History Characters / TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold

* MundaneUtility: In ''Peace Talks'', Bonea uses all the knowledge at her disposal to help her sister Maggie make pancakes
* NoSell: As a creature formed from Harry's essence, Mab warns that it would sail right past any protections around his loved ones. The fact that she's genuinely innocent and just looking for help is also part of the reason why any wards would have no effect on her.

* SuperiorSuccessor: In a sense, she's this to Bob; Being what amounts to the offspring of a FallenAngel, unlike him she can make [[LeapOfFaith Leaps of Faith]] and and has even ''more'' metaphysical power to throw around.
* UnskilledButStrong: Bonea is immensely naïve and completely unaware of how the world works (unlike Bob, who is several centuries old at the ''youngest''), she's only existed as an independent conscious entity for a few months at most after she's "born" at the very end of ''Skin Game''. However, she's also terrifyingly powerful due to have all of the knowledge and memories of a FallenAngel.

* WalkingSpoiler: ''No one'' expected her existence and for Harry to be pregnant since ''White Night''.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Being a spirit of intellect, like Bob she can be presumably destroyed by exposure to direct sunlight.

[[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]], '''Harry's Household''', [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]]]]]

Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry's household.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]

* FluffyTheTerrible: Mouse has a bark that crosses dimensional borders, shrugs off bullet wounds and being hit by a speeding van, and is a credible physical threat to a high-ranking fae. Luckily, he's also loyal, compassionate, and possibly more intelligent than his owner. Anduriel, Nicodemus' Fallen, has demonstrated fear of Mouse on multiple occasions. Mab, the Winter Queen herself, treats Mouse with utmost civility, bowing to him and calling him Guardian. This is considerably more respect than she gives Dresden himself.
* GeniusBruiser: A fully sapient dog who's smart and perceptive even by human standards, is more well-versed in supernatural lore than one might expect, and is frequently mistaken for a small bear.

* BigFriendlyDog: As one might expect from a dog who's an actual supernatural force of good, he's one of these except for the "dumb" part (which is all ObfuscatingStupidity), and plays it up to make himself less scary to people who meet him. In particular, as a puppy he was able to win over Murphy who described herself as phobic about large dogs.

** After Harry's death, he is inherited by Maggie and in ''Skin Game'' it's revealed that they rarely leave the other one's side. Maggie still suffers from panic attacks after her kidnapping, but Mouse's presence is able to sooth her. Officially, Mouse is her medical dog for panic attacks, and thus allowed to be with her even in schools.

%%* DeadpanSnarker: As his narration in "Zoo Day" indicates, this is something he picked up from Harry.%%What is? How?

* GutFeeling: He can sense dark energies, and describes them in this manner.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Very. Being a spirit of intellect doesn't change the fact she's only a few years old which make her something akin to a newborn when compared to beings like Bob.

* FallenAngel: She's basically the ''child'' of one, and has all of the Fallen Lasciel's memories and knowledge.

* TrueNeutral: [[invoked]] InUniverse, she has this morality by default as a spirit of intellect. According to WordOfGod, she's like Bob in that her morality is only limited to that of her current owner (i.e., Maggie).

* BigFriendlyDog: He's one of these except for the "dumb" part (which is all ObfuscatingStupidity), and plays it up to make himself less scary to people who meet him. In particular, as a puppy he was able to win over Murphy who described herself as phobic about large dogs.

* EvilDetectingDog: Mouse has had a keen sense of malevolence since he was a pup.
** He is first introduced to the readers by barking at a Black Court vampire trying to ambush and SpeedBlitz Harry and Thomas. He sensed Inari's developing succubus side and barked a warning and sensed the "guard" Harry met wasn't human either. Later on, Harry comes to notice his deep resonating growls as a good warning about. Even the hint of mortal black magic is able to be sensed by him, such as his first meeting with Molly after she used [[MindControl mind magic]] on her friends.
** It does not need to be magical baddies either. Mouse isn't too fond of [[HateSink Caine]] or [[TheDon Johnny Marcone]].

