Sorry I am rambling this morning, but these squirrels are finding their way onto the exercise wheel
of my brain..
1] We know that Morgan was aware of Harry from the get go and what he was supposed to be..
So did he keep quiet at Harry's trial when he was sixteen? If so. Why? It cannot all be because he fell into Justin's hands.. In fact all the more reason to push for the chop..
2] At the trial they must have known Harry was the son of Margaret, but were mostly ignorant that Eb was his grand father? Why promote Harry to full wizard while still a minor? Overlook sort of that he broke the First Law, putting him under the Doom in the hands of the Blackstaff.. Oh yeah, Eb had orders, watch him, kill him if need be.. If he was going full warlock? Some thought he already had, or for signs that he couldn't be controlled? Did being Blackstaff mean that Eb was immune from suffering the same fate as Harry if he went bad? There were some as late as Summer Knight who were still calling Harry a warlock, how come they weren't demanding Eb's head as well?
So in effect was Harry's trial a sham to cover up the fact that they lost control of him and the experiment back when Malcolm died and Morgan failed to keep track of him? Also the cover up
continues because they still thought up until Battle Ground that they could still use Harry.. Now, like Kemmler they fear he has become too powerful, so after the Battle of Chicago they set up a kangaroo court to convict him, sort of, they still want to control him... Good luck with that..
I just reread Morgan's microfiction. Morgan knew that Ebenezer was Margaret's father. I would assume that whatever Morgan knew, Arthur Langtry also knew. In that very short story, Morgan told Luccio why he hounded Harry, and from the way he worded it we can safely assume that Captain Luccio already knew that Ebenezer was Harry's grandfather. Donald Morgan wasn't revealing a hidden secret; the tone of his words was very matter of fact. Also, from these words, "
I cannot be sure that he is not the monster we all fear, in the process of being born." it appears Captain Luccio already knew most of the story, Warden Morgan was just filling in a few details and his personal feelings on the matter.
Going back to a point I made in another post, Martha Liberty said of Harry to Ebenezer, "You know what he was meant to be." Rereading the scene in Summer Knight where the Merlin and his allies are about to throw Harry to the wolves, Senior Council member LaFortier was especially harsh, almost as if he had a personal grudge against Harry. Seeing as they barely knew each other, perhaps a more logical explanation is LaFortier saw an opportunity to get rid of a past mistake.
So the Senior Council; or at least most of its members, discovered or were told about Harry and what he was meant to be, before Harry was even born. I think that after Margaret LeFay's death the Senior Council wasn't certain about what to do with Harry, after all there was no way to know if he would become a wizard or vanilla mortal, but Morgan said that he tracked Malcom and Harry until shortly before Malcolm was murdered. To put it another way, the Council had Morgan keep track of Harry for them.
What if the Senior Council, or at least a majority of it's members, decided it was too dangerous to wait and see if Harry had any magical talent? What if they decided to act in order to make certain they controlled Harry's potential? Warden Morgan was too morally stiff to be a part of such a corrupt enterprise so he was sent on a mission to keep him occupied. The Council has someone who can break the Laws of Magic, when it needs to be done. Only it was all for nothing because Justin got control of Harry. That's the secret the Senior Council is covering up. They ordered Malcolm Dresden's death and at the same time failed to get a hold of Harry. They're not just murderers, they're inept murderers.
OK, I've just laid out a WAG that Ebenezer killed Malcolm Dresden at the behest of the Senior Council, and if you want to poke holes in that idea, that's fine. However, I just thought about something that might be evidence for this WAG. In his final journal entry Warden Morgan says, "
Malcolm died while I was on mission elsewhere. I arrived less than ten hours after the child went into the foster care system, and someone made him vanish. Magically, physically, bureaucratically. There was no trace of him, and I searched for years."
But in Peace Talks didn't Ebenezer admit to Harry that he allowed Harry, or made Harry, disappear into the foster care system in order to keep him safe? Almost like Ebenezer was there when Malcolm Dresden was murdered. Eb almost would have had to have been there in order to make Harry disappear so quickly and completely. (Now I'll have to dig up my copy of Peace Talks and reread that conversation. I'll do it tomorrow.)
P.S. The only person who didn't lose track of young Harry was Lea. She guarded Harry from attempts on his life from the Nevernever, so of course she witnessed what happened. From Harry's memories it appears that Lea visited Harry while he was in the orphanage. At some point; probably shortly after Harry's magic manifested, she makes a deal with Justin DuMorne and he becomes Harry's magic teacher. However, that's another story.
