Talk:Starborn/@comment-174.110.17.139-20170110114733/@comment-63.131.213.100-20190223073635

Doesn't track. If he was, Harry wouldn't be able to surprise him, but he clearly has. Go back and check the exchange they had on the island, when the Gatekeeper wonders if Harry's truly ignorant or the most fantastic liar that he'd ever seen--AND his lack of awareness of Harry's intellectus/connection to the island.

Also, if the Gatekeeper were Black Council, the Outsiders would already have won. He could have screwed up things on purpose at the Outer Gates and just let them in at any point, even if it was only smuggling. He's far too supportive of Harry, who's thwarting the Outsiders, and McCoy has had decades to feel him out, but still trusts him with the blood relation to Harry.

And finally, no, Harry's not the original Merlin. Skip back to the guy with the British accent in the caves below the island where Harry's running at the beginning of Skin Game. "Someone who belongs here." Ol' Merlin locked himself up because he realized that he had begun to lose control of the power he had amassed in order to build the containment facility under Demonreach. He's clearly not some future Harry who travelled back in time--the accent, plus having to reflect on the idiomatic "Piss off."