has a bunch of books he uses as a reference. While he's not the neatest guy in the world, he isn't absent-minded; he doesn't just randomly lose books, especially with Bob acting as librarian. So, here's what happens:

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I rubbed my hand against the back of my neck. It didn’t make it hurt any less, but it gave me something to do. “I’ve seen these goat guys, or read about them before,” I said. “Or at least something close to them. Where did I put those texts on the near reaches of the Nevernever?”

“North wall, green plastic box under the work bench,” Bob provided immediately.

“Thanks,” I said. I dragged out the heavy plastic storage box. It was filled with books, most of them leather-bound, hand-written treatises on various supernatural topics. Except for one book that was a compilation of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. How had that gotten in there?

Bob knows EXACTLY where the books are. Even books like these, which it sounds like Harry hasn't read in a while (else he wouldn't have to ask Bob where they were).  And yet... Calvin and Hobbes? What?

What I think is likely is that TTH needed a reference of some kind, took a book, and the C&H book either got put in there by mistake (rushing to leave the basement for some reason) or on purpose (for some esoteric reason).


Like you said, DF books are pretty lean. The C&H book is random as hell, and has the feel of something that was deliberately placed.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Sydna on June 13, 2016, 04:16:46 PM
The Calvin and Hobbs book has been discussed before. Not familiar with it myself. But others have described the last comic having C & H wandering off into a winter wonderland. Possibly a cluebat.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Second Aristh on June 13, 2016, 04:29:24 PM
Awesome writeup, and basically fits with what I've believed for a while.  A few points:
First:
I don't suppose you have a quote of that bit? I don't remember Harry finding the murk familiar. Also, I thought it was discussed that the murk was just something these phages can do?
Here it is:
Quote from: Proven Guilty Ch.
He gave me an odd look, grabbed an older woman who was passing blindly, and sent her off to follow the wall to the door out. He shivered then, and when he exhaled his breath came out in a long, frosty plume. The temperature had dropped maybe forty degrees in the space of a minute.
I struggled to ignore the sounds of frightened people in the dark and focused on my magical senses. I reached out to the cold and the gloom, and found it a vaguely familiar kind of spellworking, though I couldn’t remember precisely where I’d encountered it before.
I spun in a slow circle with my eyes closed, and felt the murk grow deeper, darker as I faced back down the hall to the hotel’s front desk. I took a step that way, and the murk thickened marginally. The spell’s source had to be that way. I gritted my teeth and started forward.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: peregrine on June 13, 2016, 04:38:26 PM
Re: Harry travelling back in time, it could also be a major fuckup on someone's part, a magical accident that nobody actually planned on.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Serack on June 13, 2016, 05:15:23 PM
Second: To go along with your Thomas thing, I seem to remember a post from a while ago that pointed out that Thomas was pretty spooked when Harry returned, that day. Like, "Point a shotgun at Harry for a second" spooked. It could just be fear of a Black Court attack, but it also could be that something weird happened that day.

One of the most absurd and hilarious things I've ever seen on these forums, is the theory that Thomas pulled the shotgun on Harry because he was overly skittish after having just been subjected to coitus with the Burger King (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,31689.msg1367005.html#msg1367005).
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: vbear2011 on June 13, 2016, 05:15:53 PM


3)  Rear End PGH at the beginning.
I'm not sure what this accomplished.  The scene describes multiple impacts.  Possible results I can identify are:
  • Murph getting called in on the case early
  • Delay's Harry's being able to get onto the case
  • Makes Harry miserable early.

This seemed like an act of opportunity and desperation.  It was violent and not very precise.  The main reason why I pin TTH for this is because if he was indeed around he would probably have the opportunity, and maybe need the above 2 things accomplished, and also because I remember being lead to believe that we would get resolution to this mystery and seeing the scene from TTH's perspective ramming PGH would certainly give us closure. (the last is red because I'm not happy that I don't know where that memory comes from)



I always liked TTH for being the one to rear end PGH because if PGH hadn't been in his fender bender then he wouldn't have been all hazy, he would have unplugged his phone and Molly wouldnt have contacted him in time, So he would have tried using LC and blown up and died. I like TTH for tying up PGH just long enough to get caught up in the Molly Case, and giving TTH the chance to fix LC which he could do because he was the one who made it in the first place.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Lawgiver on June 13, 2016, 05:19:50 PM
Here it is:
The reference to direction strikes me... back towards the hotel's front desk...???

Isn't that where the convention sign-in tables are at... and Sandra Marling?  We've presumed somewhat that Darby Crane was the one working the magic but we've also noted that, with very few exceptions, White Court Vampires are not well versed in magic.

Marling has been tagged more than once as a suspect for "dark side" activities, this seems another likely bit of evidence.

