'I can handle it,' doesn't seem to cut it, but part of you does think you can handle it, that you can handle all this stuff, wizard, madman and Fallen Angels given enough time.
What do you do with the list of names and titles?
She might be right there, even though she knows dickall about the Dresdenverse magical community.
But she has no way of being sure that she can protect the people around her
Literally less than a week since Queen Mab's fetches invaded her family home and beat up her junior brother.
This is definitely something that affects her calculations.
Surviving an attack is scant comfort if they collateral your family or friends.
What do you do with the list of names and titles?
[] Keep it for Harry alone, he will try to investigate it until he has some other source to quote to the Council
[] Offer it to Ebeneezer, you trust the canny old man even on such short acquaintance
[] Offer it freely to the Senior Council, prove that you can be an asset they cannot deny and dare not move against
VOTE
[X] Keep it for Harry alone, he will try to investigate it until he has some other source to quote to the Council
REASONS
1) She knows and trusts Harry. She's known him for at least five years, since the events of Grave Peril.
She has Soulgazed him.
He has risked his life for both her and her family repeatedly; before saving her from Arctis Tor, he saved Charity from Kravos when she was pregnant with Harry Junior, which is why Junior is named after him. Her father knows and trusts Harry and his judgement. Two other Knights of the Cross, Shiro when he was alive, and Sanya now, trusted Harry and his judgement.
She has entrusted him with most of her occult secrets, and he has entrusted her with some of his, namely Lash.
Harry already knows that she has some form of intellectus.
YES.
2) We've met Ebenezer McCoy once, and we've seen him in Dresden's memories/temporal history.
We like him at first meeting IC, but we know literally nothing about the man, his professional judgement, or how he would react to such sensitive information.
We certainly have not entrusted him with any of our secrets besides "no longer a purely mortal spellcaster" which is by Word of QM obvious to anyone with magic senses; the self-contained Darkhallow that is an Infernal Exalt is apparently not subtle.
And Harry, the dude who knows him best, is outright expressing reservations about his potential reaction to this information.
NO. Not until and unless we know him better, or conditions change.
3) She doesnt know the Senior Council. Nor does she have reason right now to trust their judgement.
She knows that the head of the Senior Council is antagonistic towards Harry Dresden.
And she's been warned to keep her intellectus as secret as possible.
NO.
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Thomas Raith and Karrin Murphy both came to save her from Arctis Tor.
She owes them her life. She's positively inclined towards them, and would intervene to fuck with whoever fucks with them on general principles. She still isnt going to be sharing secrets of her power with them unless its absolutely necessary until she knows a lot more about their judgement and likely reactions.
Same principle here.
