Plot holes (spoilers included) in RotE

[Farseer]

It's been weighing on my mind and IN CAPITALS on my 'to do' list, I can assure you (I was even mulling over it at breakfast this morning, knowing I hadn't been back here *sigh*!) BUT I don't want to put it down firmly in text until I can get some true concentration time (that doesn't include trying to juggle heaps of other brain-draining jobs!). I don't know why, but the Rooster Crown stuff sends me into a spin...theories are fine but then you have to explain it so others can comprehend it!

I'll give you a tidbit though, and hope I can later come back and do a reasonable job of backing it up...feel free to discuss amongst yourselves in the meantime ...

I believe that Fool and Fitz have known each other many times before in other lives, in other forms. As I've said before, I firmly believe that it is Fool who is "the love that weaves its way in and out" of Fitz's life (and not Molly) BUT I think this love goes beyond the slice of their history that we have so far been made privy to...that this insight from Jinna is more about an on-going relationship between them that stands through time and lives and parallel fates/futures. Much of this is based on comments made by Fool throughout the books but most, I think, is hinged on the Rooster Crown and all of the events/characters relating to it, including Realder and the WP.

As for Realder's dragon, I agree with the Witted Bastard's second paragraph on the understanding of that part (as has been deduced mostly from what we have come to know from FF) BUT I also most definitely followed in AQ that he was a completely different dragon to that which was presented to us in FF. Two quick examples:

* In the stone garden/near the quarry etc, Fitz noted several times that Realder's Dragon was even physically situated well away from Girl-on-a-Dragon. In fact,

* Fool was already flying on the Girl-on-a Dragon's back when Fitz and Nighteyes 'awoke' Realder's dragon and realised only thereafter that it was both blood and the Wit that they would need to rouse them all.

In this, Syrocko is correct in that there seems to be a possible plot hole but, as previously mentioned, it may not be a plot hole as such but merely a show of increased understanding during the flow of events, or the Fool revealing certain points only when required etc.

I will hopefully be back not too far away but I suggest a re-read, at the very least, of *sprints off to get AQ* , ah, Chapter Thirty-Nine in the UK version Verity's Dragon. It doesn't have everything but it clearly shows that, at that time, Fitz and Fool understood Girl-on-a-Dragon to be a different entity to Realder's dragon . Gotta go!!!