Guesses, surmises, wags... /sigh
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: raidem on June 13, 2016, 07:06:46 PM
I could see marling being fomor.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Lawgiver on June 13, 2016, 09:27:24 PM
I could see marling being fomor.
I went back and read the various bits of Marling on-screen in PG... nothing there says Fomor to me... She doesn't wear a turtleneck sweater in the heat (like Vito does in BR), etc.  None of the fomor descriptor tags are used there.  I can't buy it. Sorry.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: peregrine on June 13, 2016, 09:28:04 PM
I went back and read the various bits of Marling on-screen in PG... nothing there says Fomor to me... She doesn't wear a turtleneck sweater in the heat (like Vito does in BR), etc.  None of the fomor descriptor tags are used there.  I can't buy it. Sorry.
But can you conclusively prove that she isn't?
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Lawgiver on June 13, 2016, 09:50:05 PM
But can you conclusively prove that she isn't?
What, prove a negative?  All but impossible....please spare me.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Griffyn612 on June 13, 2016, 11:15:00 PM
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The main thing that broke this barrier down for PG is Priscellie’s observation in my LC fix timing topic (Required external reading #2) that since Jim spent ink on explaining temporal issues in PG, something in that book required a temporal anomaly.  Yet we didn’t see the temporal Chekhov’s gun get fired, so if the reasoning is sound, it happened off screen.
Devil's Advocate: We did see time travel, in the sense that Maeve manipulated the time-stream around AT.  I think that was the first time we saw such a thing in the series, and needed at least some sort of setup before Murphy's job is all but lost at the end because of it.

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2)  Summon the Murk during the Phage attacks
A, the cold nature of the Murk wards in these attacks screams Winter
B, Harry does briefly sense something familiar about the magic involved when he reaches out towards it

Negative:  It's hard to imagine Harry submitting to casting a spell that would facilitate the carnage the phages were wreaking, and also the blowby damage that was done by the confused people.
There's a lot more to the Reaper attack than just that.

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TTH could bring a side kick.  This has its own hazards because it's now 2 elephants in the temporal china shop, but may be doylisticly necessary.
I'm hoping for Maggie, and she has the Calvin & Hobbes book in her backpack.  She amuses herself while Harry fixes LC, and then when he hastily puts things away, he either leaves the book because he remembers finding it later, or he hastily puts it with the others, not realizing what it was.

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Detail Mysteries from Proven Guilty:  These aren’t as huge as above, but insight on them might shed light on the others.
Other things of note that aren't actually mysteries:

Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Griffyn612 on June 13, 2016, 11:39:44 PM
Also, as for other accomplices, I nominate Thomas. He shadows Harry for much of the plot, and when he joins the party, it is noticeable how apart from the group he is. Thomas doesn't really do anything to affect PG.
The issue I have with Thomas is that, if Thomas knew Harry was going to time travel back at some point, why was he so sure Harry was dead after Changes?  Instead he would have been convinced Harry wasn't, because he hadn't traveled back yet. 
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Foxed on June 14, 2016, 02:06:51 AM
The issue I have with Thomas is that, if Thomas knew Harry was going to time travel back at some point, why was he so sure Harry was dead after Changes?  Instead he would have been convinced Harry wasn't, because he hadn't traveled back yet. 

Elementary, my dear Griff. TTH explains to Thomas enough about not mucking around with the timeline that Thomas shadows Harry and rescues him when he needs to, and then does his best to stay out of the decision making process.

So when Harry dies, Thomas thinks that the timeline had indeed been mucked with and IT'S ALL HIS FAULT.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: bigdangmoose on June 14, 2016, 05:08:49 AM
Elementary, my dear Griff. TTH explains to Thomas enough about not mucking around with the timeline that Thomas shadows Harry and rescues him when he needs to, and then does his best to stay out of the decision making process.

So when Harry dies, Thomas thinks that the timeline had indeed been mucked with and IT'S ALL HIS FAULT.

Well, it's either that, or it's TTMolly that talks to Thomas, being that she is one of the only people with the power now to go back in time, capable to enter the place, know about the lab, and possibly fix LC. She could easily tell him that if he doesn't help and she doesn't fix LC, Harry would die. She doesn't have to say how, just that he does. So when Harry does die, he is all over himself for not being there to help.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Jaken on June 15, 2016, 01:15:41 PM
I've been quite busy recently... but sooner or later Im going to have to throw down on this topic, get my head in the game first, do a quick reread...

*the scene where harry gets hit is cluebatted in BR, right before Harry gets on Murphy's bike, before crash with magic lance...
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: raidem on June 15, 2016, 04:05:55 PM
I've argued before that BR standoff between Harry/Murphy with Lord Raith in BR gets repeated at some point.  I also wondered if perhaps Harry riding Murphy's bike with magical lance sort of messed with time a bit.

