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Originally Posted by Othello~

I sort of wonder this too . . . (spoilers for book nine)

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What doesn't really make sense to me is when other-god lost her powers. Did Haruhi lend them to her and decided to take them back or did Haruhi truly steal them from her? Haruhi's importance seems really suspicious to me at least maybe only Kozumi's side of the story.

In reality, did the other two factions treat her with importance that suggested that she was the only one to have such ability? Notice how Kozumi was the only one who never hinted towards the other espers agendas.

Were they hiding Sasaki's importance from Kyon on purpose? Why would they do that?

Sasaki had no powers anymore, why wouldn't they tell him of this when they were introducing Haruhi and whatnot?

Pretty confusing . . .

Spoiler for spoiler:

Keep in mind that we don't know how much, if any, of what the other faction says about Sasaki is the truth. She may never have had powers in the first place. The only "proof" we get, Kyouko's guided tour of Sasaki's "closed space", alost begs to be picked apart as an obvious mixture of incongruity and showing Kyon what he wants to see...

Even if it is true, there's no reason to suspect that Itsuki's Organization or Mikuru's time travelers ever even knew about Sasaki. They both share Haruhi's "advent" (for lack of a better term) as the real moment of their groups' genesis, as it created the time quake that shut off travel before 4ya, and granted powers to Itsuki's crop of espers. From an outside pespective, at least, Sasaki is not directly related to that event, if she is at all...

Personally, I think Sasaki is a patsy, being used because she's an old (girl)friend of Kyon, who is inarguably the key to Haruhi.