Yes, who others could it be?
let me be more direct, I see nothing in your perspective except ideas based on conjecture, and showing why Mab didn't react is only the doyalist answer, it isn't an in story answer for why it happened, the perspective I'm looking for.
The answer will never be enunciated in explicit terms. The attack as plotted by me would have consisted of one attack. The final one at Splattercon. The only purpose of that attack was to draw in Harry to kill Madrigal.
Nay, tis you who must be in jest? They set up an elaborate series of attacks, lining up a patsy with the same attributes as the killers, to point Harry at said patsy for his murder, only to have the real murderer show himself and fail to kill Madrigal while also clearly showing his innocence? That makes absolutely no sense to me. Coulda just sent the fetches to kill him to start. The only real explanation is it's a big soap opera set up for $hit$ and giggles then..
Surely you jest. The Damsel in distress? Jim favorite plot device. First Jim sets the emotional hook. The first trial. How sickened and unfair Harry feels it is. Enter Madrigal Raith White Court Vampire. Harry reads Madrigal as the culprit and kills him. Which came close to happening The White Council comes to town finds Molly and kills her. Harry dies trying to stop it.
surely, you don't think all the foreshadowing and future usage of Molly was all thrown out the window for PG to peg her as a mere damsel in distress? Harry doesn't get warned of black magic, doesn't look deeper, maybe dies sure, council never twigs to Molly, as the culprit was already accounted for and nobody on the council lacks Harry's prejudice to actually pay attention, in fact, they would count on Eb NOT being able to look past it. Besides GKs clue, from a possible future, nobody on the council knew about Molly's connection, getting the clue from the future, how he could act on it was likely limited anyway. So Molly, as fear bringer incarnate, gets away Scott free.
Arctis Tor was attacked to keep Mab from interfering in the Reds attack on the Council. With an added note. She knows that Lily and Maeve are close. So is Summer may be involved. All else follows.
not a valid explanation, and entirely ignores that she wasn't allowed to, it's implied she literally makes a deal, and as part of that deal she can't try to get revenge later for the specific turn of events. This is why she allows Lea such free reign when Harry gets her aid in his quest, this was directly stated
Molly was targeted because she was in the Juvenile Justice System. Which in Chicago is corrupted by one or the other factions. This was how Harry was disappeared as a child. And she was close to a Knight and Harry. An additional note if the White Court was involved it would explained how she was trapped. Perhaps by Madeline?
I have literally no idea what your talking about here, Molly wasn't in trouble or anything herself before the events of PG, this isn't a linear thing.
Mab can attack anyone as long as she doesn't do it herself. This should be obvious after Small Favor where she sends the Hobs into a train station full of people to kill the Archive.
prove it, any of that statement. We don't know who sent the hobs 100%, we don't know why they were sent, and we don't know how much control they'd actually have once there. The Hobs did Hob things and attacked indiscriminately. She didn't, and can't order anyone killed on a whim. She specifically has the WK to send after people she wants killed who are not affiliated with the courts or somehow in debt, course, with the WK on ice, it seems to me instead of chosing to act, some things are just set free to act where she'd usually apply direct action. But sending something to kill just anyone is directly against what we know they're capacity is.
And the fact of Mab and Maeve are tap dancing around each other is supported in the denouement.In as much as anything Jim does is straightforward the why of it all is also in there.
don't think that's accurate, just perspective. We know the queens only really act against each other to maintain balance. As shown in BG, they actually act in concert with the other, just in opposite. They were one upping their Nemesis, the player Harry doesn't know about yet there.
I suggested Uriel was moving in the background. The books are written out of order. But as is, that puts the attack on Arctis Tor after Harry speaks to Mab in Dead Beat. And her retaliation has to be withheld.
One final note about TT. Did Jim think it would be cute to have Harry or someone save him from his toy. Why did Lash stay silent during the first attempt but balk at the second. All the questions become moot if you speculate that Lash caused the flaw and that she used Harry to cause Bob to not see it. Even if none of the rest of the plan worked Harry was slated to die when he tried to use it.
really, really off topic and kinda confusing. But no... Without the message from GK he wouldn't have been in that situation of needing it yet, and Lasciel would have had more time to work on him. Don't think he was ever fated to die there, fated to fall perhaps.(although, alot of the TT specifically deals with stopping him from dying, it still works because they do so indirectly, without abrogation of free will and ergo fate. Aaand back down the rabbit hole...
Everytime the timeline changes the person whose come back from the future changed to match the results of time playing out on it's current course. The current meta playing out has Harry eventually taking up lasciel, which would be how he later launches the assault on Arctis Tor. This continues into the Raith Deeps when Lash sacrifices herself. Where Harry as a clear inversion of Nic, manifests lasciel as a giant flaming being opposite Nics shadowy manifestation. Changing the new timeline and how those who came from it manifest.