Murphy talks about in the standoff with Lord Raith, doing it 'this time' Harry's way.  I've allowed the possibility that in some redo, they do it Murphy's way and get even better results.

I admit I reach a bit with my ideas.  Most can't be correct.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: peregrine on June 15, 2016, 04:13:57 PM
I also wondered if perhaps Harry riding Murphy's bike with magical lance sort of messed with time a bit.
How?
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: raidem on June 15, 2016, 04:54:21 PM
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I started channeling our force into the staff, focusing it into a blunted wedge in front of us. All the
extra power flooding ahead of us started heating the air, and flickers of blue and purple fire began
streaking back around us in a corona, like one of the space shuttles on reentry.

I think Harry inadvertently tapped into a time manipulation.   That motorcycle, as we see in Cold Days, has a history with time travel.  It is also likely that Cold Days isn't the first time it rode with The Wild Hunt.  Thomas rode that motorcyle in Dead Beat, I believe.  He did get pulled into the Hunt then.  It's also a vehicle strongly resistant to active mortal magic.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: peregrine on June 15, 2016, 05:54:46 PM
Which time manipulation was going on for Harry to have tapped into?
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Jaken on June 16, 2016, 01:30:25 AM
Noticed something maybe, long have I suspected the walkers as being the primary agents of Nfection, I favor 4 total over 3 and I noticed, there are 3 that go after Molly and a 4th stronger one that stays behind when Harry casts his specll to divert them. I have before likened scarecrows form and function in its similarity to fearbringers. But can hhwbh be placed as well?
Because of a thread griff made on the simularities of cat Sith and hwwbh Ive been looking for others, the cat(Alice and wonderland cat...?) that attacks Harry inside the theater has simular tufts of Hair as is later described on hwwbh himself.
Bit confusing cause of the timeline, but if time is a river and things that exist outside of it are on land, then they can reach in whenever is pertinent or they have a solid beacon to attach to and pull out whatever comes with them for their memetic form.
Idk I'll have to look more.... Comments?
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Nomad on June 16, 2016, 01:48:06 AM
A slight deviation from your original theory;
it doesn't have to be TTH that does the 1-2-3 on your list.
One of the complications of TTH's mission might be tracking down another time traveler, albeit one that is... suffering from certain mental issues, ala hallucinations and being lost in his/her own mind/imagination... Imagine someone trying to stop evil Harry doppelganger thing from luring Murphy (or someone else) into a trap, except the idiot isn't ware that it's in the past and targeting the wrong thing and mucking stuff up on an impressive scale...
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Griffyn612 on June 16, 2016, 02:18:46 AM
I've never been that convinced of the "traveling back to find another traveler" plot.  It seems more likely to me that he'll need to travel back for information.  I'm not sure who would go back like that, unless it's a multi-temporal assault (again) or a turned enemy going back to help with the AT attack, even though that doesn't make temporal sense.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Nomad on June 16, 2016, 02:29:33 AM
Grif;
No, nonoononono, apologies for misunderstanding/miscommunication
I didn't want to imply that he came after someone, think someone very powerful but also quite deep in the cukoo lander territory (possibly not experiencing the flow of time as mortals do) trying to "help" TTHarry, on it's own volition.
Think Fizban and his fireballs in the dragonlance stories.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Griffyn612 on June 16, 2016, 02:47:27 AM
Grif;
No, nonoononono, apologies for misunderstanding/miscommunication
I didn't want to imply that he came after someone, think someone very powerful but also quite deep in the cukoo lander territory (possibly not experiencing the flow of time as mortals do) trying to "help" TTHarry, on it's own volition.
Think Fizban and his fireballs in the dragonlance stories.
I never read that series, so I don't get the reference.  But others have suggested he's got to go back to stop another traveler.  I just think that's too Terminator, but if anyone could pull it off, it'd be JB.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Second Aristh on June 16, 2016, 02:47:48 AM
I've never been that convinced of the "traveling back to find another traveler" plot.  It seems more likely to me that he'll need to travel back for information.  I'm not sure who would go back like that, unless it's a multi-temporal assault (again) or a turned enemy going back to help with the AT attack, even though that doesn't make temporal sense.
Really?  It seems like chasing a villain through time would be the most likely reason for Harry to go back in time to me.  Just information doesn't seem like a good enough reason to need to go back in time.  He can bargain with people in the present for secrets.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Sir Huron Stone on June 16, 2016, 02:52:39 AM
First things first: Serack, I love your theory, and the work you put into it.

