Yes, Lash told Harry as much in White Night.  No, she didn't call him star born, that is a term someone else gave him... But she said..

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"It is relevant," Lash said, "Because of the circumstances of your birth--because of whyyou were born, Hary.  Your mother found the strength to escape Lord Raith for a reason."

She goes on to say a few lines later;

"There was a complex confluence of events, of energies, of circumstances that would have given a child born under them the potential to wield power over Outsiders."

She nearly confesses to Harry in Blood Rites what she did, I don't have time to look up the exact quote now, but in his vision of her in his soul gaze with Thomas, she speaks of her arrogance to do what she did in creating him.. In  Dead Beat his dream about Malcolm he also speaks of the unfair burden he and Margaret placed on him...  To my way of thinking that pretty much spells it out that they deliberately conceived Harry to be a star born.

Does that imply that Malcolm was complicit in engineering a starborn? I've never considered that before. That puts a different spin on his character for me. I've never really thought about Malcolm, to be honest, which is unfortunate now that I am. I always kind of chalked him up as a vanilla mortal who got swept up in a romance and found that the world was way more complicated than he thought. But if he was complicit, and there was something specific about Malcolm that Margaret was looking for...

If there's anything to the Five Points of Starborn Genesis idea, maybe it was Malcolm's spirit that contributed? Harry seems to get a lot of his altruism from his dad.

Lash's statement implies that Margaret got the strength to escape Raith in order to make a starborn; did she realize that Raith had Outsider sponsorship? Did one of her contact among the Courts show her the Outer Gates, and realized that the next generation needed a starborn to combat them? Maybe she understood that she'd never be able to make a starborn with Raith, and started looking for someone compatible?

Or—and this is a whole lot of conjecture—did she somehow find out about Nemesis, realized the threat it represented, and do everything she could to stop it? Maybe... after being infected herself?

Okay, this is just for fun, but ....

Toward the end of Ghost Story, there was a battle that was staged on the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise.  The Corpstaker was attacking the various quadrants of Molly's mind.

So, if it's Molly's mind, why was it a "cityscape" being attacked and not a planet or something?  And why was it (now remember we're in her mind) not the Romulans, or the Klingons attacking, instead of only being CorpseTaker?

I think Borg would've been thematically appropriate, considering Corpsetaker's abilities

No, other way around, circles work because their grounded, stable, ect. You could theoretically ground it on a shield, but Jim point's out that's crazy, but not Impossible. You'd just have to actually believe the shield a stable base to ground it on.
Need to find this woj again, it's only a yr or 2 old... should be written somewhere.  I know I read it not listened to it.

You mean, for example, if Dresden were to conjure a shield that was circular, he could use the edge of that shield the same way he would use a drawn circle? Am I understanding correctly?

I could see how that would be useful in some situations.

There could be another possibility.  Someone else stationed at Archangel is Cowl...  That they betrayed Simon, and aided the Red Court.  When it was said that Simon had defended himself from a Death Curse before, perhaps it was Simon's.  Simon targeted multiple targets, Cowl could have been one of them.

I hadn't considered that. Interesting idea, and perfectly plausible, though narratively it'd be kinda awkward to explain, I think. Imagine Harry uncovering Cowl's identity: "I know how Cowl is. His name is...Steve. Steve Crunderman," and then go on to explain his connection to Simon. It's possible, and it'd be fun to see Harry kind of stumble through an explanation like that.

Here's a question: what was there to know about the Reds that the loss of an expert was really that significant? Everyone knows their main weaknesses; faith magic repels them, sunlight unmasks them, decapitation and blood-bag-stabbin' takes them down. It seems like anything he might know that would be relevant is stuff the Fellowship would, too—locations of Red strongholds, common traits and hunting habits, stuff like that.

Not to speak ill of the fictionally dead, but I think Simon was just padding his resume, like I totally didn't do when I worked as a consultant.

Not a villain, but I want to find out what happened to Wizard Montjoy.

He was the one who was down in the Yucatan in Summer Knight, right? A "research trip," if I recall correctly. Which happens to be Chichen Itza's location. I forgot about him until just now. Well, someone had to figure out how to use the leylines and sacrifices to fuel a massive bloodline curse.

Dang it. Jim's making me see Black Council members everywhere.

I think the pipes coming out of it would "break" the circle.  Though this would be a question for someone like Bob, or Jim, I suppose.

Maybe. They'd be close enough to the circle to do it, I suppose. To me, that begs the question: Do circles have effective height in the Dresden Files? If it's something absurd, like, I don't know, seven miles, then I'd say it functionally doesn't matter in all but a handful of cases (such as, for example, when fighting a 7.001-mile-jumping-demon). Or is it mostly to do with intent? I think intent would have to have something to do with it, because otherwise tree branches and things a dozen feet off the ground could mess things up. That falls in line with breaking a circle being an act of will, right? So, if Dresden thought that the pipes would break the circle, then they probably would?

I'm in the middle of my umpteenth yearly reread; I really should have this kind of thing down pat by now.

Wouldn't the water running through the water heater ground out the magic anyway? If he left it on, there's no problem.

Or, you know, get one of those tankless setups. No tank to explode, no potential carbon monoxide, and you can have the thing far away.

Or, why not just install a circle around a water heater?

Mab doesn't seem like the type to write in a provision letting the losers get payback for losing a war they started, with a weapon they created themselves.

Mab, to me, seems much more likely to include language in the Accords to the effect of, "You brought it on yourselves."

I concur that restitution is unlikely.  They could arrive as part of the Fomor party, or they could arrive as survivors that are looking to get some minor Accords protection as they re-establish their Court, conceding that they're done with war and revenge.  Until they're not.

I was thinking more that the Fomor would use the Eebs, as the only surviving members of the Reds, as political levers. Consider what fining the White Council a weregild for each member of the Red Court Harry killed as a result of the curse would cost. Harry did point out that the economic power of the White Council was one of their most effective weapons. This could bankrupt them, even if Harry doesn't personally have to pay for it. Though it would be kind of funny if he had to immediately lose all of the diamonds he just acquired from Skin Game because of a supernatural legal case.

Does Mab actually get the final say? I think she might, but I think the other signatories' opinions might matter. I'm not really disagreeing, I'm just unsure what the arbitration process is for the Accords. Is there a vote? A jury trial, or an opportunity to one? Is Mab essentially the Supreme Court?

Anyway, my overall idea wasn't that the Eebs would press a claim, but that the Fomor, if they had them smuggled out, might use them as witnesses to level charges at Harry, the White Council, and Winter. Think about all of the Reds that (being monsters aside) were minding their own business in Paris or Athens when their hearts exploded out of their chests. Ditto to all of the half-turned ones who died; the same argument for claiming the ladies of the Ordo and the lesser talents as part of the White Council's legitimate interests (which allowed Harry and Ramirez to challenge the whites to a duel) could be made of them, and they never necessarily committed murder. Countless within the Reds' sphere of influence who had absolutely nothing to do with the bloodline curse were killed because of the assault on Buffalo Chicken Pizza.

Super unlikely, sure, but I'm not a lawyer and I could make those arguments, and sympathizers and appeasers like Cristos could sway opinions enough for it to have a real impact. I think it would actually be pretty interesting if that happened, if for no other reason than the Eebs were pathetic excuses for villains, and their affect on global politics in the supernatural community could be way, way out of proportion with their abilities and actual contributions.