Board Thread:Theories Discussion/@comment-25886565-20150812203149

So this occurred to me while I was reading her page today...

Elluka Chirclatia had the ability to tell if someone was a HER and cure them of it. So she could either sense it, or there was some other way she knew if the condition was present in someone. We know this because Irina says that the original Elluka would have been able to tell that Prim was a HER and cure her, something the fake Elluka/Levia didn't and couldn't do. So if Elluka could tell if someone was a HER, it's very strange that she didn't seem to know Irina was one...

One possibility is that Elluka couldn't sense HER just by looking at someone, and had to perform some kind of spell to test them for it. But this causes another question to pop up: Regardless of whether she met Irina before or after curing Kiril, she KNEW Kiril was a HER, and since it's a hereditary condition, it wouldn't be too far-fetched that his sister had it too. So why didn't she test Irina?

Another possibility could be that Irina lied her way out of it, either using her own magic to hide whatever aura would set off Elluka's "HER alarm" or claiming that she had already been cured (if we assume that the first possibility is true). But Irina didn't know she was a HER until after becoming a cat, so she wouldn't know what her symptoms were or how to hide them, and she wouldn't have any reason to refuse to be tested for HER, unless she honestly said something like "There's no way I'm a HER, so there's no point in testing me for it" (though given what we know about Elluka's personality, I doubt that would have been enough to get her to leave Irina alone).

So why do you guys think Elluka didn't realize Irina was a HER and prevent about half of the events of this story from happening? 