Second: I just have this image in my head of Harry walking in on Eb working some time traveling ritual, and somehow falling in and ending back in PG and seeing himself driving down the street and not getting hit by another car, freaking out, stealing a car, and hitting himself to keep the timeline going, and then it all just snowballing from there. And possibly fighting off other people that, if he does not do so, will completely rolfstomp PGH because he doesn't see them coming, or isn't prepared to fight them, or just isn't strong enough yet.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Griffyn612 on June 16, 2016, 03:04:46 AM
Really?  It seems like chasing a villain through time would be the most likely reason for Harry to go back in time to me.  Just information doesn't seem like a good enough reason to need to go back in time.  He can bargain with people in the present for secrets.
Unless the only person that had the information is dead.  There were theories a while back that Mab, Lea, or someone else might die before the casefiles are over.  Others have speculated that he'll need to use Little Chicago to find something. 

As for someone going back... the only reason to go back would be to help with the attack on Arctis Tor.  But since the TTH theory largely calls for a stable loop via time bridge, the events occurring would occur once, and remain unchanged.  If you throw that out, then it ruins the link to the events that already passed in PG.

For example, let's say Ferro decides to go back to help fight against AT.  That means he doesn't recall participating the first time, and no-one that did reported his participation.  But since we've already "seen" Future Harry's participation in events during PG, it means that whoever he followed back was also there.

The only way it works is if the person going back (or anyone they know, including surviving allies) doesn't know they already did, and that it failed.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Second Aristh on June 16, 2016, 03:52:31 AM
Unless the only person that had the information is dead.  There were theories a while back that Mab, Lea, or someone else might die before the casefiles are over.  Others have speculated that he'll need to use Little Chicago to find something. 

As for someone going back... the only reason to go back would be to help with the attack on Arctis Tor.  But since the TTH theory largely calls for a stable loop via time bridge, the events occurring would occur once, and remain unchanged.  If you throw that out, then it ruins the link to the events that already passed in PG.

For example, let's say Ferro decides to go back to help fight against AT.  That means he doesn't recall participating the first time, and no-one that did reported his participation.  But since we've already "seen" Future Harry's participation in events during PG, it means that whoever he followed back was also there.

The only way it works is if the person going back (or anyone they know, including surviving allies) doesn't know they already did, and that it failed.
But with players like Mab/Odin/Uriel, are there really bits of important information that could have died with someone?  Maybe, but I can't imagine what it would be.

I was thinking broader than just PG for the time travel book anyway.  Time travel is too convenient of a way to actually show all of the behind the scenes moves the BC has made throughout the series beyond just PG.  It's a show vs tell issue from a writing perspective. 

I don't think you have to throw out a stable loop with a chase book.  Say some BC player goes back in time to try to change history.  The right push at the right time can snowball into drastic changes.  The BC/Outside has had so many close calls with big game over plots that you have quite a few chances to make a huge impact.  Furthermore say that since time travel is so expensive to pull off only someone with a small enough metaphysical mass (Harry + possible sidekick) can go after them.  It took Kringle to send the Wild Hunt forward less than a day (hours or minutes? I can't remember), so to send Harry years into the past may take a huge amount of power.  (If the "rubber band" theory of time holds water, they might have to send Harry back several different instances to several different times) 

At that point, Jim can handle it like Prisoner of Azkaban.  Avoid your past self and try to change as little as possible, but the changes you do make still fit into the original timeline.  The book becomes an investigation of where the BC member will try to change history and Harry somehow quietly foiling those different plans in the nick of time.  So, Harry not acting would be an alteration of the original timeline and allowing the BC member to win.

PG basically requires time travel to make sense, so that will be a major part of the book.  But you can also fulfill the WoJ of seeing Sue again by jumping to DB for instance.  For a bonus if TT!Harry meets Mab at some point, she gets proof that one day he'll be her knight, hence her definitive statements about him eventually accepting.  Really, we could revisit many of the major scenes in the series as a recap before heading into the BAT.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: raidem on June 16, 2016, 10:48:08 AM
Lots of which, I've been arguing for quite awhile. 

I like your write up.  I do believe team bad attempted an assault on the timeline.  TTharry gets a chance to remedy it.

I will point out that any case in which we have TT people going into the past say to pg, it proves the case that their already is some future case, or iteration.  So many fail to realize it when they assert these types of theories.
From pgs perspective there exists a future timeline.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: nedserD C B yrraH on June 16, 2016, 04:15:32 PM
I love the idea of Harry having to Prisoner of Azkaban it. But instead of conjuring a Patronus he has to shoot himself in the back during Changes. I also relish the possibility that JB will have Harry use multiple different TT tropes. Harry has always been aware of pop/geek culture. I'm not saying he's gonna get in a Tardis but Harry has mentioned Buckaroo Bonzai, a greatly underappreciated time travel film.  Yeah, I said it, film.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Serack on June 16, 2016, 04:29:12 PM
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I started channeling our force into the staff, focusing it into a blunted wedge in front of us. All the
extra power flooding ahead of us started heating the air, and flickers of blue and purple fire began
streaking back around us in a corona, like one of the space shuttles on reentry.

