Are you seriously arguing that putting him up to be enslaved by an Outsider-aligned warlock, and then intervening in the last possible moment (or, rather, even later, to extract a very open agreement from Dresden, and then spending years trying to turn him into one of her hounds, is an example of good godmothering? What? She maintained her obligations in the ways most profitable to winter and requiring the least amount of effort on her part, that's just clear as day.
No evidence to Lea et al that DuMorne was fucking with Outsiders when he took in Harry.
An example of good faerie godmothering by
Winter Fae standards, specifically.
Like the QM said, its more along the lines of teaching and equipping the wolf cub how to hunt and survive a harsh world.
She was being his faerie godmother, not his human parent.
Even human parents would historically have their adolescent children hunt dangerous animals with melee weapons.
Dresden survived when well over 99% of his Starborn cohort did not live to see their third decade.
She's likely well satisfied with her results.
She maintained her obligations in the ways most profitable to winter and requiring the least amount of effort on her part, that's just clear as day.
Thats self-evidently not true.
If that was the goal, he'd have been a Faerie hound as soon as his father died until he was old enough to Awaken and then Lea would have trained him personally until he became an adult. Or she would have had some Sidhe lady groom him as soon as he entered puberty and lead him around by his dick.
He'd have been so entangled in Winter that he would have ice crystals in his hair.
The Leanansidhe kept him so safe and insulated from the hazards of the Fae Courts that Winter Lady Maeve didnt even see him until he was in his mid-20s. Maeve, whose first meeting with Harry in Summer Knight involved asking him for his firstborn.
That Mab herself only saw him at a distance via magic until he was
27.
Was it confirmed somewhere that Lea was the one who hid Harry after his father's death? I always thought McCoy was more likely for that.
Officially, word of Butcher confirmed? No.
But she's the only one who fits the picture.
She's the only one with the power and influence we know who could have pulled it off from everyone who was looking for him at the time. Both on the mundane and magical side. And we know that Summer managed a similar feat for Morgan as a favor when the entire White Council was hunting him in Turn Coat, so its in the Fae portfolio.
I dont think McCoy had the mojo to pull it off.
Nor would he have left his grandkid to be raised by the foster system.
Doesn't he think that he got power to do so by making a deal with Leanansidhe? The lesson of "you need to make terrible, horrible deals with cruel inhuman entities in order to have a chance of survival is..." profitable for Winter to have in regards to a starborn, but not, in general, something I would want to be taught to my child.
1)He didnt make "terrible, horrible deals" with Lea.
2)The lesson of "you are valuable" and "be wary of what deals you make" are critical lessons for every baby wizard to have.
If anything, the Leanansidhe didnt hammer that lesson into his head hard enough, since he sells three quarters of his own Name and almost a claim on his personal soul to a fucking information broker demon.
Yes, he did this AFTER Lea got those favors from him, under no duress, of his own free will. Like a fucking
dumbass.
I assure you that Chaunzaggaroth, demon of Hell would have been a much worse taskmaster than Lea or Mab.
