I am very curious to hear from Rashid after Harry’s expulsion from the White Council.  Would he have been involved in the “emergency Senior Council” meeting?  Or was that only The Merlin, Mai, Christos, and Martha Liberty?  He had offered to get Harry “reinstated” after his recesitation from his coma.  He told Harry at the Outer Gates to “if you want to help me keep doing what you are doing”.  I’m very interested in what Rashid will have to say about all of this.  Including what the “Stars and Stones” actually are.

Thing is... they were actually already planning to go to war, they just had planned another decade or two of prep-work before striking; their war-effort was unready, their early strikes less devastating than planned.  So (as he so often does) Harry's propensity for violence + investigation led him to act in ways too provocative for the Ramps to ignore, and they moved early.

I don't know how much she is trying to change him. He's a powerful agent without the mantle. With the mantle, he's likely far more powerful than most past Winter Knights. But that will and power...he's not an iron hand in a velvet glove, he's an iron hand in a spiked cestus. He is going to piss off Summer - getting the Lady killed will do that. He will piss off some other powers - like the Red court. Remember them? He causes trouble. But Mab will take the trouble to have his abilities.

I'm not sure Mortimer's "ectomancy" has the full scope of what the White Council calls "necromancy."

We've never seen Morty do anything that hints at zombies or corpses, that I recall:  soulless bodies energized by necromantic energy.  Nor embodying ancient beings with ectoplasm from the nevernever (as Harry did with Sue).  Mortimer seems to deal entirely & exclusively with the spirits of departed humans.

Maybe he could do these other "necromantic" things, but won't (because it violates his own ethics, or because it would get him a Warden-visit of the sharper-edged variety, or some mix of each); we don't know.  Maybe even Morty himself doesn't know, because he hasn't tried.

Lara would hope Harry brought Carlos, incapable of getting a date on his own.

It’s good cop bad cop with Molly and Harry. Molly is the perfect subject and Winter Lady, and Harry consistently, persistently continues to be Harry, a terrible subject but a wonderful Winter Knight. Molly mollifies Mab, Harry harries Mab. Both force change on her at a time when she needs to change. Their predecessors bad as they were merely helped reinforce Mab’s existing status quo. When Mab hired Harry back in Summer Knight did she expect this? Be careful for you wish for Mab.

I don't think she does want him to succumb. She wants him to fight it, and in doing so become a colder, more ruthless version of himself. Keep the will and defiance (because those are useful) and get rid of those silly useless things like Conscience and Compassion that reduce his effectiveness.