I think Harry inadvertently tapped into a time manipulation.   That motorcycle, as we see in Cold Days, has a history with time travel.  It is also likely that Cold Days isn't the first time it rode with The Wild Hunt.  Thomas rode that motorcyle in Dead Beat, I believe.  He did get pulled into the Hunt then.  It's also a vehicle strongly resistant to active mortal magic.

*blink blink*

Keen observations!  If I get the chance some day, I'll ask if Murph has had the same bike through the series, and if it's having been involved as a conveyance in so many significant supernatural events, has resulted in it's gaining its own power like you've mentioned an athame can. 

Time to nomnom more responses.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: bigdangmoose on June 17, 2016, 02:04:44 AM
The idea of the motorcycle gaining power is an interesting one.

Now, here's an idea for a TT plot. It's been thrown around that JB had said that he had an idea for one of the books that involved Harry being in a mental institute. What if that is the part that starts everything off. Harry goes to bed one night, say after a night at Will and Georgia's playing games, and wakes up the next day in the asylum. He finds that all of his friends have turned their backs on him except Michael. And through talking through Michael, he finds out that the events of PG were altered. And the day he was gone in PG plays a part of it. That the black magic going around Chicago wasn't just Molly, but some other bigger player. And TTHarry needs to make sure that PGHarry finds Molly while TTHarry takes care of the bigger issue.

Think Men in Black 3. I know, not a great movie, but interesting TT plot.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Cyberchihuahua on June 17, 2016, 02:28:37 AM
A small item, but maybe TTH locked up Pell's theater in order to keep Murphy from going inside and getting killed by the guard Fetches.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: peregrine on June 17, 2016, 03:12:36 AM
On the one hand, what history with time travel does the motorcycle have other than what we see during Cold Days?

On the other hand, I think Jim has mentioned something about how Murph's bike doesn't seem to have any problems operating despite the massive amounts of magic Harry is wielding right next to it.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Griffyn612 on June 17, 2016, 03:17:18 AM
Meh.  Harry's old duster was around for a lot, and it didn't make a difference.  If an item magically imbued didn't get a bonus for being around magic, it doesn't seem likely that the motorcycle would.

The only thing the motorcycle has going for it is the fact that it's been in the hunt, and presumably was masked both times.  If so, it might have gained a little bit of a resistance to hex, but as the Hunt magic isn't mortal, it might have no effect.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Nomad on June 18, 2016, 06:05:08 PM
Griffyn, mate... you really lack in the "techno romance" department.
Certain machines... just bend the rules of probability and casuality even in the mundane real life (See older Toyota Hilux, 286/386/486 computers, F4 Phantom II, UH-1 Iroquois,  Yamaha YBR 125 ( :D ) and so on and so forth) and others have a mystique about them (Choppers, Cheap Steel Asian-American Defence Implements, Bullwhips) , although unexplainable.

It isn't hard to think that a trusted iron steed that already possesses both of such qualities, could/would become much more in the "magic is real" of the Dresdenverse.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Griffyn612 on June 18, 2016, 07:48:16 PM
Griffyn, mate... you really lack in the "techno romance" department.
Certain machines... just bend the rules of probability and casuality even in the mundane real life (See older Toyota Hilux, 286/386/486 computers, F4 Phantom II, UH-1 Iroquois,  Yamaha YBR 125 ( :D ) and so on and so forth) and others have a mystique about them (Choppers, Cheap Steel Asian-American Defence Implements, Bullwhips) , although unexplainable.

It isn't hard to think that a trusted iron steed that already possesses both of such qualities, could/would become much more in the "magic is real" of the Dresdenverse.
By that idea, the Beetle should have benefited from a bonus.  It escaped flaming monkey poo, helped slay a chlorofiend controlled by a Summer Lady, survived mold demons, was exposed to who knows how many tracking spells, was imbued be Harry's purpose countless times as he raced to people's aid, and had direct contact with wizard blood, foo dog drool, and Mister's hairs.

But that didn't keep it from breaking down regularly.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Nomad on June 19, 2016, 05:34:45 AM
Ah, but the little beetle has always been the donkey, compared to Murphy's trusted steed. A bit of an ass if you will :).
It's breakdowns remind me of a mule refusing to budge after it came too close the danger, again and extorting additional carrots and care rather than the Call of Cthulhu rpg-esque deaths of other, more modern vehicles.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: toodeep on June 23, 2016, 09:06:08 PM
I think TTH will come back to this period and do some of these actions if not others as well.  I wouldn't be surprised if he is part of the defense of AT. 

