But did she? Technically Susan didn't die, the thing she turned into was killed.

Can Mab be soul gazed?  Yes, she is 99.99% Fae not, but what about that .01% that is still human?  What about the Mothers?  Supposedly they started out human eons ago, went the Lady,Queen,Mother route, did they simply lose their soul in the end?  Does that mean they are damned?  Or at least what was human to start with..

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Sounds to me like Mab is messing with Harry.  Knights have to be mortal, but Mab doesn't say Thomas is mortal, she says,""he is in love that makes him mortal enough for me."  She didn't say that made Thomas a mortal, but that it was enough.. Enough for what?  A bargain, she is hinting that she could make him a mortal if he'd agree to be her Knight.  But would she actually go through all that trouble?

Or would Thomas want to become that very ordinary mortal with the weak eyes that Harry saw in the soul gaze?

Does Molly still have her free will?

I think the Hunger Demon does fully dominate their host. Why? Because once the Hunger Demon has fully established itself, the host needs to feed it, i.e. usually kill, to survive.  Remember how Lara and later Thomas talked after the Skin Walker was finished with him, they enjoy it..  There is another side to the strength that the host gains from the Hunger Demon, power.  That is the most addictive power on earth..  Maybe because he was Margaret's son, Thomas never quite got to that point, he never was interested in empire building unlike his sister, Lara, who clearly is.

Yes, but I'm not implying that the human side of a White Court vamp is morally superior to the demon within it; and Thomas is an outlier, the human side is almost always corrupted by the drives of the demon and its need to feed.  What I am saying is that the human need to socialize and the desire of the host to fit in with uncorrupted humans to ensure its own safety, ends up deflecting the goals of the demon from shear destruction into something that seeks to protect humanity in general, if only for its own selfish ends. 

According to the Donald Morgan micro-fiction, "That bastard Justin DuMorne got to him before I could.  From then on, we could not be sure that the child (Harry) was not molded to be a creature of Nemesis."  "We" had to be The Merlin, Donald Morgan and anyone else they trusted.  Perhaps it meant the entire Senior Council; who were alive at that time, or just The Merlin's closest allies on the Senior Council.  It doesn't really matter.  It also doesn't matter that Ebenezar disagrees with the Merlin.  The Merlin, Donald Morgan and probably a significant portion of the Senior Council were afraid and are still afraid, that Harry Dresden is controlled by Nemesis, even if Harry hasn't been fully activated by Nemesis yet.

Unless Jim is playing a huge game with the readers, we know this isn't true.  We also know that Elaine tried to help Justin DuMorne enthrall Harry.  Elaine claimed that she was enthralled by Justin.  What if it is much more simple than that and Elaine was and is "a creature of Nemesis."  It also explains why Justin wanted Elaine in the first place.  Why train one potential starborn when you can train two of them.  Harry and Bob have both said that Elaine had more skill than Harry, just less raw power.  That may have made her a better candidate for Nemesis.

I haven't found the original WoJ on what it takes to be Starborn.  The birthdate is all most of us remember; and it is not just one day every 666 years, it is a period that can last a few months.  Something else has to happen.  I could be wrong, but I think the word I'm looking for is activate.  Something has to happen to activate an individual to be more than just have the potential to be starborn. 

Also, I bet the comments Jim has made about Elaine do not rule her out as being Starborn, they are just vague and do not say that Elaine is starborn and perhaps mildly suggest she isn't starborn.  On top of that, we don't know what the final ingredient is that makes someone starborn, but Elaine has had contact with a Queen of Fairie, just like Harry has.  It could be something a major player like one of the Queens, an Angel, Fallen Angel or even a Titan can do, to fully make someone starborn.  Titania may have chosen Elaine to be Summer's starborn in case Mab failed or for other reasons, but didn't know her candidate was tainted.  Lest I forget to mention this, Elaine is the main suspect; really the only suspect we currently have, for who nemfected Aurora.  It certainly wasn't Lea.   

From Jim's standpoint, Elaine being nemfected also explains why the idea that Elaine might be Kumori was set up.  It is a writers version of a slight of hand magic trick.  Create a distraction, a red herring that gets the audience looking in one direction while the real chicanery is happening elsewhere.   

Elaine claims she has hidden from the Council because she doesn't trust them.  It makes sense.  Elaine can see how Harry has been treated, but it can also be something more than that.  Nemesis doesn't want Elaine to reveal herself until the moment is right.  The moment won't be right until Harry is faltering for some reason, or being hounded by the Council to the point he is ineffective or at the very moment when Harry thinks he is facing the final big boss fight one on one.  Plus, keeping Elaine under wraps keeps the White Council looking in the wrong direction, looking at Harry, not knowing he is a distraction and is actually the starborn they need if the want to fight Nemesis. 

Finally, Elaine might not consciously know about Nemesis.  She might believe that Justin enthralled her and she came out of it when Harry killed their teacher.  At the moment Justin DuMorne died, Nemesis relinquished full control of Elaine to reassess the situation and decide on it's next course of action.  Eventually, Nemesis suggested Elaine go to Summer for help and gave her the means to nemfect aurora.  We may find that Cowl physically gave Elaine what she needed to do the job, but Nemesis is what drove Elaine's actions.

I remember her saying that, but one has to wonder how did she arrive at having that opinion?  Until he killed Justin, was arrested by the wardens and went on trial before the White Council with a sack over his head, Harry had never heard of the White Council.  For whatever reason Justin taught him nothing about that body, you'd think Justin would have kept Elaine in the dark as well.  But did he?  If we can believe Elaine after Harry killed Justin she fled to and hid in the Summer Court for a period of time, was her opinion of the White Council formed there?  There is also the theory that it was Elaine who carried Nemesis to the Summer Court and infected Aurora.  At some point supposedly Elaine returned to the real world and attended college.  We know that Mort stays off the White Council's radar, was Elaine in contact with him?  Something doesn't track here, wizards unlike Harry don't advertise that they are wizards and don't talk about the White Council.  Yet Elaine seems to know about about the White Council, where is she getting her information?

I am not sure what you mean here, because when we first meet Martin, Susan was already infected and partly turned.  If I remember correctly, Martin knew about them, still brought her to town with him, it was a set up.

In other words knowing the chemistry, Martin made both of them part of his long term plans.  After Harry's rescue from Nic when Shiro took his place, Martin knew full well that Harry was weakened, wounded, thus vulnerable, he also knew what the smell of blood would drive Susan to.. Yet he had her take Harry to his place.  So while Martin may have warned Susan, throwing them together when biological forces were so strong coupled with emotional was asking for trouble.  Yeah, some common sense prevailed, i.e. Harry tied Susan up so she wouldn't outright kill him during their sex, but that doesn't mean he was in control, he was driven by his needs and the overpowering effect of the vamp venom.

 

It did end, remember Susan went to South America shortly after she was infected.  However that didn't end how Harry felt about her, he wanted to marry her.  At that point in time Harry still thought he was all alone, he didn't know who Thomas was and he still believed that Elaine was dead.  If you will remember he became obsessed with trying to find a cure for Susan, was in a deep clinical depression over guilt and her leaving at the beginning of Summer Knight.  I don't know if you have ever been there in your life, I have.  While yes, common sense says the relationship was ended and it was for the good of all, emotions play a stronger role, Harry is a sensitive guy and couldn't deal with it.  Easy to say the relationship had ended, but in practice, in Harry's heart it hadn't.  I say that as an older woman who did find that life went on, found my life partner after, but I understand all too well what Harry was dealing with.