* GeniusBruiser: A highly intelligent dog who has a pretty good understanding of magic, and weighs about 200 lb.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: She has a book on Creeps, supernatural creatures only children can see and whom the children forget when the grow into teenage and adulthood. The book was written by the Carpenter children, each one passing it to the next and eventually forgetting about the book entirely, starting with Molly, all the way to Harry Carpenter, who gave it to Maggie. It details the various types of Creep they encountered and how to defeat them.

* CoolPet: A holy empowered 200-lb+ beast that could simultaneously snap a man's neck and tear out his throat with ease, maul a White Court vampire into LudicrousGibs, threaten a high-ranking fae and be taken seriously, and scare Anduriel, the captain of Lucifer's guard, but then become the most loving and affectionate puppy, despite his size, to his master and friends. Also, he can read and follow bike assembly instructions better than his master.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Due to witnessing the murder of her foster family, she has something akin to PTSD, and she has issues with crowds and big open spaces which makes her "spazz out" in her own words.

* MundaneUtility: She partly possesses her sister Maggie, as her part to help make pancakes in ''Peace Talks''.

* TheCutie: Was this until Arianna kidnapped her. Luckily, a couple years with the carpenters have helped get back there to the point she's a semi-well adjusted happy child again with brief moments of [=PTSD=].

** ''Battle Ground'' turns it UpToEleven, with him [[spoiler:being a key linchpin in Harry's binding ritual against [[PhysicalGod Ethniu]]. Bob forms a circle of power around Ethniu, and successfully matches wills against ''[[TheDreaded the Last Titan]]'' long enough for Harry to bring [[AlwaysABiggerFish Demonreach]] into play so he can shove her evil ass down into The Well to rot for the rest of eternity]].

* HappilyAdopted: As of ''Ghost Story'' is now living with the Carpenters with Mouse as her companion. After meeting her father, she moves in with him in-between ''Skin Game'' and ''Peace Talks'' though Maggie still loves the Carpenters very much and is always welcome at their home.

[[folder: Maggie Dresden]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: For the same reason as Demonreach. She helped the GeniusLoci and Mab keep Harry's body metabolically active while he was dead.

* MrExposition: His general role in most stories. Harry either needs information, information translated, or Bob to go gather information. His knowledge is extremely extensive. In ''Cold Days'' he was shocked when Demonreach's glyphs were beyond even him.

* ADayInTheLimelight: He's one of the main characters in "Zoo Day".

* ADayInTheLimelight: She's one of the narrators and main characters of "Zoo Day".
* AmbiguousDisorder: Due to witnessing the murder of her foster family, she has something akin to PTSD, and she has issues with crowds and big open spaces which makes her "spazz out" in her own words.

* AbsenteeActor: He doesn't appear at all in ''Literature/PeaceTalks.''

* MadeOfIron: Shrugs off being hit by a speeding van, and considers being shot a minor inconvenience. It's also noted that Temple Dogs have much longer lifespans than normal Dogs, making it likely that Mouse will be around to protect Maggie for longer than a normal human lifespan at least.

* TookALevelInBadass: Temple dogs draw their power from a home's threshold; as Harry's apartment doesn't have a very strong one, his own power was limited there. Although he learned a few ways around the limitations, after moving to the Carpenters' "[[http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/13iexg/hi_im_jim_butcher_im_the_guy_who_takes_credit_for/c74icnd he went from Thing to Hulk when he moved in to protect Maggie]]".%%Best shown when, in ''Skin Game,'' he terrifies ''Anduriel''.

* MadeOfIron: Shrugs off being hit by a speeding van, and considers being shot a minor inconvenience. It's also noted that Foo dogs have much longer lifespans than normal dogs, making it likely that Mouse will be around to protect Maggie for longer than a normal human lifespan at least.
* MakeTheDogTestify: A nonverbal version. Towards the end of ''Turn Coat'', Mouse's testimony is instrumental in bringing a villain to justice by identifying his scent. It helps that this is a court of wizards, so "my dog can identify the culprit" is not ''quite'' so blink-inducing, particularly since most of the Chinese wizards can and do identify him as an intelligent, [[EvilDetectingDog evil-detecting]] temple dog.