But you asked who might have been involved?  It comes down to method.  One thing Harry said about time travel very early on was that it would involve enormous power because of the need to create your mass (or something to that effect), but now he knows a way around that - just sending his spirit back.  So the obvious assistant is Mort.  As I recall there is a disconnect in the series about Mort's house.  In one book he's in a house, in the next he's in a condo, and in the next he's back in the house.  I thought there was a WoJ implying that this was not a mistake - it implies there was a temporal change having to do with Mort.  I haven't looked at what books these gliches were in, might it might support the theory.

The problem with this is that he then needs somewhere to be during the day, and way to get to the house during the day.  Possession?  Any chance that his brother was acting so strange because he was possessed by Harry?

Finally, there are all kinds of interesting things that might have happened at the same time.  When was the last time we saw Sandra Marling in the book?  Maybe the reason we haven't seen her since is because she threw down with TTH as some point...
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Serack on July 10, 2016, 11:34:39 PM
This is one of the more interesting new WoJ from yesterday.  It's only fitting that the most British character in the DV so far is associated with time magic.  In hindsight, we could have probably guessed this based off Doctor Who, Big Ben, and Jim's sense of irony. 
So, based on this I'm going to make a WAG that Chandler will be Harry's companion/sidekick in the time travel book (crosses fingers in the hopes that it's titled Second Chance).  While we're at it, it seems that Chandler as the British prisoner in Demonreach is a valid possibility as well if Chandler needed to wait out some time shenanigans.

Am I the only one that didn't realize that Chandler was part of the young faction of wardens?

Wait, you can combine those two theories and make Harry's TT companion British Prisoner TT Chandler...  Which is an awesome theory!  (Edit:  And probably what you were trying to say)
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Ragnar__Danneskjold on July 11, 2016, 12:00:03 AM
A common trope with Time Travel stories is the bitter jaded hero/sympathetic villain goes back in time to prevent some cataclysm from happening after identifying the key point in the past that he needs to "fix" in order to prevent things for happening the way they did. The only problem is that this usually is what ends up causing, at least in part, the events in the first place, which is why things still did happen the way they did. See any number of Star Trek/Star Gate/other sci fi shows for a myriad of examples of this. Efforts to change the past create the exact past that they are trying to change.

So a possible theory is that TTH is going back in time to prevent Molly from getting kidnapped and this becoming the WL. Perhaps she goes bad in the future and he thinks that he can change it to prevent her from getting kidnapped (or dare I say rescued) so that she never gets primed to become WL and thus doesn't go bad. The only thing is we already know (and he should too) that the efforts to prevent the events of PG fail. The locked theater does nothing. The fetches and other magical barriers don't work, and things do happen exactly the way they do and she does end up becoming WL.

I would wager that this could even be applied to other mysterious events that we've seen happen. The drive by car event, fixing LC, etc. TTH goes back in time in order to try to fix something, but his efforts to fix it are actually what caused things to happen exactly the way they did. Maybe someone (Mab, Nic, etc) lies* to him and tells him that he can go back in time to fix things, only they know that he needs to go back in time, not to fix it, but to ensure that the events unfold the way they really did.

*Or cleverly tells the truth but in such a way to give Harry the wrong impression.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: raidem on July 11, 2016, 12:15:53 AM
There is WOJ I just looked at today that suggests we will find out who fixed LC in book 20 or so. 

Though that was from 2011 but it highly suggets some connection to Denarians like Serack suggested since book 20 follows the multiple of 5 format.
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In what book will we find out who fixed Little Chicago?
Probably not until 19 or 20.  Since I'm a lazy writer, probably 20. I think that would be good for the last of the case files, so I'll hold off on that one.

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Wait, you can combine those two theories and make Harry's TT companion British Prisoner TT Chandler...  Which is an awesome theory!  (Edit:  And probably what you were trying to say)
I've also suggested in the past that Chandler's note to Harry in Changes coupled with Luccio's was that there were two messages sent to two different Harry's.  One Harry, other IdHarry.  I also wonder if perhaps there was information that Chandler got via time divination that he provided to Harry.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: a3dfiend on July 11, 2016, 07:49:25 PM
Has anyone ever compiled a list of all the stuff that is "off" in PG? Just a bullet point list of the things that dont add up to the rest of the series or dont line up with the events of the big picture?
After reading the series so many times, I kind of think that PG doesnt take place in the same timeline/reality as the rest of the series. Just to name one thing really quick: Why does the sign in Mac's say "Accorded Neutral Ground" instead of the "Accorded Neutral Territory" like all of the other books post GP?
Maybe Ill try to set up a list like that and post it on its own thread after reading it again...
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: raidem on July 11, 2016, 07:51:16 PM
I actually had a topic I wrote exactly on that sign of Mac's.  Let me see if I have it still or if it got shredded.
It got shredded.  To recreate the list I gathered simply look for instances of "accorded neutral" in the books, then post those occurrences.

