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Errmmm... where does Harry suggest this?
This honestly holds together with a startlingly-coherent throughline.
Peabody, in this line, isn't "Black Council" but an independent power-seeking wizard (possibly an Outsider pawn); but not part of the Black(Grey) Council.
I don't have a copy of the text in front of me, so this is paraphrased. If someone could find the exact text, it might be helpful.
Partway through Twelve Months, Harry has a conversation with Mab in his apartment in the castle. In the midst of this conversation, Harry notes that Mab wanders over to one of his bookshelves and re-orders the books of the Chronicles of Narnia. Neither he nor Mab note this verbally, and to my recollection, Harry doesn't return to this point later in the book at all. What is going on here?
A few points to start:
1) I assume that Mab is adding information that was not previously present; that is, her actions are meaningful in that she is intending to communicate something. She is not randomly tidying Harry's bookshelf--that would be both out of character* and too trivial to mention as part of the narration, unless you want to postulate that this is intended as a meta-hint that something is wrong with Mab. I mention this last bit for completeness, not because I think it's plausible.
2) Narnia has two standard orderings: original publication order and internal chronological order. I would assume that the books started in one of these orderings (interestingly, both orderings are "official" in different contexts--you can find different editions with the spines of the books numbered in either ordering). If the new sequence contains extra information, the resulting order would have to be neither of these; I think going from one order to the other is too trivial to mean anything.
3) The clue could be a seven-digit number containing the digits 1-7 once each, as read from the spine of each book in the new order. Perhaps a phone number?
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* In terms of Mab's character, I believe that her every action contains both intentional aid and the intentional infliction of pain. In this case, both aid and pain would be quite minor (an obscure hint vs. the irritation of a disordered bookshelf), but both would exist.
Harry does say, I think in Changes, that dust on his summoning circle in his lab degrades its efficiency. In Changes he also creates a circle purely in his mind.
From this, I take it that intent and human will are close to 100% of the deal. Not quite, but very, very, close.
So the island is the source of the leylines and provided the energy for the denarians to create the greater circle to contain Ivy. I would hazard a guess then that it provided the power for Merlin to set down spells/enchantments to create Demonreach. We know from another quote in Cold Days that the energy that keeps people away is the body heat put off by the prisoners. I wonder if it also has tainted the leylines/well. Rashid warned Harry not to touch the leylines. Was it because it was too much power for him to handle or potentially corrupting due to the prisoners?
All that being said, as I am typing this, I realize that this prison was established by Merlin in the beginning days of the White Council. The White Council mapped the ley lines. It is possible that the prisoners are the original source of the ley line. Merlin could have created the prison and the ley line developed as the prisoners were added or he could have created the prison on top of an existing ley line and the prisoners supercharged it with their body heat.
Just you wait, it's only a matter of time until Harry defeats communism by making a giant statue of himself and butchers the evil pacifists.
What if Merlin is a Mantle? And no not like the title in the White Council.... though in thinking that, maybe Merlin is a Mantle that was forgotten (on purpose or by accident) but though lore/history the White Councile adopted it a title.