Talk:Mavra/@comment-686000-20170416233402

Anyone else notice how inconsistent Mavra's character is? She talks a good game, and she definitely likes to show off that she's supposed to be all evil, but if you look at her actions from a big picture perspective it almost seems like she's actually trying to HELP Harry in her own way.

In her very first appearance, her actions are instrumental in preventing the destruction of Amorachius. If Harry hadn't been there the sword would have destroyed. She put him in mortal danger, but at least Harry had SOME chance of living through Bianca's assassinatin attempt (especially if you consider that the Leanansidhe was there). If Amoracchius had been destroyed, Harry would have certainly died at a later point and with the sword gone the world could have lost one of its greatest instruments of "good" forever.

In Blood Rites, her intervention opens up the possibility of Lara and Harry working together. There are soooo many ways Mavra could have killed Harry in that book if she really wanted to - in fact, the book keeps pointing out the fact that she's probably wizard-level hersellf. She also obviously knows enough about how the mortal world to employ flamethrowers (but not snipers? not veiled snipers? not poison or disease or...?) but it almost seemed like she set Harry up specifically to burn away the hand with Lasciel's sigil in it. She even comments on the fact in Dead Beat.

Finally, in Dead Beat she brings up the Heirs of Kemmler. Murphy was out of town so if Mavra hadn't brought it up chances were good that Harry wouldn't have had any idea what he was dealing with, and that he would have missed most of the action.

The thing is that if Mavra TRULY wanted Harry to die and for "evil" to win the day, all she really had to do was do nothing. You'd think a vampire would understand that. Instead, she goes out of her way to put Harry in dangerous situations which give him a chance to pull a win for the "good" team.

Personally, I think Mavra was once Margaret, or possibly just someone who knew her and is secretly helping out Harry from the sidelines much like the Leanansidhe.

For the record, "Mavra" is the name of a character from an opera who is pretending to be something else.