There is also a thread on inconsistencies in the Dresden Files.  It is somewhere in the reference collection.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: vultur on July 20, 2016, 05:44:50 AM
Third: The Calvin and Hobbes book! Granted, this actually takes place in the third chapter of the following book, Small Favor, but seems like it should count.

I think that was a hint about the hobs that show up later in SmF. It's mysterious on its own (I'm thinking Lea or Mab passing through thresholds since they've got benign intentions... could be angelic though) but I don't think related to the PG mysteries except in the sense that somebody got through Harry's threshold and did subtle stuff.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Lawgiver on July 20, 2016, 04:49:15 PM
Just reading through this and had to make note on this as I read it (sorry if it's already mentioned further on).

My guess is Mab was paying off a debt, not completing a deal she was forced to make.
JB has said that Mab is in the process of balancing her ledger and that, as of SG, she had worked her way down to Nicodemus.  Truth to tell, though, the dialogue within SG clearly shows us that her debt was to Nic’s Fallen, Anduriel – with Nic as the actor/minion who did the deed just as Harry will be Mab's actor/minion to repay the debt.  That would seem to mean the payoff at AT would have to have been to a more Powerful entity than Anduriel, an Angel.  The time difference between PG and SG is about eight years so there’s no telling how Powerful an entity she’d be paying back that much earlier on.
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Lawgiver on July 20, 2016, 04:56:12 PM
Oh yah!  I'd actually already concluded that it was likely that Thomas was there when LC was fixed.  I'm more inclined to say they had a few conversations, but I'm reluctant to think they interacted more than that
I have a little trouble with Thomas being a knowing accomplice to TTH during PG.  The main reason is his reaction to Harry's "death".  If he knew that TTH was coming from the future, why was he so badly bummed all the way through GS... and still had a beef with Harry on his boat during CD?  His knowledge that Harry had come from the past should have precluded such an emotional response; he'd have known Harry wasn't really dead.

I find it more likely that TTH got into the basement with LC through the same Way that took him out to Lea's Garden once before.  Lea subs for Mab when Mab is busy elsewhere.  But Mab would be busy right at AT for the attack so Lea would be free to take Harry to that Garden and let Harry through to fiddle around in the lab.  Thomas hears stuff going on down there - when no one else is supposed to be home - and finds he can't get the trap door open (possibly Lea keeping it shut or she puts him to sleep as she did with Susan/Martin in Changes).  That would be enough to rattle him and put him on the defensive - armed and dangerous when Harry comes back.

/sigh
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Wizardofnelson on July 23, 2016, 08:04:10 PM
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Captain Kudzu” was working under Mab’s orders.  Having been deemed “sufficient” and since she ordered someone to bring Molly in. (This tilts my theorizing away from the theories that he was a nemesis agent, since Mab was actively trying to recover from nemfection in her ranks when she assigned him.  But that's not a given.)
now see, I've never thought these were mutually exclusive.*upon farther thought, it's my belief mab intentionally puts things in harrys sphere of existence knowing full well they may or probly are Nfected. Besides this, we know Cat Sith. But what purpose did mab have putting the eldest of his race to work as harrys batman when any other could have worked? I can't remember the difference between watsonian and doyalist but considering that precise character becomes a threat in the very same book, I find it highly likely she knew and wanted them to cross paths* Mab sent the fetches to do just that, fetch. But did she? The captain says he has worked for the queen of whatever since before human memeory, but if before human memory consigns one to oblivion, how is this possible? He referred to the original. This is a case of the embalance causing MW to release that which was contained beyond intentionally, to preserve a balance when necassary(at the time mab had the WK locked up... Locking up an element of the winter court that is supposed to have freedom of Will was why the fetches were sent at all I think, otherwise the winter knight could do) Also, as the fetches are one of the only fairy creatures who possess no body on the mortal plain, they lack that 'soul' or choice related to being part mortal, they were set up that way to eat the Nfection that can be perceived in PG that Molly hasn't had to deal with since, cause they ate that Nfected bit of soul right before Harry got to the top of the tower. Case  in point, mouse's reaction to Molly when N is potentially present, or fearbringer specifically. The whole explaination for how the fetches are summoned shows
1 anything on par with... And I can't remember if the lady qualifies or not... The queens can Breach the NN from the other side,
2 beacons are a must, having something to guide oneself.
Might add a few more after I go back over...
But from what we now know of outsiders and N, there is a fearbringer, Molly was set up to use fear, to become a fearbringer.... They made her into the beacon for the outsider to find his way back, add on the mortal magic of change and yea. Same being in both PG and CD. Pretty sure both the scarecrow and FB both had a moment of recognition with Harry too.
Simple to think one of the outsiders allies goals is to reintroduce these things as part of reality. Ties into the idea Molly's 'fearbringing' helped form the mask FB actually uses to exist in CD. It's like the mirror, it mirrors things incompletely and not entirely accurately but FB has the same form and function of Scarecrow. Like a shadow/mirror... Also, scarecrow in batman is called the master of fear and was actually 'something' crane(can't remember his first name off of top of head, edit in later!) who madrigals identity pays homage to as Darby crane. Also connected to ichabod crane from sleepy hollow, a story that had his own fearbringer of sorts. So all these elements connect, right down to Harry being the metaphorical and literal batman lol.
I haven't gone over all this in a couple years, nobody seemed to notice when I did then though... So if it seems incomplete or you have questions, then shoot. I might not have the right answer, but chances are I got something...
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2)  Summon the Murk during the Phage attacks
A, the cold nature of the Murk wards in these attacks screams Winter
B, Harry does briefly sense something familiar about the magic involved when he reaches out towards it