* GodsHandsAreTied: Mouse is a temple dog, and apparently some sort of rules prevents him from intervening when Haunts hunt a child. So long as the Haunts do not get ''physical'' with their prey, at which point they would break the rules and become fair game for his intervention.

* HalfHumanHybrid: A dog variant. Mouse is a temple dog -- part mortal canine, part Chinese guardian spirit called a Foo dog.
** As revealed in ''Changes'', his pedigree may be even more purely spirit than that; one of the characters refers to him as an ''actual'' Foo dog. Ancient Mai also calls him a Foo dog, and the Eebs refer to him as an "ice demon" from "the land of dreams" (aka Tibet).

* AsianLionDogs: He's a temple dog -- a crossbreed between a mortal canine and Chinese guardian spirit called a foo dog, bred to guard Chinese temples. It's implied that his pedigree may be even more purely spirit than that; the wizard Ancient Mai describes him simply as a foo dog, a pair of vampires refer to him as an "ice demon" from "the land of dreams" (that is, Tibet), and in ''Literature/GhostStory'' the archangel Uriel calls him "little cousin". Either way, he's a tremendously intelligent dog with the ability to perceive spirits and a strong protective streak. In ''Literature/TurnCoat'', his angry growling at an accused wizard is considered enough to assume the latter's guilt. Temple dogs also bond to homes and other living spaces and draw their power from their threshold, a magical barrier created around a home by the memories and bonds of the people living there; Mouse is noted to have gained a significant upgrade in power when he moved from Harry's apartment to the Carpenter family's household.

Harry's dog, acquired accidentally when Harry was hired by a Tibetan monk to retrieve a litter of Tibetan Foo Dog puppies from captivity. Mouse accidentally got left behind, and Harry couldn't get in touch with the monks to return him. Harry named him Mouse because he was small, grey and quiet... and the last line of the book in which he's introduced is, "Why did you buy large-breed puppy chow?" He has since become a good friend to Team Harry, and later picks up guarding Maggie. He narrates the third part of the short story "Zoo Day".

* BlowYouAway: Downplayed example. In addition to "spirit of intellect", Harry occasionally refers to Bob as a "spirit of air".
* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Maaaybe . . . In ''Small Favor'' Harry notes that Bob is a being of pure thought, which, in a sense, all fictional characters are too, and that Bob may consider the characters in his romance novels to be kin. He even talks to them as he reads. He's also mentioned to Harry that there are other universes where "fictional" characters are real, so it's possible that he has trouble keeping track.

* DeadpanSnarker: To the extent that he can hold his own in SnarkToSnarkCombat with Harry. Then again, his personality is based on his owner.

* LiteralSplitPersonality: When accessing the memories/knowledge he gained under Kemmler Bob turns into the evil spirit Kemmler "twisted" him into. After this nearly kills or corrupts Harry Bob severs this part of himself. Which is great, now no future owners can use his knowledge for evil... except he severed enough knowledge to become an entirely new spirit, Necro-Bob.

* LovableSexManiac: Even though ''he has no body''. Among other things, he usually spends his time reading sleazy romance novels when he is not helping Harry. Bob explains his fascination with the naked female form as being a purely aesthetic appreciation for their beauty and grace...

** Literally. Bob has an expansive knowledge of all things magic, and somehow possesses the capability to understand the current state of magic and any changes to it that may have occurred.

--->'''Bob:''' [[TheInternetIsForPorn It's like ninety-percent porn!]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He sounds genuinely shocked and baffled when he's investigating the runes on Demonreach in ''Cold Days'' and actually doesn't understand what they mean.

* MissingMom: Susan Rodriguez because it was first too dangerous to keep her around while Susan was fighting the Red Court, and later dies in a HeroicSacrifice, saving little Maggie from the Red Court.

* {{Protectorate}}: As Michael puts it:

!!The Parasite/Bonea, aka "Bonnie"