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Describe the fall of House Harkonnen.
Book 1 begins with House Atreides and ends with their fall; Book 3 begins with two chapters on Giedi Prime, and it ends with the fall of House Harkonnen. Things aren't going very well for the Harkonnens: Feyd is trying to replace the Baron, and though the Baron still finds Feyd's assassination attempts sloppy, the needle hidden on the young boy's thigh actually would have killed him if Hawat hadn't warned him.
Things aren't going very well for Hawat, either, who's still forced to help the Baron because of the poison he was given years ago. It's ironic that the Baron relies on Mentats for advice, but he refuses to give them...
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