Negative:  It's hard to imagine Harry submitting to casting a spell that would facilitate the carnage the phages were wreaking, and also the blowby damage that was done by the confused people.
your forgetting one key element TTH has to make sure of, his concurrent alterations do not end in the premature death of Harry himself and other unwanted effects, like Molly going bad, getting killed, ect. Same reason Thomas seems to follow him in the background after the 'LC incident'. Been awhile again... But if you notice by the time Harry arrives past the murk he's no longer afraid of the fetch, he's pissed directly because of the mayhem those extra seconds caused. So this is one more 'stop past self from dying' action that was actually all caused by an alteration of time regardless of if time travel Harry did it or GK, the moment Harry learned of black magic early it changed everything that had been going to happen, but the effect had to be controlled to keep it from ending up worse. Also not certain but
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4)  Probably something big at AT before the PG dungeon crawl party showed up.
To be honest, the main reason why think TTH was involved in the battle PGH saw the aftermath of is because I really want some closure on what happened here, and this is the ideal way to get it.  I WANT I WANT I WANT.  There maybe if I say it loud enough I'll get it.  (Griff has pointed out to me that Jim has promised us more story about what happened at AT)
if TTH did it, then the current 'cascade' had Harry becoming a denarian, which from MM seems likely enough. This would also explain mabs anger at Harry over the assault, her seeming double ontondra to me, implying one day he himself would pay, not for the second assault, but for the first one he may have done... Can't take balance on someone who hasn't done what they did yet I think...

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5)  Fix Little Chicago the morning of the 2nd day, while Harry was out of the Appt. at the Hospital with Murphy, Bob, and Mouse.
Evidence for TTH kinda stacks up, not that there aren't alternate possibilities.
See my LC fix timing topic linked in the background post above for the evidence as to the timing
TTH was intimately familiar with LC.  And had the chops.  And knew it was there.  And could get in (not as big a deal).  All those things listed at the end of PG.
I have felt deep down for a long time that if TTH did it, he did it because a functional LC was absolutely vital for him to do something HE needed to cast a spell for.  This binds LC's fixing tightly to the "tropish TTH goals"
The Mystery of who fixed LC becomes necessary to preserve the space time continuum!
I'll just keep adding things to this post as I remember them or find the pertaining question in the first post, or if someone replies directly....
the cascade! Harry wasn't going to use little Chicago early before GK sent his note, it pushed up his actions and would have caused his death, so while future Harry could have done, current GK could have also if he was looking for echoes that he caused passing along the note... Personally, all the energy to one spot... Makes me wonder if TTH didn't arrive through it, it's basically I big focus for a time and place, Chicago, for only as long as the model was kept accurate, so thaumaturgically it could connect through time and space and be the 'dolorian' in question.
I'd think originally, he had given in to lash finally before he used it. In the current timeline he refuses in the moment...
Title: Re: Serack's Proven Guilty workup [Spoilers for the whole series]
Post by: Foxed on July 23, 2016, 09:45:15 PM
Has anyone ever compiled a list of all the stuff that is "off" in PG? Just a bullet point list of the things that dont add up to the rest of the series or dont line up with the events of the big picture?
After reading the series so many times, I kind of think that PG doesnt take place in the same timeline/reality as the rest of the series. Just to name one thing really quick: Why does the sign in Mac's say "Accorded Neutral Ground" instead of the "Accorded Neutral Territory" like all of the other books post GP?
Maybe Ill try to set up a list like that and post it on its own thread after reading it again...

Did you read my Proven Guilty Mysteries thread? I tried to answer most of the issues using PG and Doylist and Watsonian speculation (some narrative feel stuff, some knowledge from later case files).

I tried very hard to find a theory that makes more sense than TT Harry, but I did not. Time travel makes the most sense for that novel.