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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months stuck?
« on: Yesterday at 02:11:41 PM »
that just means we are the ones behind scedual.....here let me help with the not so creative process....I wonder who cowl is.

Only one of the many loose ends! 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mac's Possible Identity
« on: February 03, 2025, 09:34:38 PM »
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"Of course you didn't," He said....
......He swept his gaze around the room, using his Sight, that odd, half-surreal sense that lets wizards observer the forces of magic moving around them.......
Morgan didn't let his gaze linger too long near Mac or myself, and then he nodded to himself, and called out, "Clear."

Ah... Thank you for clearing that up.  Here's my take upon reading that, I think Morgan already has a good idea of who Mac really is, he also knows more than likely that Harry is star born..  "He didn't let his gaze linger too long near Mac nor myself."  It isn't that Morgan used his sight on either Harry or Mac, he knew better not to, least he blow his mind from what he would see. Contrast that with what happened when Harry saw the Skinwalker with his sight, he had no clue of what he was about to see, and it damaged him. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: February 03, 2025, 06:09:51 PM »
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It's not a matter of "want" -- The Queenmantles are much stronger than the Knightmantles.
And Mab has been subject to one for about 1000 years.

Mab cannot help but punish Dresden's defiance; the demands of the Mantle are her ever-fixed mark.

  I think Mab has her mantle under control, that's why she is an effective queen.. She uses the mantle, it doesn't use her.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Speculation: Was Kemmler like Harry?
« on: February 03, 2025, 06:08:29 PM »
[quoteI don't think the Council knew how to kill Kemmler; how to bypass the protections Kemmler was using, the "mostly-dead-isn't-all-the-way-dead" tricks, etc... 1961 was them finally pulling out all the stops, not just "killing" him but applying absurd levels of overkill (not just force, but post-killing magical efforts to prevent all the ways of coming back).
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Oh I think they did, because when they did, as a team, they took him down.  I think it took so long because Kemmler was a Warden and then a former one and they have a hard time accepting that he could be bad.  No different from the fact at least half the Senior Council cannot believe that Justin had gone warlock.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Lash still be alive?
« on: February 03, 2025, 06:05:47 PM »
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Uncontrolled rage was one of the early signs of the Shadow getting into Harry's mind, influencing his actions.  We can say "But the Knightmantle..." and we can say "But watching Murphy die..." and neither of those is demonstrably "wrong" at all; but also, what if those are just "excuses" that Jim wants us to accept?

Yes, but his lover and long time friend had just been murdered before his eyes in a moment when his emotions and adrenaline were already running high aided by the Winter Knight's mantle in readiness for battle.. So you could be right, and I would agree if this anger came out of the blue or for the usual reasons that get Harry pissed.. However in this case it wasn't usual at all, also the Holy Knights are also Harry's friends and were trying to stop him from doing something he would regret... No different from when Harry stopped Michael from beating the priest who had kidnapped his daughter to death with a baseball bat.. There was no dark shadow of the Fallen occupying Michael, he just lost it because this guy had harmed his daughter.  Harry had lost it because he had just witnessed Murphy being murdered, and wanted to kill her killer.

What if?? is an interesting game to play, but the example of Harry going a bit berserk after Murphy was senselessly killed and died in his arms doesn't even come close.  Even if it turns out to be true as you say, this isn't one of the "ah ha" moments that prove that the dark shadow of Lasciel remains and is influencing Harry.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mac's Possible Identity
« on: February 03, 2025, 01:30:10 PM »
In one of the recent books, Harry tried to look at Mac with his "sight" to see his real identity.    Mac puts his hand on his eyes and stops him from doing it.   One issue I have with this is Morgan looked at Mac in one of the older books with his sight and never said anything about what Mac "is" or had any type of reaction.   How could Morgan do it but he was worried about Harry doing it? 

Either it's just an error with the writing and Jim not remembering that he had that happen in a previous book. Or that somehow Harry has better "Sight" than other wizards because he is Starborn???
 

I do not remember Morgan seeing or saying he saw Mac with his sight, I am not saying you are mistaken, I just don't remember it... Can you give a quote, book, and chapter?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Could Lash still be alive?
« on: February 03, 2025, 01:27:46 PM »


  We have a slight hint that she could still be alive because Harry heard her voice briefly at the end of White Night.  Or that option remains open for Jim depending on what way the story goes.

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: February 03, 2025, 05:33:30 AM »
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She actually likes his defiance... "finally," she says, "a knight who's worth the effort."

My point also, because Mab may like Harry's spirit, she doesn't want any crap from him, especially in public.  Because it is
a mixed message she is sending him.  On one hand, Harry is right, the last thing she wants or needs is a mediocre Knight, she wants one that can use his own head when needed even if it isn't exactly what she ordered. On the other hand neither Winter Mantle Mab nor human Mab can afford a openly defiant Knight because that would reveal weakness, something she dare not show.
When she says finally a knight worth the effort, she usually is speaking to herself or just to Harry. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Speculation: Was Kemmler like Harry?
« on: February 03, 2025, 05:19:27 AM »
I've always wondered if Kemmler was Starborn like Harry was.  I believe there is another character who is also Starborn as well, was it Nicodemus?  Maybe after being told he was, Kemmler tried gaining more power but went about it the wrong way.

