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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2024, 11:03:34 AM »
It is quite improbable for Lara to get pregnant, at least in theory. Perhaps Harry's magic could help with that. But I insist, in my opinion they won't have sex. Harry is protected and will try  to keep it that way.
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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #31 on: August 19, 2024, 04:08:58 PM »
It is quite improbable for Lara to get pregnant, at least in theory ...
Except "improbable" is very-far from "impossible"(particularly if Jim needs a story to go a certain way).
Remember:  every whampire of the White Court is an "improbable" pregnancy.

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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #32 on: August 19, 2024, 04:30:13 PM »
Except "improbable" is very-far from "impossible"(particularly if Jim needs a story to go a certain way).
Remember:  every whampire of the White Court is an "improbable" pregnancy.

 Don't think it will happen though,  didn't Jim say no more kids for Harry? 

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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #33 on: August 19, 2024, 05:28:30 PM »
Im i the only one who thinks that Lara and Harry are going to fall for each other and both of them will not release how the the other feels.
Before  you shoot me hear me out.
Lara already likes Harry according to the valkyrie. Harry considers Lara the most human monster he has met. Harry's crouching moron hidden badass thing is catnip to the ladies in his life. Plus nothing would make Harry more miserable than it. I mean just think of the angst

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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #34 on: August 19, 2024, 06:07:01 PM »
You're not alone, we're just in the minority.

Lara would make a great love interest for Harry. It would also solve his money and information contact problems. Jim might go the other way because Lara would make Harry's professional life too easy.

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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #35 on: August 19, 2024, 08:47:14 PM »

  I had thought early on that Lara was a good match for Harry, however I doubt that it will end in a happily ever after for them.
  The difference between Lara and Susan and even Murphy, is Lara fully understands that Harry is no ordinary man, he is a powerful wizard and she respects that power.  I don't think that reality ever fully sunk into either Susan or Murphy's head, I don't think they ever fully respected that power.
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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #36 on: August 19, 2024, 10:53:08 PM »
Except "improbable" is very-far from "impossible"(particularly if Jim needs a story to go a certain way).
Remember:  every whampire of the White Court is an "improbable" pregnancy.
Not quite. The improbable pregancy acute for women. That is why Papa Raith has several children. But even when they are very old, none of his daughters has a child. Neither does Madeleine (as far as we know).

  I had thought early on that Lara was a good match for Harry, however I doubt that it will end in a happily ever after for them.
  The difference between Lara and Susan and even Murphy, is Lara fully understands that Harry is no ordinary man, he is a powerful wizard and she respects that power.  I don't think that reality ever fully sunk into either Susan or Murphy's head, I don't think they ever fully respected that power.
I agree. I also like Lara as a character But she is a monster and Harry would not accept what she does.
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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #37 on: August 20, 2024, 12:34:09 AM »
... But she is a monster and Harry would not accept what she does.
This, I think.

Lara has to harm people to survive.  Likely has to kill people if she's to maintain her top-tier power... and getting deposed is likely a death-sentence in the White Court.

I don't see any way for Harry to be OK with this.

I think we're looking at a "professional working relationship," with some simmering sexual tension; but no intimacy.

I expect Mab knows this, and ordering Harry to "marry Lara" is (among other things) her way of ramping-up Harry's training.

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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #38 on: August 20, 2024, 12:40:00 AM »
Don't think it will happen though,  didn't Jim say no more kids for Harry?   

I do know that he said no more "unexpected relatives" (brother... grandfather... daughter... each of those came as a living relative, previously-unknown to Harry.  I think Jim might weasel a pregnancy (with child to follow) "doesn't count."

Technically.

Remember:  every little loophole Mab & Lea exploit, those are Jim Butcher's writing.  He revels in weasel-wording!

That said... I too think it won't happen.  He's written Maggie & Bonnie, and I think that suffices from an authorial POV, he doesn't need to add another child.

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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #39 on: August 20, 2024, 06:19:39 AM »
Don't think it will happen though,  didn't Jim say no more kids for Harry?

JB also said, more than once, that he wasn't going to kill Karrin or power her up.  He sometimes changes his mind, and sometimes his hand is forced by the flow of the story.

Not saying I consider Harry/Lara as parents likely, but I wouldn't absolutely rule it out, either.  Not when it could cause Harry so much worry and grief.

(I wonder, if Lara did fall pregnant with Harry, would she want the child to escape White Courtdom, or would she be fighting against Harry to make sure her child was immortal too?)


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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #40 on: August 20, 2024, 06:24:05 AM »
Im i the only one who thinks that Lara and Harry are going to fall for each other and both of them will not release how the the other feels.

I wonder if Lara's already been down that road in the past.

According to Thomas, Lara has a scar on her palm where she once tried to pick up the 'wrong wedding ring'.  Presumably one charged with love.  What I've wondered ever since then was whether or not that wedding ring was Lara's.  After all, we know next to nothing about her past, other than that she met Stacy when Stacy was young and wild.

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Re: I just had a funny idea (serious spoilers for BG, just in case)
« Reply #41 on: August 20, 2024, 06:02:41 PM »
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According to Thomas, Lara has a scar on her palm where she once tried to pick up the 'wrong wedding ring'.  Presumably one charged with love.  What I've wondered ever since then was whether or not that wedding ring was Lara's.  After all, we know next to nothing about her past, other than that she met Stacy when Stacy was young and wild.

Somehow I doubt it, unless it was a man's wedding ring and belonged to a long lost beloved husband.  I guess if she had been married, she could have continued to wear it until the true love that she felt or he felt caused the ring to burn her.  But you'd think that would be on her finger.