So this is why the Council won't tell Harry anything about the Starborn stuff because they don't want a repeat.  Could be why they are so nervous of how he's getting his power from Mab..

This is due to my assumption that the Starborn person is destined to do something so Huge/Life changing and it just hasn't happened yet because all previous Starborn have failed..  maybe it's has to do with the Time Travel book we are getting in the future.  The Council knows a Starborn from the Future went back in time to fix something but they don't know who it was.  ?


I doubt that he was because he wasn't same age as Harry and I doubt he was over six hundred years of age.

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: February 02, 2025, 08:15:16 PM »
The "Queen" outranks the "Knight," and dominance-games seem endemic to Winter.
I don't think Mab can help herself.

OTOH, I think Mab has largely lost touch with her humanity.  Harry keeps surprising her, and she regularly underestimates (is surprised by) those who still have theirs, such as Lady Winter Molly.

Yes, as Queen, Mab does outrank her Knight, Harry, but when has a little thing like that stopped Harry?  No, she was giving him a firm lesson on who is the boss.

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: January 31, 2025, 07:15:29 PM »
In the bigger sense, did Mab change?  Or did she have a calculated reason to think that fronting as extra sadistic in her first meeting with Harry was a strategic route to getting something she wanted?

I think she knows who and what Harry is, but he doesn't know who he is, so she is establishing who is boss.

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: January 29, 2025, 03:10:23 PM »
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Mab is far more than just a vicious monster...but the Queen of Winter is a vicious monster herself.  It probably comes with the Winter Queen mantle.


  Or she has to appear that way to be successful in the fight at the Outer Gates? No, Mab isn't totally a vicious monster, at the end of Cold Days when her daughter was killed, it had to be done, she knew it and ordered it.. Cold vicious monster stuff, yet Harry managed to tease out a smidge of vulnerability in her about it, which she and the Enemy might see as weakness.  Kringle saw apparently that something had gone down between Harry and Mab and warned Harry never to expose this aspect of Mab to anyone if he values his life.  Kringle calls Mab a "proud creature," she prides herself on her image as a vicious monster.. So yeah, she might have hurt Harry out of spite, that's what vicious monsters do, but also to teach him and keep her image.  Mab's image is one of the things that keep the world safe from Outsiders.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Speculation: Was Kemmler like Harry?
« on: January 29, 2025, 02:54:05 PM »
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But we just don't have enough information to say for sure.   

That's the problem isn't it?  We have a lot of bits and pieces but very few of them fit together!  It's like working one of those zillion piece jigsaw puzzles, the kind where the picture you are making blends together so you go blind finding pieces that fit together over twenty or so books... Then just when you think you are getting some sections to actually fit together, your six month old Lab upsets the card table it's sitting on, :o then eats an unknown number of the puzzle pieces! ::) >:(  Good luck with inspecting his poop for surviving pieces.. ;)

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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: January 27, 2025, 03:27:23 PM »
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For that matter, we already know Mab is sometimes cruel for its own sake.  In her first meeting with Harry in his PI office, after they strike an agreement Harry thinks will protect him, she inflicts agony on his wounded hand again, and says point blank that it wasn't in response to anything Harry did or didn't do, thus their agreement didn't kick in.

As I remember it, Mab was teaching Harry a lesson, when she decides to teach a lesson, she teaches it well.  The lesson was that she can force Harry to obey her orders.  One that Harry learned to well that he was willing to kill himself because he didn't want Mab to force him into doing things that made him a monster.  It wasn't until Uriel's "yes, but," seven words that Harry realized that while Mab could force him to impale his hand on the letter spike, she couldn't change who he is, he is still Harry.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Speculation: Was Kemmler like Harry?
« on: January 27, 2025, 03:18:54 PM »
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If my speculation is right, post-Kemmler the Council is probably traumatized and maybe guilt-stricken over the scale of the deaths and suffering and horror Kemmler caused, and determined 'never again'.
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This theory might explain Maggie Sr. too.  Apparently Margaret had been a thorn in the Council's side for a very long time, but she still lived.  But if my theory is right, after Kemmler went down the Council was no longer prepared to tolerate such thorns, and the orders went out to the Wardens to hunt her down and kill her.  Lord Raith beat them to it, but we have it straight from Ebenezar that the Wardens were hunting her, not just watching.

My only problem with your theory is why the Council allowed young Harry to live?  Half of the Senior Council never bought that Harry had killed Justin in self defense, thus he broke a Law of Magic.  They all knew who's son he was and suspected that Harry might turn out like her.. Yet, they proclaimed him at 16, a full wizard because he was able to face off with and kill Justin a full wizard and retired Warden. After they did that since Harry was under age the Council handed him over to Eb under the Doom.. Yeah, Eb is Blackstaff, had orders to watch Harry closely and kill him if any signs of warlockness appeared, but if the Council really felt, 'never again,' why let Harry live at all?

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